50 Examples of Large Photography Backgrounds within Web Design

March 25, 2010 - 43 Comments
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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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20 Comments › Leave yours

Beth McLain
25 Mar, 2010
Awesome.. Great Collection.
CreativePeople’s site look brilliant..
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lava360blog
25 Mar, 2010
amazing collection and great use of photography in web design.
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Callum Chapman
25 Mar, 2010
This is such a great round-up, excellent work! :D
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Lukas Hinsch
25 Mar, 2010
CreativePeople is awesome
Werkstette is also great.
really impressive backgrounds
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HTML Email Designs
25 Mar, 2010
Wow. Fantastic work presented here. Great use of photographs as backgrounds.
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Alex Flueras
25 Mar, 2010
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.
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Edgar Leijs
25 Mar, 2010
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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Divyesh Ardeshana
26 Mar, 2010
Gr8 Collection …
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SoHo
26 Mar, 2010
Very nice list! Also this one i design, full ajax/js site… http://www.glucone-r.com/
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Albert Lie
26 Mar, 2010
Great! I love David Mullett’s site
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Web Design Norfolk
26 Mar, 2010
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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Peter
1 Apr, 2010
What about the size and the time those sites need to load? Aren’t large photos a problem for useres with low-speed connections?
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thomas
1 Apr, 2010
http://air-pod.ch/
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Charmaine
4 Apr, 2010
A long and useful list of large photography backgrounds. Thanks.
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guccicn
6 Apr, 2010
cool design!
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gucci tote
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Penn workers lawyer
7 Apr, 2010
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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Azizuan
10 Apr, 2010
Great compilation. Thanks for inspiring. Keep it going.
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StudioA4D
4 May, 2010
Another similar website:
http://www.maskforbeauty.it
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Facundo Almeyra
24 May, 2010
TNX !
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e11world
21 Jul, 2010
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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