The Six Revisions site always seems to come up with intelligent posts which inspire. If you haven’t already, you should follow their tweets. The just put up a post called, “Excellent Examples of Using Photos in Web Design” and I’d have to say it’s a great collection. I read a lot of these “lists” each day for inspiration and most of the time, it’s recycled garbage, but I’d have to say this post by Six Revisions showing the usage of photography as the basis of your Web site design is great.
Using photos as a design element and central piece in a web design is a great way to get a point across to the viewers or to just add more depth into the design. We are going to look at some examples of two popular ways of using photos in a web layout: using a large photo as your background and using a photo as the central focus in the header.
You can read their post here:
http://sixrevisions.com/design-showcase-inspiration/using-photos-web-design/