Traveling for shoots and lighting rental tips

2017-07-24T21:22:11-07:00By |Categories: Commercial, Point of View, Reviews, Special Events and Meetings|Tags: , , , |

photo lighting rental woes?Travel Lighting Rental Tips

At Orange Photography, we do a lot of travel and photo shoots on-location.  As a result, we’ve had some issues finding good rental houses (or lighting rental locations at all!). One of the best solutions we’ve found (aside from renting locally from the place you’re shooting at) is to just use your local rental house to ship, or use great services like […]

Company Holiday Party Tips – Do’s and Don’ts and Photobooth ideas

2017-07-24T21:22:11-07:00By |Categories: Photobooth, Point of View, Special Events and Meetings|Tags: , , , , , |

8030_GoogleHoliday_RAW_GXH-26fFunnily enough The Bold Italic beat us to this (How to Survive Your Company Holiday Party) but we were trying to get some real-life examples during all the holiday parties we’re photographing and the holiday party photo booths we’re doing all season.  It’s always a fun part of the year for us since everyone is having a great time, but here’s a few do’s and don’ts from the […]

2014 San Francisco Giants World Series Championship Parade!

2017-07-24T21:22:11-07:00By |Categories: Personal, Photography, Point of View, Special Events and Meetings|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

3x World Series Champs!!!

Wow, what a run this year!  I felt like we were the best team in baseball and then the worst team in baseball, and then who knows what.  Once we got into the playoffs and won the Wild Card it was an insane ride and I must say the Royals were probably the better team but we were able to pull out another World Series Championship for our third in five years – incredible!

As […]

ISES Live Seattle 2014 wrap up!

2017-07-24T21:22:12-07:00By |Categories: Point of View, Special Events and Meetings|Tags: , , , , |

7909_ISESLive_0022fISES Live was held in Seattle this year and we were there beginning with the leadership education on Sunday and Monday.  Below are some photos from our experience but we were mostly there for the education and to network and share. Success stories and challenges were shared, and there were a lot of the […]

Behind the Scenes at MPI WEC

2017-07-24T21:22:12-07:00By |Categories: Point of View, Special Events and Meetings|Tags: , |

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Our team pulled some long hours during MPI WEC 2014 but we also had time to have some fun.  Above, we hit The Local after our shoots wrapped up to have a drink right before last call (notice the bar is empty for all but  our team :).  But that wasn’t all we did.  Mostly we were all over the place covering all the happenings and […]

Orange Photography Charity Pinball Tournament for First Exposures

2017-07-24T21:22:12-07:00By |Categories: Giving Back, Photography, Point of View, Special Events and Meetings|Tags: , , |

pinball2014_1232f Chris Harkins, host of the tournament, takes a shot at the side tournament on Lord of the Rings.

This past Sunday we organized our first charity pinball tournament in Oakland to benefit First Exposures.  The event ended up with 41 players from around the Bay Area including some very high ranking players as well as first time competitive pinballers and players representing six different countries.  The tournament was played […]

Levi’s Stadium Ribbon Cutting Photo Ops

2017-07-24T21:22:12-07:00By |Categories: Photobooth, Special Events and Meetings|Tags: , , |

7908_e2K_LevisStadiumGXH_0004fYesterday we were on hand as Levi’s® Stadium – Home of the San Francisco 49ers had their ribbon cutting.  It was a perfect day as the sun shone down and breezes kept us cool down in Santa Clara.  Luminaries such as 49ers owner Jed York and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell were there to open up the new stadium.

We had set up eight photo stations to take photographs of […]

chase jarvis LIVE with @swissmiss – passion projects!

2017-07-24T21:22:12-07:00By |Categories: Business, Point of View, Reviews, Special Events and Meetings|Tags: , , , , , , |

chasejarvisLIVEscreenWe were fortunate enough to get to attend chasejarvisLIVE live and in person recently!  Two members from our team were in attendance in the standing-room-only creativeLIVE studios here in San Francisco on Wednesday June 18th where Tina Roth Eisenberg (aka @swissmiss) was in conversation with Chase Jarvis.

genex2014_RAW-210fOne of the themes was side projects and labors of […]

Camera Bags and Compact Flash – the value of customer service

2017-07-24T21:22:13-07:00By |Categories: Business, Photography, Point of View, Reviews|Tags: , , , |

genex2014_0046fRecently we had two awesome customer service experiences with two brands we have had a longstanding relationship with.  One is Think Tank Photo who produces camera bags and accessories, and the other is with Lexar Media. The first product we ever bought from Think Tank was the Airport Antidote camera bag.  It was right after the company started up and we heard about them when shooting for the […]

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