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 [...]
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 [...]
Milton Glaser, IDEO, the d:school and design in everything!
One of the trends that we’re happy to see is the integration of design not just into graphics and marketing but as a general philosophy. We’ve shot things at IDEO and with the d:school at Stanford and this whole design world view seems to be gaining more and more momentum. I recently watched Milton Glaser: [...]
Associate happy hour and photo booth fun!
It’s Friday! It’s San Francisco Beer Week! In honor of that earlier this week we hosted some of our Associate Photographers at the studio for a photo booth and happy hour gathering. As we’re evolving our program, we brought together some folks to chat about the changes that are happening with the program and some [...]
Review: Instant The Story of Polaroid
Ever since Polaroid announced that it was done with instant photography and the Impossible Project started up, I’ve been obsessed with instant photography. I had some of the last packs of Polaroid film and still have one pack in the fridge that, most likely, I should use pretty soon. Anyhow, when I heard about Instant: [...]
Review: Life is a Gift: The Zen of Bennett
Most people know of Tony Bennett as the amazing musician, but he’s also a painter and does watercolors. I had just come from checking out a watercolor show of a high school friend, Iain Stewart, when I decided to crack open this book and start on it while visiting my family in Alabama. Right off the [...]
San Francisco Green Business renewal
We’re very proud of the fact that we were/are the first photography studio to earn the San Francisco Green Business designation from the City and County of San Francisco. It’s been a value we’ve held as a company since we started and only when there was such a program did we move to get [...]
Review: The Art of Being Unreasonable
The title of this business book by Eli Broad appeals to my creative side. As a small business owner and a creative, we know that being unreasonable can result in breakthroughs or at least original thinking. Broad is probably most known for his business and philanthropic success including KB Home, but in this book [...]
Holiday Gifting Ideas (of the non-commercial type!)
Ahhh! Can’t believe how quickly the holidays have crept up on us? I feel like we were just celebrating the Giants’ World Series win and suddenly we’re hearing holiday music everywhere. Black Friday! Small Business Saturday! Cyber Monday! Giving Tuesday – it’s all a bit much eh? Although most of America’s business entities want you [...]
Times and Fashions Change – Ethics Never Go Out of Style! by Joan Eisenstodt
Ethics are a touchy subject and in the events industry, with the GSA scandal in the news recently, it’s an important topic. Even in the sports and academic worlds, ethics has been in the news with the inaction at Penn State resulting in a terrible situation there. Joan Eisenstodt presented at both MPINCC and ISES-NCC and [...]
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 [...]
Book Review: What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There
Successful people have little reason to change… makes sense doesn’t it? That’s sort of the gist behind Marshall Goldsmith’s book “What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There”. It’s a great read for anyone who works with others and/or is a leader so it really hit home for me. As a small business, one of [...]
Book Review: Zilch
Zilch is a book about doing more with less, something we hold as a value at Orange. Since our inception, we’ve always valued that, not just because we bootstrapped our company but also from a social responsibility angle. Waste is something we don’t like, especially when reducing it can both save the environment and save [...]
My First Favorite… beer
Several weeks ago, Steal Like an Artist was trending online and it’s a great perspective (read it if you haven’t yet). One of the things I like to ‘steal’ are ideas from experiences. In the strictest sense this isn’t really stealing, but more like inspiration. However, when you travel a lot for shoots, you have opportunities to [...]
Productivity tools
As a growing business we’ve now got people in more than one location so we’ve been doing more and more remote collaboration to get things done. Some of the tools we love and how we use them are the subject of this post and hopefully they can help you out as well. Lifehacker is a [...]
Truly custom Macbook logos! Take that, Apple!
We shot for Automattic last week and one of the coolest things was the Macbook Airs that a few folks had. CEO Toni Schneider is shown here showing off his laptop in the photo above and I was like, I gotta have that too! It’s also a great marketing/branding element for anyone who’s got folks [...]
Seeking inspiration?
In these busy times it’s often hard to find inspiration for ideas whether it’s for your photography, or for running your photography business. One of the ways I like to spend time is listening to This American Life when I travel or when it’s actually on the air. The program is fantastic with all [...]
The Zappos Insights Tour
Zappos probably means different things to different people, but to us at Orange Photography, we think of them as a company with a great culture and focus on customer service – two values we hold quite dear ourselves – so it was fun to finally get to check out the Zappos Insights Tour at their headquarters in [...]
ISES-NCC Biennial Vendor Showcase
We were very proud to be a part of this week’s ISES Northern California Chapter Biennial Vendor Showcase. The event, which took place at City View at Metreon brought together local event vendors from across Northern California for the “Let’s Do Business Together” bi-annual showcase in an exhibition-style format. Alf Nucifora of the Luxury Marketing Council [...]
Schwab IMPACT 2011
We provided PR event coverage last week for Schwab IMPACT 2011. The event took place at Moscone Center, and brought together industry heavy-hitters, including PIMCO founder and co-CIO, Bill Gross, and Charles Schwab’s chief market strategist, Liz Ann Sonders. The event featured notable keynotes from luminaries, Charlie Rose, Tony Blair, Joshua Cooper Ramo, Charles Schwab himself [...]
Book Review: Tell to Win
As a small business we’re always striving to improve and this occurs on several fronts. We are always looking at what trends are going on in the photography world (and hopefully helping set some) as well as looking inward at how we can better improve our business . The book I read during my most [...]
We’re Hiring!!
That’s right, Orange is growing and we’re looking for the right people to add to our team! We’re hiring for not just one but TWO positions currently: Retail Sales Manager and Staff Photographer. So you might be wondering why you might want to work at Orange Photography. Well, let us tell you: because it’s awesome. [...]
Orange in Motion
Sure you’ve seen our still photography, but check out this great new video that gives you a glimpse of Orange at work and shares with you a little more of who we are! We’re thrilled to offer video alongside our photography services and this example is just a taste of what we can do for [...]
The New Orange!
You may have noticed that there have been some changes around here. See it? Up there in the left corner? That’s right! A NEW LOGO! We’ve been working on this behind the scenes for the past couple months with Brian from Boon Design and are pretty excited about our new new look. But having [...]