Tuesday 1 December 2009

Christmas Photography Gift Vouchers : Photo Shoot Gift Tokens

If you are looking for a special last minute gift for Christmas then one of our photo shoot gift vouchers could be the perfect answer. You can buy vouchers for family portrait shoots or makeover photo shoots or for a modelling portfolio photo shoot. You can also buy vouchers as part payment for any other shoot we offer.

You can find out more information here. Gift vouchers can be bought and paid for online using Google Checkout. Vouchers can be for any of the photo shoots that we offer and are valid for 12 months.

Low cost photo and digital media backups on your PC

With most people now having several years worth of digital photos stored on their PC it is becoming more and more important to ensure that your valuable digital media is properly backed up. PC hard drives do not last forever and it is all too easy to forget to copy your photos to a secure location until it is too late.

We use a large server to store and backup all our digital media files (photos and video) plus important documents but affordable solutions are available for little outlay.

If you purchase a 1Tb (terabyte = 1000 Gb gigabyte) external USB hard drive you can connect this to your PC to enable backups to be made. There are various free software packages that will manage this backup process for you. If you configure this software it can automatically copy any new or changed files from your PC to the external USB drive making sure that copies are available in the event of a hard drive crash.

Some of the software you can use is SyncToy (free from Microsoft) or DeltaCopy (open source). The configuration of DeltaCopy is more complex but it is a powerful piece of software that we use.

SyncToy is free but can easily be setup and be scheduled to run every time your PC starts or you can run it when you want.