DeNoise Studios (please read profile)
DeNoise Studios (please read profile)

DeNoise Studios (please read profile)

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--------PLEASE READ BEFORE CHECKING OUR AVAILABILITY---------- At DeNoise Studios, we love Thumbtack! However, Thumbtack charges each vendor a significant fee as soon as you contact us. So please take the time to carefully check profiles, reviews, samples, prices, and contact only the vendor you feel is the right match for you. We have 1000+ samples and reviews on our website. Thank you! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ABOUT US DeNoise Studios is a small video, photo, audio production facility located in Berkeley, CA. Since 1998, we have completed more than 8000 projects. We have a beautiful production studio located in Berkeley CA, and we also go everyday to film, shoot, and record on location, all over California and sometimes in other states and worlwide. Editing and projects management is always done at our studio under the supervision of Albert Benichou, the owner. We love seeing projects come to life. At DeNoise Studios we offer video, photo, and audio production services for business and personal events as well as for creative projects. Our skilled teams can help with every aspect of production including: scriptwriting, storyboarding, filming, recording, shooting, and live streaming. At our studio or on location we offer green screen services, editing, tilting, special effects, voice-over, captioning, digitization, duplication, and on-demand distribution. We have access to many talented musicians, models, hair and makeup artists for any creative production needs. About our founder, Albert Benichou: “I grew up in south of France, spent a few years in Israel and Morocco, and came to Berkeley in 1998 where I started DeNoise Studios. The business began as a sound mastering facility working with local musicians. I am an artist myself, I write and compose songs. I play guitar and perform in the French/Bossanova style. In 2008, I expanded DeNoise to include video and photo production and I was able to transfer my artistic skills in a way that I can today handle a mic or a lens with the same passion. Every day I pack my bike with equipment and meet different people telling different stories, and there is probably no better place than the Bay Area for this.”
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Hired 1764 times

Serves Berkeley, CA

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4 employees

27 years in business

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Projects and media

135 photos

Projects and media

135 photos

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Customers rated this pro highly for professionalism, responsiveness, and work quality.

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Gozde D.
May 1, 2024
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Excellent experience and quality of work for our graduation gala photos from DeNoise Studios. We love how the photos came out and would 100% work with them again.

Details: Graduation • 100 - 149 guests • Indoors • Digital or online download

Wedding and Event Photography
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Rachel M.
Oct 23, 2023
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This photography business is fantastic! They take great pictures and get them back to you right away so you don’t have to wait for several weeks. We got our wedding photos back in 6 days! And the pricing is very reasonable! Definitely us them for your photography needs!

Details: Wedding • 25 - 49 guests • Indoors • Digital or online download

Wedding and Event Photography
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Tiffanie H.
Apr 25, 2022
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Alex was amazing she knew what she was doing and made my vision come true. She was very easy going and patient with everything that was going on with my wedding. She was even able to catch our little cake fight and most things you don’t see with all of our guest . I would highly recommend DeNoise studios with how professional and quick responses they made to ensure I was getting the very upmost service.

Details: Wedding • 100 - 149 guests • Outdoors • Flash drive • Digital or online download

Wedding and Event Photography
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Lori P.
Mar 3, 2020
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Can’t speak highly enough of DeNoise Studios. Our original photographer gave us notice that he was unable to make it to the Grand Opening of our studio, “Aikido By the Bay”, only one week before. We were so fortunate to have found DeNoise. They were incredible from beginning to end! They responded within a few hours, very simple process to hire them. Their photographer was very professional and accommodating to any of our requests and the photos he took are fantastic! He captured everything from up close action photos, to formal group photos, and everything in between. He was literally everywhere and there was a lot going on. But he was completely unobtrusive and wonderful to work with! Would hire them again in a second! Hope to use them for all our future events! Thank you DeNoise for being so wonderful to work with!

Details: Sporting event • 50 - 99 guests • Indoors • Digital or online download

Wedding and Event Photography
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The C.
Jan 31, 2017
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We hired DeNoise to cover a two-day 400 person event conference. This is a typical job for us though our first time working with DeNoise. At the last minute, were very surprised to find out that Albert wasn't shooting the event himself as that was the impression we’d been given. He assured us that the replacement was an excellent event photographer.  The photographer was a huge source of frustration to a number of staff on site. While demanding a locked room for her computer (as opposed to the production space that was guarded at all times) she still chose to carry her large backpack with her so that she was bumping into people and chairs while moving through a quiet room during plenaries. She had no sense of how to not be in the center of everything. She would stand so tall right in front of the podium that she was blocking the tight shot of the broadcast cameras behind her more than a half dozen times. She was a major distraction throughout the event. We were very frustrated with the selects we received on day one. I explained that the images were not exposed correctly and the white balance was all over the place. I asked for the photographer to shoot a little more wide open and to try to address the camera shake that we got a lot of. The photographer said: “Albert will fix them in post, I didn’t really have time to do anything with them.” As a photographer myself, those words bothered me a great deal.  She continued to shoot the second day and I assumed (incorrectly) that she’d taken note of the poor quality from the day before and would pay closer attention to her images. What I didn’t realize was that the reason for the exposure problems and lack of sharpness was that she thought her camera was set to Program but it was really set to Manual.  Almost a week after the event, I got the first 468 images. The overwhelming majority (94%) either didn’t meet basic standards for sharpness, composition, and shot choice or they had exposure and white balance problems that made them unusable. These issues needed to be done in camera, not in post. When I tried to figure out what was wrong with the images I found that all of the EXIF data had been stripped from the files. I raised the question about why the files had none of this data. I got no answer (though the second half of the files I received were not stripped). When I did get files with EXIF information, the problems began to reveal themselves more systematically. Virtually everything was shot at 1/60th and 1/100th, which would be totally fine if she weren’t at 70mm and 200mm so often. This explains why there are so many shots showing camera shake. The data shows that at minimum more than 200 images were shot at a focal length requiring more than 1/100th sec shutter speed (everything shot at >100mm), which she never used. The files show that the event was shot almost exclusively at ISO1600 (again, manual aperture changes but virtually no changes in shutter speed). This meant that almost everything in the ballroom was underexposed and almost everything in more well lit areas was overexposed.  As for what I would expect in post, nothing had been done. Albert admitted that he hadn’t actually done the work and later sent an edited batch. The “edited” versions had no exposure fixes, and in many cases were worse than the original. The white balance was often a severe problem. Auto white balance meant that every single image had to be edited manually. Sample taken from the exact same podium sign under the exact same lighting had radically different temperatures and hues, even in sequential images. This is not the level of photography I expect for $2400. It’s unprofessional, and shows little skill. Any one of these problems could probably have still left us with plenty of usable images but all of these problems converging left us with a couple dozen that could be used in a pinch but nothing for us to be proud of. That’s out of the ~1000 he gave us, who knows how many he held back! Albert indicated that he had personal matters that prevented him from doing his side of the work but claimed that complaints about the quality of the work was irrational. He indicated that this is illustrative of the work he does and that he stands behind it. I have worked with countless photographers and have become friends with many of them following events. I hold their work in the highest regard and have never, ever worked with a photographer as incompetent, nor a photography studio owner as unwilling to put in the minimum effort for a job.
DeNoise Studios (please read profile)'s reply
This person sent me countless and endless harassing emails, I had to stop him. Out of the 964 photos he received 900 are great. I let you judge. https://denoise.smugmug.com/Photo-Samples/Corporate/Events/5298-California-Stepping-Up-Summit. Albert
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Albert Benichou