So we had a rare evening off and took the studio out to dinner and drinks last night. We had a solid dinner at the Oak Room at the Westin St. Francis and then went for drinks at Bacchus Kirk following. Now it's back to more client holiday party photography as we'll be doing about ten over the next couple days... Happy Holidays!

Maurice Hicks gains some yardage during San Francisco's 27-7 loss to the Minnesota Vikings at Monster Park on Sunday Dec. 9th, 2007. We were on hand to shoot the game as we also photographed the opening ceremony for Standard Pacific's awarding of scholarships to three students on the field. Unfortunately the 49ers weren't able to pull out a victory for the home team though.

Green screen is a really popular type of event photography that we do here at Orange. During the holiday season, many of our clients ask for green screen photography which entails shooting against a chroma-key backdrop. Then the background is dropped out digitally and the image is then put onto whatever other image/scene you want. At one of our Saturday evening parties, our client had us shoot several different scenes from around the world. Here's three photos showing how green screen photography is done.

Step 1 - take the shot against the chroma key background:

So the Holiday party season is upon us and we're busy with multiple parties kicking things off here at the end of November. We got our requisite test photographs with our staff of photographers here at the San Jose Museum of Art for the Rackable Systems Holiday Party. In Brady Bunch fashion (clockwise from top left) is Nikki Ritcher, me with my Toyota leap, Eric Slomanson and Hannah Filbin. Happy Holidays!

Tony Award winner Duncan Sheik was in town for ACT's Producers Circle dinner tonight. I was fortunate enough to have seen Spring Awakening on Broadway with my sister earlier this year so it was nice to see the man behind the music. Of course having grown up in the 80s I also recall him from his big hit back then. He still looks pretty young but then I guess I hope I don't look too old too!