# Arrowood Photography & Cinema > Documentary photography and cinema in San Francisco, Napa Valley, and Sonoma. Photographer Tara Arrowood has worked across California for more than 25 years, covering weddings, corporate conferences and executive events, milestone celebrations, and family portraits. Weddings and corporate work are the two core practices. Photography and cinema are offered together as one team. ## About Tara Arrowood is a photographer and filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She traded an engineering degree for a camera and has worked full time behind the camera since 2004, covering more than a thousand weddings and events. Her approach is documentary: anticipating meaningful moments, offering calm guidance when it helps, and stepping back when it does not. It applies as much to a keynote stage or a headshot line as to a wedding day. The guiding principle of the studio is that extraordinary photographs are earned through extraordinary care. ## Weddings - Documentary wedding photography throughout Northern California - Wedding cinema and videography, available alongside photography at a combined rate, never as a standalone service - Indian, South Asian, and multicultural weddings, including multi-day celebrations - Cinematic highlight films, full ceremony films, and full speech and toast films - Engagement sessions and custom heirloom albums - Two-week gallery delivery guarantee Two decades of experience with Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, and multicultural weddings, including the pace, traditions, and family dynamics of multi-day celebrations. ## Corporate Corporate photography and video for companies and event planners throughout California. More than 20 years covering corporate events, with a reputation for staying calm under pressure and turning work around quickly. - **Conferences:** general sessions, breakouts, keynotes, networking, awards, executive summits - **Executive headshots:** studio-quality portraits shot on site, for leadership teams, company directories, and LinkedIn, with consistent lighting and framing across an entire team - **Corporate events:** holiday parties, product launches, customer events, VIP dinners, company celebrations, incentive trips - **Event video:** highlight films and recap edits for internal communications and marketing Clients have included LinkedIn, Google, and Benchmark Destinations. Trusted by planners and Fortune 500 companies. ## Celebrations Milestone celebrations photographed with the same care as a wedding day. - Bar and bat mitzvahs, from the synagogue service through the reception - Private parties: birthdays, anniversaries, retirement celebrations, baby showers - Multi-generational family gatherings ## Family portraits Relaxed portrait sessions on location or at home, built around how a family actually spends time together, with a few classic posed portraits included. Many families return every two or three years. ## Service areas San Francisco, Napa Valley, Sonoma, Marin, the Peninsula, the East Bay, Silicon Valley and the South Bay, Lake Tahoe, the Monterey Peninsula and Big Sur, and destinations worldwide. ## Key pages - [Wedding Photography](https://arrowoodphotography.com/wedding-photography): documentary wedding photography and cinema across Northern California - [Indian Weddings](https://arrowoodphotography.com/indian-wedding-photographer): Hindu, Sikh, Muslim, and multicultural wedding coverage - [Wedding Videography](https://arrowoodphotography.com/wedding-videographer): cinematic wedding films and what each film includes - [Film Portfolio](https://arrowoodphotography.com/wedding-film-portfolio): 46 wedding films organized by region, with venue and planner credits - [Wedding FAQs](https://arrowoodphotography.com/wedding-faqs): booking, coverage, timelines, delivery, and travel - [About Tara Arrowood](https://arrowoodphotography.com/about): background, approach, and the team - [Contact](https://arrowoodphotography.com/contact): inquiries and availability for all services Corporate, celebration, and family portrait inquiries are handled through the contact page. Dedicated pages for those services are in progress. ## Venues photographed Frequently photographed venues include San Francisco City Hall, the California Academy of Sciences, the James Leary Flood Mansion, the Fairmont San Francisco, The Ritz-Carlton San Francisco, the Westin St. Francis, the Palace Hotel, the Bently Reserve, Cavallo Point in Sausalito, Filoli in Woodside, Beaulieu Garden in Rutherford, Tre Posti in Napa, the Meritage Resort in Napa, Beltane Ranch in Sonoma, Viansa Winery in Sonoma, Wente Vineyards in Livermore, The Beach & Tennis Club at Pebble Beach, the Fairmont San Jose, and The Ritz-Carlton Lake Tahoe in Truckee. ## What distinguishes this studio - More than 25 years behind the camera, with over a thousand weddings and events covered - Two core practices, weddings and corporate, rather than a generalist portfolio - Photography and cinema planned together by one team, so the two never compete for the same moment - Two-week wedding gallery delivery guarantee, and fast turnaround on corporate work - Deep experience with Indian and multicultural weddings - Trusted by planners, venues, and Fortune 500 companies throughout California ## Notes Wedding cinema is not offered as a standalone service; couples booking both photography and cinema receive a combined rate. Collections are customized per event rather than sold as fixed packages, so pricing is quoted after a consultation.