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 [...]
Back to School, First Exposures returns!
Another school year has kicked off and that means that another year of First Exposures has kicked off as well. As a long-time mentor in the program, we’ve seen it grow over the years and this year has a ton of new faces. It’s great to see this program growing and after our second class [...]
First Exposures kills it!
Last Thursday was the benefit auction for the First Exposures mentoring program at SF Camerawork and the fundraiser raised over $60,000 – the biggest fundraiser to date! We had a packed house at the gallery and there was a lot of great work up. Alan Bamberger made an appearance as did a ton of others [...]
Bike to Work Day photo booth at Public Works
We at Orange Photography are huge supporters of biking and while there’s been a lot of negative publicity of bikers in the news, we know that the majority of bikers are good people who follow the rules of the road and of course one of the biggest cycling days in San Francisco is Bike to [...]
Slap Cancer with the San Francisco Giants!
Our Social Photography program has been in high gear of late and we’re excited to be a part of the Slap Cancer program. Slap Cancer Save Lives is Brianna Haag’s campaign for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Woman of the Year. Man & Woman of the Year is a ten-week fundraising competition, and they are [...]
Charity Watch! The Hearts of San Francisco 86th Annual Junior League Fashion Show
Are you going to be at the Junior League’s Hearts of San Francisco 86th Annual Fashion Show tomorrow? If so, look for our smashBOOTH photobooth at the after party! You’ll be able to post photos straight to your Facebook page of your fabulous selves as well as download the photos right there with our new touch [...]
Behind the Scenes: Help Portrait 2011
Great work & thank you to everyone who came out to Bayview Opera House for Help Portrait 2011 on December 10th! We joined SF Camerawork’s First Exposures students, along with Pro Camera, Gassers, RayKo and over 100 volunteers to help support the annual worldwide event, which aims to “give, not take portraits,” offering our local communities an opportunity to look their best for [...]
Help Portrait – December 10th
On December 10th, we’ll be taking part in the worldwide event, Help Portrait. Help Portrait, founded by celebrity photographer Jeremy Cowart, is a global movement of photographers – from diverse cities as Clarksburg, West Virginia, to Milan, Italy – volunteering their time, camera gear, and expertise during the holiday season to give a person or families [...]
Help MDA raise funds for Muscular Dystrophy research
Last night we were happy to donate our services as part of our Social Photography program to the MDA of San Francisco. MDA has a camp that the kids go to that’s something they look forward to each year, and the research into Muscular Dystrophy has been an ongoing battle. To help keep this research [...]
First Exposures at Orange Photography Studio!
We were delighted to host the First Exposures program as the last real big ‘event’ at our old studio space at 1261 Howard in SOMA. It was a lot of fun and I think the kids got a kick out of it. It’s amazing all the different looks you can get in that one spot, [...]
Love on Wheels and our first Rickshaw photobooth!
Another fun evening with the San Francisco Bike Coalition as we sponsored their Love on Wheels event/fundraiser at the Rickshaw Stop this past Friday evening. There were singles of all sorts and even luminaries like biking legend Gary Fisher (below) who popped into our photobooth which we had set up with a rickshaw that proved [...]
Makin Whoopie fundraiser!
This past weekend we were excited to have donated a live auction item and sponsored a photobooth for our good friends Molly and Brian Walsh who held a fundraiser for IVF. A lot of industry folks joined in to support them including Brad Barton, The Reality Thief, who is an amazing magician/illusionist (above). We also [...]
Muscular Dystrophy Association 2nd Annual Stars of San Francisco
Tonight we shot the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s 2nd Annual Stars of San Francisco at the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill. This was the second year in a row that we sponsored the event and it was another great turnout for a great cause. We’ve been incredibly busy with corporate work as well as weddings so [...]
Muscular Dystrophy Association 2nd Annual Stars of San Francisco
Please join the Muscular Dystrophy Association for the 2nd Annual Stars of San Francisco. This exciting philanthropic event takes place in The Penthouse Suite of The Fairmont San Francisco on July 28th, 2009 from 5:00pm – 8:00pm. Again this year Orange will be providing event photography coverage for this great fundraiser. The Stars of San [...]
First Exposures Zine Release party!
Well this semester of mentoring is wrapping up and the final event will be the zine release party at Adobe Books on Friday June 5, 2009. I’ve had a great time working with the kids in the program and some of the zines are really neat. The digital class did theirs using digital images and [...]
SOMA businesses thrive! Gama-Go opens retail store…
Our friends over at Gama-Go recently opened up a retail store so you can now buy and check out their merch in person. While everyone has been hearing about businesses shrinking and other related bad news, it’s great that a lot of us here in SOMA are doing well. Go visit Gama-Go and mark your [...]
Ghana Youth and First Exposures art opening at SF Camerawork
Last night I checked out the opening for”United in Nima: Bay Area and Ghanaian Youth Share Lives Through the Lens” at SF Camerawork. I do some mentoring in First Exposures so this opening had a personal connection and it was amazing to see the work the mentees did while in Ghana. The show is up [...]