our first experiment with video

FUN FREE ACTUAL LETTER FREEBIE OFFER:

we just got our gorgeous new business cards back from our printer. we love them so much we’d love to send you some.
{you can see our new cards here:http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=166251&id=83175182305&ref=mf }

you know what we also love here at Studio Promise HQ? LETTERS! physical tangible stuff in our mail!
So here’s the deal: become our fan here on facebook and then email us your postal address and we will send you some business cards and…
a special unique surprise for everyone!
your surprise could be a letter, a photo, a drawing, a post it note, a paperclip, a polaroid, something! anything! whatever we have lying around the office and the studio is up for grabs..
so what have you got to loose?
email us at smile@studiopromise.com with your name and address and we will physically post out a special unique something just for you!
offer is good for ANYONE IN THE ENTIRE WORLD!
just email us your details and we will get some magic in the mail to you!
tell your friends & enemies!
we want to send this out to everyone everywhere!
So:
Fan us up here: http://www.facebook.com/studiopromise
Email us here: smile@studiopromise.com
With your name & postal address.
Sit back and enjoy the letter!
SPREAD THE WORD!
thanks!

Newborn Gold Coast Shoot

we had a great newborn shoot with a wonderful family here in Southport last week. Our new little friend Elijah did not enjoy getting his clothes off for the pictures, and we can’t blame him, we wouldn’t like it either! But here is a quick peak of the shoot, this was the last set up we did on the shoot; simple one light on our black backdrop… we call this the Simba from Lion King pose! ha!

Photography Back Up on our Macs

long time no post!! we have been busy! lot’s of news coming soon…
in the mean time we have asked our head photographer DJ Paine to write about something we are passionate about: BACKING UP OUR DATA!

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Backing Up Your Mac’s….

hey all! DJ here, here is what we do at the Studio Promise HQ:

PHYSICAL Back Up:
Righteo! Hard Drives. at the moment you can get one TeraByte drives for $99 Australian from the mighty nerd store Umart
i have about 9 drives- 3 of them are what i call “master” drives that are kept here in the office, 3 of them are copies of those masters that are kept here in the office, and finally 3 of them are copies as well but are kept in a pelican case offsite {at my parent’s place to be exact}.
my drives are all “naked” off the shelf “internal” sata drives {i prefer silent samsung drives} – i do not have enclosures on them. instead i use a hard drive dock. at the moment i have a DUAL dock from vantec {once again from umart}

i also back up some “important” jobs to DVD {weddings}, but i am trying to totally ween myself off this practise… they take up too much space and are a total hassle to catalogue… but i’ll probably keep doing it for now.

CLOUD Back Up:
i have decided to go with BACKBLAZE for our online no brainer back up. Don’t be put off {like i was} with the stupid “i’m so confident in my online back up i can set fire to this 20 year old laptap i found at the tip” video they have on the front page. here’s the deal: it works with Snow Leopard, it also backs up my external drives and it’s cheap. if you want to use them use the coupon code “online10″ for 10% off – so that works out to a total of $45 a year for unlimited online backup.

i also use DROPBOX for another type of online back up. it’s what i call online backup and synching, and it rocks the casbah like nobodies business! The great news is that you can use dropbox 100% for free for up to 2 gig, if you have friends who might use it, refer them and you get more space for free! SO PEASE SIGN UP USING THIS LINK: https://www.getdropbox.com/referrals/NTI1Njk5
anyway, you download dropbox to all your machines, sign up for an account and then on each machine you have a Dropbox folder, and whatever is in this folder is synched over all of your machines over the internet.
The files are in the folder are downloaded onto each machine, so you have a local copy of everything, as well as a copy on dropbox online. This is perfect if you have any apps like 1Password or Things that you want to synch over multiple machines, just place the app’s library/background goodness onto your dropbox and booyeah you have the app synched over the machines. i LOVE ME SOME DROPBOX. been a big fan of these guys since they started, seriously check out their tour and then sign up using me as a referal so i can get more space to back up my Chick Tract collectable list.
anyway – check their awesome tour here getdropbox.com/tour

i also back up a LOT of personal photographs on my pro accounts at ZOOOMR & FLICKR – i set them as private so only i can see and download them. i do the same with video on my pro/plus account at VIMEO

so there ya go. anything i’m missing? what are you doing? let me know!

Twitter Photographer

the whole world is a twittering and we’ve been there since the beginning! {well DJ Paine was}.

follow along with our adventures in 140 characters or less:

follow the studio’s activities: @studiopromise  -   www.twitter.com/studiopromise

or the life of our principal photographer @djpaine – www.twitter.com/djpaine

the studio promise TV channel!

BIGGER AND BETTER THAN MTV! IT’S SPTV!!

well…. not really, yet! but we are using the awesome Vimeo for our videos – we have our own “channel” over there that we will be adding videos too, slideshows and special things. not alot there right now, but as they say in the television biz; “stay tuned!”

vimeo.com/channels/studiopromise

awesome photography on facebook!

Before you ask: YES! we have a fantastic Fan Page on Facebook!

We here at Studio Promise are big, big fans of “the book”, so please head on over and become a fan so you can hear all about our news first and also have a chance to win special prizes.

facebook.com/studiopromise

studio promise on flickr!

for all those Photo loving Flickr users: we love flickr too!

we have a flickr account for the studio so head on over, mark us as a contact and follow our adventures as we post them to flickr.

flickr.com/photos/studiopromise/

Wedding Video Piece from Corey

Tim & Kristy Wedding by Corey E. Sleap from DJ Paine on Vimeo.

our great friend Corey E. Sleap {we still like to call him Corex} was second shooting for us at the recent wedding in Geelong Victoria. He put this little video together of me {DJ Paine} in action. Thanks Corey!
coreyesleap.com

Geelong Wedding: St Mary’s of The Angels

Just a quick update:
Our photographer DJ is down in Geelong at the moment. He & some of the team shot a wedding for Tim & Kristy yesterday down there. it was a big wedding: in Geelong’s oldest and largest Catholic church {St Mary’s of The Angels} and a bridal party of 14 including the paige boy & flower girl. Tim & Kristy & their bridal party + the Studio Promise Wedding Photography team had a great day & everyone did an awesome job. here is one of the last shots of the day at the reception venue The Rose down in Torquay…