Mathew Packer

And another done, Mathew Packer Photography

admin — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:21:55 +0000

Managed to finish off another website today, seems to be the flavour of the week. I wanted a really clean, uncluttered setup for my portfolio and I think I’ve achieved it with the new Mathew Packer Photography website.

Let me know what you think.

Spending most of the weekend in the studio, Cath’s away so I’m all on my lonesome. If you’re in Newcastle and you fancy a spot of modeling then leave me a comment.

Have a good weekend.

Matt

Daily Twitter Log, 2008-07-03

admin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 13:59:59 +0000

@gotbob true true, only problem is I already have too many jobs / projects. arghh. someone get cloning working properly, i needs me a clone #
Optus iPhone pricing just released.. http://www.optusiphone.com.au/pricing.aspx #
@techAU posted that a minute ago, still doesn’t load though. they are asking pre-registered customers to let them know what store they go to #
@elichrusos you and most of Australia, considering I cant get on their website. frustrating! 8gb is $0 upfront on $79 cap plan #
@jufemaiz wish I had of known you were shopping at B&H, I have referral codes, we could’ve split it. doh #

I’m With The Band get’s a redesign…again

admin — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:50:07 +0000

Had a bit of time on my hands this afternoon so I decided to give I’m With The Band a bit of a refresh, still got a couple of little things to tidy up but pretty happy with how it’s looking.

PS. If you’re using IE 6 it wont look like this image, sorry you’ll need to update to something modern.

Daily Twitter Log, 2008-07-02

admin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:59:59 +0000

why oh why do people keep scamming other people and claim to be ‘SEO experts’ seriously seeing so many business’ wasting good money on it #
@gotbob yeh true. i also see marketers fall for it as well, a well known / respected local here is perpetuating it but doesn’t understand it #

Daily Twitter Log, 2008-07-01

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:59:59 +0000

i keep getting the ‘twitter is over capacity’ message. seriously close to walking away as it’s getting beyond a joke #
and now paypal’s login system is playing up. the internets is slow and crap right now. #
i love fast shippers on ebay, 200 packs of polaroid film just arrived on my doorstep and I only ordered / paid on Friday last week #
@lexiphanic you just reminded me that I need to yell at Optus #
@lexiphanic who is your dsl with, i’m about to murder optus for reaming me so hard #
@lexiphanic @elichrusos thanks for the info, basically isp’s in australia suck. yay for us. #
even media temple is sucking today, trying to add a domain to my account and it keeps timing out. fail fail fail #

Here’s a couple of photos

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:35:34 +0000

These were shot on the weekend for some family friends.

Falling behind

admin — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:00:32 +0000

I’ve got so many little projects and things on at the moment that this blog is starting to fall by the wayside a bit. I think I’m going to have to write myself a big to do list as I’m just flitting around job to job at the moment and I’m not entirely sure I’m actually finishing anything.

Basically this downward spiral started with the stupid server failure I had, it’s been a complete chore to rebuild my blog and the other websites that were affected.

Enough whining from me, it wont get the work done now will it.

Here’s a couple of play around photos from a photo shoot I had on Saturday, enjoy.

Daily Twitter Log, 2008-06-30

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:59:59 +0000

editing some photos from the weekend. in other news everyone should go backup their websites and databases right now. #
heading out for lunch and to do the banking. #
@elichrusos yeh, lost a lot of data. kind of wondering if I can be bothered with doing the blogging any longer as well. wah wah wah. #
new Alkaline Trio album is freaking awesome #

MPM Studios, coming soon

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:45:24 +0000

Recently I signed an agreement to rent some space on Hunter Street, Newcastle, where I’m in the process of setting up a photography studio. It’s going to be a very basic setup, those tend to work the best with studios as you’ve then got more options to modify it each time you shoot.

Yesterday afternoon I spent a few hours in the ’studio’ painting the undercoat on the main walls to get rid of the horrid colours that were already there. I’ve got one more coat to get done before I would cal it ‘white’ and after that it’ll just be doing some final ‘tidy up’ work like removing the carpets and a little bit of patching work.

The above photo is from where you enter the space, I’ll be putting in some single chairs, a desk, and some rugs.

The below photo is where I will hang a seamless backdrop and have it setup as the main shooting area, though with the size of the area and all the different walls and what not I think there are a multitude of places to shoot depending on what you’re trying to achieve. I’ll also be taking in all the props and odds and ends I’ve collected that could be interesting to include in photos, as well as a bit of a library of my photography books and magazines.

If you’re interested in renting the space from me some time, or if you’re a model and would like to shoot with me, either leave a comment or send me an email via my contact page

Almost back

admin — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:13:54 +0000

I was away pretty well all weekend, and even when I was in Newcastle I was way to busy with painting and photography related stuff, so it wasn’t until this morning that I could try and resurrect my blog.

I’ve just about got all the articles back, but unfortunately a lot of the accompanying images are gone for good. Bit by bit I will try and rebuild them, but for the most part my blog is back up and running.

Anyway, better get back to it. Ciao.