The ladies still love Ponch!
The PCBC 2008 Conference is in full swing now over at Moscone North and South and has some big hitters in town giving presentations such as Carly Fiornia, Malcolm Gladwell and Tom Peters. Of course the biggest draw might have been Ponch aka Erik Estrada! I was a long time C.H.I.P.s fan growing up so […]
Photo Permits

I read a good article on photo permits that Scott Kelby from Photoshop Insider posted. Here in San Francisco we do a lot of location shoots so we’ve come across this. If you are shooting in a Parks and Rec property then you do need a permit. The fees and such are all outlined on the […]
Roshambo Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament
This past weekend was the Rock, Paper, Scissors Tournament up in Sonoma at Cornerstone. It was the 6th year that Roshambo Winery has done it and the Space Cowboys brought up the Unimog to provide beats. This year the Orange representative made the third round […]
Presidio School of Management MBA Graduation photography
The Presidio School of Management had their graduation for their MBA students on Friday afternoon. The school has innovative programs in in Sustainable Management and the graduates were an assortment of ambitious and caring individuals working to help make the world better while also running viable businesses. Larry Brilliant was the featured speaker – Brilliant […]
MPINCC Gala and silent auction – photography and video sponsorship
So the Orange Photography team was on hand as one of the sponsors for the 2008 MPINCC Gala and Silent Auction. We provided video production services in the form of a video loop that played all evening as well as event photography. Once again we were the official photographers for MPINCC, and the Gala is always […]
Gyros revisited
So this past weekend during First Exposures mentoring I was out taking photos with one of the mentees and came across this new gyro woman ad – this time for Chicken Gyros. I hadn’t seen this one and it is nice to see a new addition to the library of stock gyro women in the posters (as we’ve noted before on our blog). My mentee was mostly documenting graffiti and I actually was able to learn a [...]
Glenn Matsumura Lighting workshop at Orange Photography Studios
In conjuction with Fotovision, we’ll be hosting professional photographer Glenn Matsumura’s lighting workshop on June 14th at our photography studio. This class will center on techniques using the small flash and is ideal for those who are working in the field either on assignment or on their own project. Students will try out flash techniques in the neighborhood and the results will be shared and discussed. Topics include: – Using available light – Color correction gels – [...]
Bay to Breakers 2008
They’re up! Check out the photos from Bay to Breakers 2008. Can you believe all this happened before 10:30am? It was an early start Sunday morning, but we powered through on mimosas and all that zany energy in the air. Some of my favorite were the Tetris folks and Girl with A Pearl Earring with her very own Vermeer. oh yeah and the return of the Elvises.Your favorites?
Birth of the Cool – Oakland Museum
We had a grand time shooting the gala opening for The Birth of Cool exhibit at the Oakland Museum. We set up a greenscreen photo station to recreate the above Julius Shulman image, “Case Study House #21”. The original 1958 image (left) features Pierre Koenig, the architect of the house, standing at the stereo. While poking around the web, I found some images of the same house, that Shulman returned to shoot fifty years later when it [...]



