After missing pictures of surfing legend Kelly Slater the night before, I was on a mission to do a much better job photographing Seth Rogan present the Outstanding Performance of the Year award to James Franco during the 2011 Santa Barbara International Film Festival. He was over an hour late arriving, but turns out you...
I started the second day of the film festival at Santa Barbara Middle School where the cast from the movie, Skateistan were doing a demo for the school kids. The film documents the first skateboarding school in the country of Afghanistan, where over half of the population is under the age of 18. Professional skateboarder...
What an amazing 10 day festival this Santa Barbara International Film Festival has become!!! It’s hard to miss the opening event, as the two trucks with spotlights help create instant excitement: This is what the red carpet entrance looks like on a ‘slow’ night! The line of people in the back have ‘general admission’ tickets. ...
For the 25th Anniversary of MAX Clothing stores, owners, Max Martinez and Scott Seale welcomed Diane von Furstenberg for an incredible fashion show at the Exdo Event Center in Denver, CO. The proceeds benefited the Children’s Hospital. Here’s a picture of Diana Reidy, one of the guests of honor, and a previous patient of Children’s...
If I haven’t written it lately on Facebook or the blog, then the year in review is a great place to say…. I LOVE photographing weddings!! It is an amazing feeling to photograph one of the most important days in a person’s life and provide them with those moments to cherish for the rest of...
A HUGE thank you to everyone who hired me (Jensen Sutta Photography) and helped to make it such a wonderful year!! Here are some highlights of the Event Photography, Portraiture, Non-Profit Events, Bar and Bat Mitzvah Photography and Children’s Photography from 2010! The year began with the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. What could be...
I get this question a lot….especially around the holidays! So…in hopes of helping more than one at a time, here is my best attempt at answering: First, for those looking for Point and Shoot Cameras: These are the smaller, usually cheaper and portable variety of cameras with a lens attached that typically cannot be inter-changed...
Now that the last wedding of 2010 has been photographed, it’s that time of the year again where I go through all of my gear… I send the camera bodies and lenses in for cleaning and calibration and make sure my State Farm camera insurance policy is up to date. I was taking snapshots of...