New Office
Fro the past month or so I’ve been doing a load of product photography for work, basically they want to reshoot the entire product range so that it looks nice and consistent as opposed to what we’ve been supplied which is all over the place.
Anyway, I’d been moving between my office and the training / meeting room where we had some benches setup with a seamless background, it was becoming a pain to have to set everything up and pull it all back down. We were also having dramas with computers as well.
Basically the boss came to me this morning and said, “how would you like to have the training room setup as your office on a permanent basis, we’ve got no training coming up anytime soon and I’ve got a setup in my office for meetings”
Of course I said, “Yes”
So here’s a couple of quick photos I shot between product setups, now all I have to is get the espresso machine moved up here and I almost don’t have to leave my office……though a window would be nice.
Canon 8800f Scanner
Over the weekend I bought a new film scanner, the Canon 8800f. It’s pretty awesome so far and to give it a test I dug through the cupboards at home and into my ‘archive’ of film negatives, slides, and medium format positives and negatives, and started scanning a bunch of stuff into Aperture.
I was pretty happy with the quality of the scan, specially considering that my ‘archive’ is just a cardboard box and most of the negs were just thrown into the box about 10 or so years ago. Bit by bit over the next few weeks I’m going to clean and scan the lot in an effort to digitise my library.
Here’s a couple of quickly thrown together photos from ‘back in the day’ that I’ve uploaded to my photography website Mathew Packer Photography.
Both photos were shot at Mona Vale on the northern beaches of Sydney, and the skater is Adam Luxford. Hopefully I’ll get more slides and what not scanned in tonight
Mathew Packer Photography update
Over the weekend, between scanning film, I also managed to get a load of updates done on my Mathew Packer Photography website.
About a month or so ago I scrapped the Wordpress installation in favour of Pixel Post which I found a lot easier to use just as a photography website, I didn’t want to blog with it or anything else like that. So finally after just using one of the default themes for the past month I finally pulled my finger out and customised it to display what I wanted.
As you can see from the above screen capture I wanted to display a single photo on the front page, and I didn’t want to stuff around with fancy graphics and logos, I wanted the photos to speak for themselves. I think I’ve achieved that.
While you can click on the photo on the front page and begin to move backwards through my archive, based on date uploaded, you can also ‘Browse By Genre’ which gives you the following display with a drop down menu.
And last but not least is the Biography page, there’s not a lot of information on there at the moment but I’ll have it completed tonight or tomorrow, and if time allows I’ll even throw up a mug shot of myself on there.
So as you can see, it’s a very simple setup with a really simple interface, but I feel like it represents my photography in a much better light than previously.
If you want to go check it all out you can do so at either www.mathewpackerphotography.com or www.mpimagery.com
Cheers, Matt
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