MPI World Education Congress & our Headshot Studio Booth
Orange is excited to announce our third year as the official photographer at the World Education Congress 2013, being held at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas this year! If you are unfamiliar, WEC is THE international meeting planner’s event of the year, showcasing industry trends, while cultivating key education and networking opportunities for meeting planners, [...]
Visit Denmark!
We got to work this event that Key Events put on for Visit Denmark and SAS Airlines and you can see our photography team at work shooting Polaroids and such in this video. I recently made my first trip to Denmark and Copenhagen (and Roskilde) and flew SAS to Copenhagen and had a wonderful time. [...]
Time Lapse Photo Booths
Time lapse and photo booths can go quite well together. We do regular time lapses (as shown above, for the 2011 ISES-NCC Gala at the Bently Reserve) as well as regular photo booths of all sorts, so setting up a time lapse photo booth is a fun merge of the two. We’ve done this quite [...]
Event entertainment trend: Pinball machines
Pinball machines are popping up all over. Is this a trend or something old becoming cool again? We decided to investigate mostly because our company has a couple big pinball fans in our midst and we hope that it’s both a trend and becoming cool again. We talked to Luiza Flodr of Video Amusement, which [...]
Hartmann Studios Client Appreciation 2013
Hartmann Studios threw their 2013 Client Appreciation event last night at Fort Mason Center and it was the event to be at for event industry professionals. Here’s a few of our shots from the evening but we’ll be posting the full gallery online soon. We’ve also posted some of these shots on our Facebook page [...]
Variety Children’s Comedy Benefit
Sometimes we get so busy that we forget to blog about fun events that we get to cover. One of those was the Variety Children’s Comedy Benefit that headlined Zach Galifianakis. It happened during the always fun SF Sketchfest, and was help at The Punchline’s in support of Variety’s Therapeutic Scholarship Program. The program proving scholarships to deserving disabled [...]
ISES-NCC Education program: The Psychology of Events by Kevin White
Photographing events gives us a pretty broad exposure into the world of how events are run and how people respond to them. However, on Tuesday March 19th, Kevin White, CSEP, and Chief Strategist at XPL presented on the psychology of events. This was an interesting topic since it went much deeper into how to make events [...]
The new Speakeasy Tap Room!
You may have heard that Speakeasy has a new taproom designed by Kelly Malone and we finally checked it out during a fundraiser for her. The place is gorgeous and we set up a photobooth for the benefit too and because of the design it was a cinch to make it look amazing since the [...]
2013 MPINCC Annual Conference and Expo
What’s the best part about event and hospitality conventions? Going home with all the freebies? Well, aside from that, it’s a chance to get great personal interaction and insight from the kinds of companies that you cross paths with every day. It also provides a rare opportunity, as so much is done virtually these days, [...]
San Francisco Beer Week is almost over :(
In case you hadn’t noticed that the city might be a bit more tipsy than usual, that’s because it’s San Francisco Beer Week! We covered the Opening Night gala on Friday which has grown tremendously over the years and during the week there are a ridiculous number of events going on. There’s probably a lot [...]
7th San Francisco Green Business Awards Reception
We were super excited to attend and shoot this event since we were getting our new plaque for our renewal as a San Francisco Green Business. We’re very proud to have been the first photography studio to earn this designation, which is one of the most stringent ones around, since being green has been a [...]
San Francisco Beer Week Opening Celebration #sfbeerweek
If you aren’t already at the DIPA Fest then you might be remembering all the great beers from last night’s opening celebration for San Francisco Beer Week! Like many, we first had to grab a taste of Pliny the Younger. Always a hugely popular brew, I felt kind of sorry for the Russian River folks [...]
Let’s go #49ers!
Colin Kaepernick has got all the hype right now and we recall photographing him the first time and how chill and down to earth he was. In October of 2011 at the 49ers facility in Santa Clara, I spoke with him about what it felt like to be in the NFL and a 49er. He was [...]
Did you make it to 3rd Base?
Last night we had a blast at The Bold Italic‘s 2nd microhood event here in the Dogpatch, 3rd Base. If you stopped by the Dodocase space, then you probably hopped into our photobooth and tried some samples of delicious Almanac Beers, or maybe some Spicy Vines Spiced Wine? Of course there was the addictive Bacon [...]
Photo booths to fashion…
We had the honor of shooting the Sno-ball party, one of the many joint birthday parties we’ve shot over the years (remember April Mistakes?!) and it was quite a blast. People dressed up in many ways, and we’re honored that Betabrand has decided to use a few shots on their website (above). They’ve got some [...]
Indian Weddings and Event Trends
This past week we Americans were more than ready to get together with family and gobble up a big meal. But in Indian culture, Diwali (the festival of lights) was just finishing up along with the My India Event Trends showcase at San Francisco City Hall. We were honored to be asked to capture this [...]
Photography as a workout
Just this past week we were in Chicago to shoot the Schwab IMPACT conference and just got back from it. One of the things that came up during the conference that we’ve tackled before, was the amount of walking during a day of shooting. Talking to one of the other photographers, I decided to track [...]
We all love a parade!
The Giants won the World Series for the second time in three years and we went to the parade and rally again yesterday! It was so fun and we let folks from the studio take off to check it out if they wanted since so many of us here are Giants fans. I was particularly [...]
San Francisco Giants 2012 World Series Champions!
Well, the 2012 baseball season is over and the crew at Orange was super excited to see our San Francisco Giants win the World Series for the second time in three years. It was also awesome that one of the main hashtags for the postseason was #OrangeOctober, which of course, we loved! During the course [...]
Let’s go Giants!
Last night I got an impromptu invitation to check out the game from fellow photographer Myleen Hollero and got to sit in the upper deck for the first time. The view was pretty cool and it was a good game with Madison Bumgarner pitching strong and getting the win, and solid defense to compliment just [...]
Event photography is great cardio!
This past weekend we covered Venue Connect 2012 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for the IAVM. It occurred to me during the event that we, as event photographers, do a lot of walking when we shoot. That paired with the less than wise choice to bring my ‘cool’ shoes instead of my super comfy shoes, led [...]
Shooting with the Gigapan
I remember first seeing/hearing about the Gigapan when David Bergman shot with it at President Obama’s inauguration (see the photo here and read about his experience shooting it on his own blog posting). Recently one of our clients hired us to shoot a group shot with it and it was a lot of fun to use. [...]
The Computer History Museum takes you back… to the future?
Museums are great because they can bring you back to the past, but a good museum can also propel you into the future or at least make you think about it. The Computer History Museum does just that and we’ve shot all kinds of events there from an Audi test drive event in the parking [...]