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April 21, 2008
Amy Arbus at Orange Photography for Fotovision
Renown portrait photographer Amy Arbus was in our studio over the weekend conducting 'Portraits Without Walls', a Fotovision.org 2-day workshop. The course was designed to encourage students to photograph people in an entirely new way; to develop a sense of movement and urgency in their photographs. On Sunday, the students photographed the Cherry Blossom Festival Grand Parade at Civic Center and then discussed their experience. Towards the end of the workshop, students were able to get feedback from Amy while having her review their portfolios. We're looking forward to hosting another workshop for Fotovision again soon!
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April 16, 2008
Happy Birthday Gene
Hi Gene, happy birthday! You thought you could sneak another one by us...
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AdAuthority Launch Party
Last night AdAuthority had a party at Slide that packed the club. DJ Scotty Boy flew in from Las Vegas to spin and there was dancing breaking out all over. Lotus Vodka was poured for the ladies complimentary and everyone seemed to have a great time. Ad industry folks definitely know how to enjoy themselves...
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April 15, 2008
We're Hiring!
We just posted the job opportunity on Craigslist so check it out here! No calls please, just forward details on to the email listed in the posting. We're growing our sales team to handle the amount of business we have and if you are interested in a career with a growing national event photography agency and you have experience in the events/hospitality/destination management industry or know someone who does, please get in touch!
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April 14, 2008
Girls Day at the Boys and Girls Club
It was just us girls at the Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco event Saturday. They've created a fantastic clubhouse complete with pool tables, computer lab, photo studio, darkroom, and silk screening. The girls were really showered with attention by all the volunteers. Was great to see and document.
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April 13, 2008
Ghana Youth Photo Project Fundraiser @ 111 Minna!
On April 17 SF Camerawork’s First Exposures hosts a special fundraising event of music and art at the popular 111 Minna Gallery and nightclub. The funds raised by this benefit will help us to send six of our talented young photographers to Ghana, West Africa to work with a likeminded group of young photographers there. This trip will build on a previously established photo exchange and provide these deserving students a rare opportunity to travel to a foreign land and participate in an amazing photographic and cultural experience. First Exposures is the Bay Area’s oldest photography mentoring program providing one to one mentoring for underserved youth ages 11-18.
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April 10, 2008
Mitsubishi features Orange Photography (on-site printing and green screen)
We've been using Mitsubishi printers ever since we started doing some on-site printing at events and we've always been pleased with the results. Their printers are well built and really stand up to constant use. Since we've also spoken at numerous seminars and conferences, we got to talking with them directly and they've decided to feature Orange Photography. We're honored to be on their website and continue to use their products. Many photographers have asked us about what we use and primarily now we use the CP-9500 and CP-9550DW Digital Color Photo Printers. They are dye sublimation and the print quality is superb as well as how quickly they print.
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April 9, 2008
The other Olympics...
So while the Olympic torch was stashed away for Wednesday's torch run, and a rally was held at United Nations Plaza to support Tibet, there was another event going on in the same spirit of the Games... the Arby's Olympics - held at San Francisco's only Arby's in the Outer Sunset.
The event was organized on Yelp and was an eclectic group of folks. The idea was hatched last year at Scott Howard of all places and in it's second year attracted a larger crowd and included sponsored awards for two of the categories (graciously sponsored by Arby's themselves!).
In the end the two winners of the Arby's Spirit Awards were:
- Most amount of meat consumed in one sandwich- ChrisT - 40 oz
- Most Beef n Cheddars eaten - Anthony L- 9
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April 8, 2008
Film (analog) and the romanticism of vignetting
One of the things that's obvious with digital when it first came out was the lack of vignetting (unless you were using a really crappy lens or toy camera). With the advent of the full frame sensors I saw a return of the vignette and with Lightroom being a popular tool and one we use quite a bit here at Orange, I've noticed how romantic an image can become with the vignetting. I don't know if this is because of the warmth and familiarity that those of us from the film days recall of the vignetting and the lack thereof in less than full sized sensors? Or maybe it's just how the vignetting pulls the focus in more to the central area of a photo?
While editing a recent shoot I couldn't ignore it.. The shot above has the vignette and I've also posted the original version below the jump...
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April 7, 2008
Taco Bell asks you to be a professional swimsuit photographer!
Having shot tons of models on beaches and such it was fun to see that Taco Bell has a new promo out called Direct Daniella which lets you play the role of SI swimsuit issue photographer. It's kind of a neat concept and maybe it'll let folks have some idea of what it's like although it's never quite the same as in real life!
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April 2, 2008
Event photography collage for Exxon Mobil
We shot a conference for Exxon Mobil this week and one of the things that's always nice is to see the photography leveraged in presentations to the audience. This is a shot of some of the images we shot the day and night before as part of a wrap up presentation. People always enjoy seeing themselves and we've done a lot of events where things like this are produced and it's always a hit.
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April 1, 2008
Photo booths with on-site printing
So we do a lot of photo booths at various corporate, private and social events. This was a shot taken at the San Jose Museum of Art this past weekend. We had two stations set up to take portraits of couples for a private party and in a separate room we had our printers set up. People as usual started to relax and have more fun with the booths as the evening went on and we actually kept them open an extra hour just because of their popularity. This is always a hit and we also often do it with green screen as well.
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