50 Examples of Large Photography Backgrounds within Web Design

March 25, 2010 by Paul Andrew Design Style Series, Inspiration, Web Design, Web Inspiration

The first thing that springs to mind when thinking about large photography backgrounds within web design are of simple photographers portfolio website or even that of a design company. Upon researching this article, the surprising thing was that this type of background does not seem to have any limitations, it is equally suited to ecommerce sites, restaurant sites, web design agencies.. basically all types of web sites, as you will see from the collection below.

There is only thing all of these sites have in common, and that is good, creative and professional photography. The photograph itself is the focus of the site, with each having an overlay of content to bring the site alive and make it functional. Sometimes it seems as though the designers want you to focus more on the image rather than the content, such is the power of each beautiful shot.

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http://balgle.designerteam.info/ Beth McLain

Awesome.. Great Collection.
CreativePeople’s site look brilliant..
http://lava360.com lava360blog

amazing collection and great use of photography in web design.
http://circleboxblog.com Callum Chapman

This is such a great round-up, excellent work! :D
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http://www.hamburg-graphics.de Lukas Hinsch

CreativePeople is awesome
Werkstette is also great.
really impressive backgrounds
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http://www.htmlemaildesigns.com/ HTML Email Designs

Wow. Fantastic work presented here. Great use of photographs as backgrounds.
http://www.studioweber.com Alex Flueras

Excellent and very inspiring list. Thanks for sharing. I would also mention this site: http://vivace.webdesignbrasov.ro/ – features large image backgrounds that change at refresh.
http://www.edgarleijs.nl Edgar Leijs

Thanks for this collection. I really, really love large photo backgrounds! “Oh! Nena” is really cool! Lately I’ve done one myself: http://www.rickymontel.com/
I used Flash here because of the way it scales is superior. I haven’t found any script that can do the same way of smooth and correctly scaling… any tips?
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http://www.cagloo.com Divyesh Ardeshana

Gr8 Collection …
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http://www.glucone.com SoHo

Very nice list! Also this one i design, full ajax/js site… http://www.glucone-r.com/
http://www.albertlie.com/ Albert Lie

Great! I love David Mullett’s site
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http://www.design.tomgirling.co.uk Web Design Norfolk

I’ve been wanting to try a large photographic background for a while now – theres some great inspiration in that list.

You do have to be a little careful with the resolution for larger monitors though – I’ve seen a few websites with large background images that look awful on a big screen due to low resolution images….it has to be a stunningly good photo for it to work though!
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http://blog.kingpepe.de Peter

What about the size and the time those sites need to load? Aren’t large photos a problem for useres with low-speed connections?
thomas

http://air-pod.ch/
http://www.incrediblespictures.com Charmaine

A long and useful list of large photography backgrounds. Thanks.
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http://www.guccicn.net guccicn

cool design!

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The backgrounds images are all great in their own way. I found it interesting that some of the designs simply used the image as background while other designs interacted with the images.
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http://azizuanaziz.blogspot.com/ Azizuan

Great compilation. Thanks for inspiring. Keep it going.
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http://www.studioa4d.com StudioA4D

Another similar website:
http://www.maskforbeauty.it
http://www.almeyra.com Facundo Almeyra

TNX !
http://www.e11world.com e11world

I like this the best http://www.guiltybrotherhood.com/
Very well done for contrast, navigation and the images as well. Beautiful!
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http://jabberdust.ca/Jabberdust/Home.html Gavin Barrett

Big pictures, beautiful photography, great fashion. I think http://jabberdust.ca/Jabberdust/Home.html
has it all.
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Livia

Nice post!

Beautiful websites, what a collection! There is another good one, check it out:

http://www.martinscosta.com

Cya
- Hermione8
  
  I love the image and even though it is a little blurry on my wide-screen monitor, it has a nice effect. However, I really dislike the stark black nav bar across the center of the screen. It looks like the designer just threw it on there and left it.
http://zap.ee Zap

i remember when i found the GOTOCHINA site on my own some how, fell in love photography backgrounds since that moment, awesome collection, widens my horizons:)
http://homeinspect.com.au/ Kate Brisbane

I’m just starting out and these images are mind-blowing! Thanks for such great inspiration :->
xiaodong

very cool,thanks for such great
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Zey

There’s another good one:

http://www.beckdesign.de
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