Sean Arbabi

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Personal Details

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from : 07/31/09
Until : 01/01/12

About me

I'm a San Francisco Bay Area-based commercial photographer specializing in adventure, lifestyle, and travel, for advertising, corporate, media, and editorial clients.

My assignment travels have taken me around the US, as well as various locations around the world including Canada, Mexico, the UK, Asia, & South America. For the past nineteen years my work has been published in advertisements, books, catalogs, and magazines around the world. In addition, our stock image files continue to grow, currently over 400,000 images strong, and available for licensing.

I'm also producing a tv show entitled "Photoguru with Sean Arbabi", and recently wrote the book "The BetterPhoto Guide to Exposure" (Amphoto/ Random House).

To review over 10,000 images, my photographic services & experience, and business in general, explore our site at: http://www.seanarbabi.com

IMDB

Photoguru with Sean Arbabi

Credits and Employment History

2009, Still Photographer

Arbabi Imagery
The past 19 years, I've been a commercial photographer who specializes in adventure, conceptual, lifestyle, and travel imagery for ad, corporate, and editorial clients.

My assignments have taken me around the world including the Asia, Canada, Mexico, South America, the UK, & the US. My assignments and images have been published in advertisements, books, magazines, and other various uses around the world in over 250 publications and with 150 companies including American Express, California Division of Tourism, GEO Germany, Microsoft, National Geographic, Random House, Sunset, and Woodbridge wines. In addition, my image collection run over 400,000 images strong, including 10,000 images online.

To review more about my company and work, visit our site: http://www.seanarbabi.com/

2009, Still Photographer
ABC
Disney
ABC'S KGO-TV show, "The View From the Bay" - a 5 minute segment on photography (brand marketing myself as a personality in the photo industry, teaching the masses about photography, gear, tips and tricks, and more

2009, Still Photographer

National Geographic
Licensed images to various departments of National Geographic- Adventure magazine, Traveler Magazine, calendars, books, and more

2004, Still Photographer
Magazine Photography
Time Warner
Travel photography

2003, Still Photographer
Magazine Photography
National Geographic
Adventure photography

2001, Still Photographer
Magazine Photography
Disney
Promotional photography

1996, Still Photographer

ESPN
Adventure documentary photography

1996, Still Photographer

Discovery
Adventure documentary photography

1995, Still Photographer

MTV Networks
Adventure commercial photography

My work has appeared in over 250 publications and with 150 companies including American Express, California Division of Tourism, Discovery, ESPN, FUJI Film USA, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, National Geographic, Nikon Inc., Random House, Sunset magazine, Via, and Timex.

Industry Qualifications

- Still Photography
- Commercial Photography
- Advertising Photography
- Editorial and Documentary Photography

Industry Awards

CTO Worldwide, Travel Writer and Photographer Award, Best Photograph in Conjunction with a Feature Article- North America 2005

Education

1988-1991: Brooks Institute of Photography: Bachelor of Arts- Commercial Photography

1988: Diablo Valley College: General Education

1986-87: San Francisco State University: Photojournalism major & General Education

1985: Albany High School- graduated

Technical Equipment

- All formats of still camera equipment (35mm to 8x10)
- A mix of lighting equipment
- Mac Operating System 10.6.1
- Adobe Photoshop CS4, Lightroom 2.5, Bridge & GoLive
- Apple's Aperture
- iLife '09: iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb
- Microsoft Office 2008 (Excel, Entourage, Powerpoint, Word)
- Extensis Portfolio 8.5
- Filemaker Pro

Other Skills/Additional Information

- Highly organized

- Consults on photographic needs and challenges

- Produce high-energy quality lecturs for over 10 years, to groups of people from 10 to 250

- Work well with people, in-charge of crews up to 15 on various photo shoots

- Experienced in Pre and Post-production regarding still photo shoots

- Easy to work with and have worked under many adverse coniditons successfully.

- I've driven boats, hung out of helicopters, riden horseback, mountain biked, and hiked through jungles, all in the pursuit of capturing images for my clients.