What's Happening At Matrix Digital Arts & Photography

Healthy Futures of Texas

2011-12-01T20:18:00.003-06:00

On Tuesday, November 29th, Matrix Digital Arts was honored to be the photographers covering the Lunch with the Mayor event, held at the Crowne Plaza in downtown San Antonio. This was a great event for a great cause, Healthy Futures of Texas.
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Lunch with the Mayor

2011-09-28T20:40:00.002-05:00

Matrix Digital Arts is excited to be chosen as the photographer for the Lunch with the Mayor event on November 29th. This is a special event hosted by Healthy Futures of Texas, a non-profit organization. This is their fourth annual event. Their mission is to prevent teen and unplanned pregnancy with today's youth using common ground measures that the community can support.
MDAP will be one of the sponsors providing professional quality photos of the numerous guests with the Mayor of San Antonio.

Bring It ON!

2011-05-14T21:15:00.003-05:00

Next weekend will be one of the busiest weekends that Matrix Digital Arts has experienced. Let's start with sending a team to Houston to shoot Basel's Gymfest for the 3rd year in a row. Meanwhile, we will be covering Brandeis High School's Annual All-Sports Banquet at Pedrottis. Additionally, we will also be shooting the Alamo City Youth Soccer Tournament sponsored by SeaWorld. Over 120 soccer teams have signed up, and this will be covered at two different locations in San Antonio. We are excited and honored to be selected as the official photographer at these events!

MDAP Chosen for City's Soccer Tournament

2011-04-17T17:34:00.003-05:00

Matrix Digital Arts & Photography has been chosen as the photographers for the upcoming Alamo City Youth Soccer Organization's Tournament.

Games will be played on Saturday, May 21 & Sunday, May 22. Games will be played at Alamo Sportsplex, the Classics Elite new soccer facility and additional venues if necessary.

We are excited to be part of this big event in San Antonio.

Time For Houston National Invitational

2011-02-20T19:26:00.005-06:00

The MDAP team is excited to return to the Houston National Invitational for the third year.
"We will have ten photographers available to cover this event in it's entirety", remarked Mr Holeda, the acting shoot director. "This is a special event too for the event director, John Basel, of Basel's Gymnastics", Holeda continued. "This year, the TNT segment is called the Winter Classic, for the elite athletes competing from all over the country."
Eric Aaron created a series of special photo templates for this year's event. "We plan on offering a 16x24 poster for the first time", Eric said. "Additionally, this will be our first year offering 6x9 prints of the portraits we take. With our new dye-sub digital printer, we will be producing these prints in less than 20 seconds on-site."
When the news was released in December that Matrix Digital Arts was again the official photographer, calls starting coming in from previous customers pre-ordering for this year. "We love this event", Michael said with a smile.

2011 Promises To Be A Great Year

2011-01-29T20:05:00.002-06:00

2011 is promising to be a great year for Matrix Digital Arts & Photography! With several weddings, senior portrait shoots, award banquets, and many national and international gymnastics events already booked for this year, Team MDAP is excited.

The Tower of Americas photo was taken by one of our photographers, Muhilan, on New Year's Eve. Muhilan joined our staff last September. His uncanny ability to capture not only vistas like this, but his perfect shutter timing for action-sports photos continues to satisfy our most demanding customer's taste for perfection.

18th Annual SPURS Cheer Competition

2010-12-11T05:53:00.003-06:00

The team at MDAP is preparing for the final cheer competition of this year, the 18th Annual SPURS Cheer Competition, at the AT&T Center on December 18th.
Competitors will also attend the Spurs game that evening, with the top two competing teams performing during half-time.
Photo of Isaiah Gonzalez, at the Texas Cheer and Dance Championship held last Sunday at the Durbon Athletic Center.

NCA Alamo City Spirit Championship

2010-11-06T19:16:00.002-05:00

Our team just finished shooting the NCA Alamo City Spirit Championship at Wagner High School in San Antonio. Thousands of images were taken during this great event. The parents loved the sampling of images we placed on our Flat Screen in HD. Nearly 50 cheer squads were captured during their outstanding performance during the competition.
Our team is looking forward to the next Cheer Competition, next Sunday!

Cheer Star Chooses Matrix Digital Arts!

2010-10-03T08:19:00.002-05:00

Matrix Digital Arts & Photography is honored to be chosen as the official photographer for Cheer Star Productions of San Antonio.

We will be providing photography coverage for three important upcoming events: Cheering in the Spirit of Giving on November 14th; Cheer Star Texas Cheer & Dance on December 5th; and San Antonio SPURS Cheer Competition on December 18th.

MDAP is in the Cloud

2010-09-25T07:45:00.002-05:00

Computer geeks will know exactly what we are talking about! But for those of you not current on today's massive web technology, let's explain. Matrix Digital Arts & Photography has teamed up with Rackspace Hosting of San Antonio. Our website is moving to a cloud web hosting complex. What does this mean for our customers?

"No more down time", says Michael Holeda, Executive Director for MDAP. "We have received far too many phone calls from our clients complaining that either our website was extremely slow, or wasn't even available."

"That's one of the disadvantages of using shared web services", Michael continued. "When your site is hosted on a server with hundreds of other companies across the country, customers experience slow response or complete outages."

The team at Matrix Digital Arts is very excited about this move. In addition to providing extremely fast response to our web pages during peak periods, we also now have another off-site safe archival storage for thousands of images. Plus, MDAP will have the most responsive email and scheduling service available to the business market today.

Bottom line? Better customer service on all fronts!

Transition to the new web hosting facility will take a few days to complete, and will appear seamless to our customer base.

Matrix Digital Arts Earns BBB Accreditation

2010-08-30T21:07:00.005-05:00

PRESS RELEASE August 30th, 2010

This week, Matrix Digital Arts & Photography announced its recent accreditation by BBB Serving Central, Coastal and Southwest Texas. As a BBB Accredited Business, Matrix Digital Arts is dedicated to promoting trust in the photography marketplace.

According to BBB reports by Princeton Research, seven in ten consumers say they are more likely to do business with a company designated as BBB Accredited Business. BBB is a resource for the public, providing objective, unbiased information about businesses.

"We are excited to be a BBB Accredited Business because we value building trust with our customers, " said Mr Holeda, Executive Director and Co-Founder. "Our BBB Accreditation gives our customers confidence in our commitment to maintaining high ethical standards of conduct."

"Start with trust, the motto used by BBB is appropriate for customers looking for a photographer," says Eric Aaron, Co-Founder and Director of Special Events. "Customer Service is not a department with us," Eric continued. "It's an attitude!"

BBB Accredited Businesses must adhere to BBB's "Standards of Trust," a comprehensive set of policies, procedures, and best practices representing trustworthiness in the marketplace.

"This is very important to us," continued Mr. Holeda. "We are honored to receive this accreditation. In today's marketplace of photographers, consumers need to have the ability to check out a business for it's validity, and trust!"

The BBB seal will soon begin to appear on the company's website directing prospective customers to the actual current report on Matrix Digital Arts.

27 Tournament Basketball Games

2010-08-22T07:10:00.003-05:00

On behalf of Texas Team Sports of San Antonio, our team of photographers covered 27 tournament basketball games over this past weekend. Friday evening, 5 games were shot at the Jewish Community Center; 15 games on Saturday, 7 games Sunday, at the Barbara Bush Middle School. Most of the games were semi-finals, and on Sunday, MDAP returned to cover the finals, "winner takes all!" Thousands of images were taken, over 60 gigs total. Now the real fun begins!

We Welcome Texas Team Sports

2010-08-08T13:47:00.003-05:00

Our first assignment: Cover six youth basketball games in three hours!

This was great fun watching our future superstars play at their best.

Click Here to view a quick snapshot of the highlights.

Welcome Rob Dicus!

2010-08-01T08:20:00.002-05:00

Matrix Digital Arts would like to welcome Rob Dicus as our new Associate Photographer. Rob brings to our team of photographers a new and different perspective to what he sees through the lens.

Currently a student of the New York Institute of Photography, Rob particularly centers his photography skills on portraiture and formal events. Recently Rob assisted Eric Aaron at a Quinceanera.

Rob and his wife live in San Antonio and are enjoying the company of their newborn baby boy.

Matrix Digital Arts Announces New Education Fund At Expo

2010-07-25T19:43:00.007-05:00

During the Quinceanera Expo held on Sunday, July 25th at the San Antonio Event Center, Matrix Digital Arts kicked off a new promotion to help fund the future education of all Quinceanera and Sweet 16 Girls. With thousands in attendance, visitors learned that Matrix Digital Arts will return fifty percent of all on-line sales of photos for the Quince that occur in a thirty day period. A check representing half of all on-line sales from friends, guests, etc, will be presented to the father of the young lady as a contribution to her education fund. "Quinceaneras and Sweet 16 parties are held by proud parents at great expense", Michael Holeda, co-founder, remarked. "So we would like to make a contribution to her future education in appreciation of being selected as their photographer of this very important event in her life."

See Us At the Quinceaneras and Brides Expo

2010-06-27T11:20:00.003-05:00

Matrix Digital Arts will have a booth at this year's Quinceaneras and Brides Expo at the San Antonio Event Center on July 25th. Be sure to drop by to meet our photographers.

Click Here to View Our Sweet 16 Quinceanera Page

Click Here to View a Recent Sweet 16 Video

Rugby Exhibition Game

2010-05-28T20:00:00.012-05:00

We were commissioned to provide coverage for the San Antonio Rugby Football Club Exhibition game with the Bedlinog (Wales) Rugby Football Club on Sunday, May 30th.

We are honored to be chosen as the official photographers to cover this event.

Action-packed game. Photographers Eric Aaron and Michael Holeda covered the event with a total of about 1000 images. Click on the photo to view a collage sampling of a few photos.

To view the gallery, click here.

The Rush For Senior Portraits

2010-05-08T17:30:00.019-05:00

The last couple weeks has seen a flood of requests at MDAP for senior portraits.

With graduations beginning in a week or two, many parents suddenly realized time was running out to get their son or daughter's portrait completed. The emails and phone calls started coming in.

"All of our shoots are done on location." said Michael Holeda. "Although we do receive a request from time to time for the standard cap & gown graduation portrait, but most of our clients want the new look for senior portraiture."

There are the usual popular places our photographers travel to here in San Antonio. From the Japanese Tea Gardens to the River Walk. But the photographers at Matrix Digital Arts like to seek out new and exciting locations, something fresh and different. Recently, a shoot was conducted at Randolph Air Force Base at the skate park. Another shoot was held in the countryside in a field full of antique farm implements and an old pick up truck.

Stay tuned for 2011! New locations a more creative styles are on the horizon.

Texas State Championship - Austin

2010-04-11T19:07:00.008-05:00

We recently had the opportunity to shoot at the Texas State Championship in Austin. This was a tremendous event for us in many ways.

With around 500 athletes, Level 6 or higher, our photographers were able to catch the best in every athlete. David Racino decided he wanted to focus on the vault event. Many photographers at gymnastics competition will shy away from shooting this because it is the most challenging. David nailed the shots!
Rusty Ray, another one of our talented photographers concentrated on the P-Bars and High Bar. Like David, he too came up with many great shots of the competing athletes.
We want to thank the great folks of Star Gymnastics of Austin for asking us to shoot this event. We received many complements to our staff of photographers, and also requests to shoot future events, including regionals next year. As of today, we are presently booked for four state, regional and national events for 2011. This success is attributed to the professionalism of our event photographers, Erik Gustafson, David Racino, and Rusty Ray. Of course, we can't forget to include Janice Borgfeld and Eric Aaron. They were busy answering questions from customers at the sales booth, and communicating to our photographers on the floor via our wireless radios.

Houston National Invitational - Our Photographers

2010-03-16T20:46:00.003-05:00

Appearing Left to Right: Erik Gustafson; David Racino; Eric Aaron; Joe Kabanek; Christina Moore; Janice Borgfeld; Jaime Rivera; Mark Muniz; Michael Holeda; Antonio Morano. Not pictured: Rusty Ray.

Our shoot at this year's Houston National Invitational was our largest ever effort. Over 2500 athletes, with as many as 22 athletes competing at the same time! With 10 photographers, thousands and thousands of images were taken. Fourteen hour days, but nobody complained. A tremendous experience for all of us. As a direct result of our team's professionalism, we have already begun to receive calls to shoot other events. Next: Texas State Championship in Austin!

Time for the Houston National Invitational

2010-02-16T20:32:00.011-06:00

The team at Matrix Digital Arts is preparing for another important event, The Houston National Invitational. This year, we have been asked to shoot an additional event, with 1500 athletes, many past, present, and future Olympians. We will have ten photographers on the floor capturing the important competitive events of these young men and women from all over the world. Participants will have the opportunity to have their images applied to a special commemorative poster we commissioned to be designed for this event. The image on the right is our 39x80" floor banner.

This year, our photographers and crew will be wearing wireless headsets to ensure our ability to keep in touch with each other and communicate with the sales area.

Additionally, we will be launching our new storefront with a completely new line of products the parents will be able to choose from, including the ability to design their own poster on-line.

We are humbled to be chosen as the photographers for this special event. Watch our blog and our website for additional details.

High School Senior Portraits - Schedule Now!

2010-01-10T16:52:00.008-06:00

Matrix Digital Arts & Photography has added a new line of photography service to its menu. We now shoot high school senior photos. These aren’t your typical year book photos. The photos are built around the personality and life of the individual high school senior and shot on location at the site of your choice. Some of our favorite locales for the ladies are the San Antonio River Walk, the Tea Gardens, and the McNay. Next month we are doing a senior shoot at a skate park at a military base for a senior that loves skate boarding.

We have developed 3 very competitive packages for you to choose from with the option of adding additional high quality photographic products.

Keep an eye on our website for samples of recent shoots. Contact us when your high school senior is ready for his or her shots of a lifetime.

We are your San Antonio Senior Photographers!

Click on the Flyer to view full size

Video Slideshows Now Provided for Facebook, MySpace, IPhones

2010-01-10T16:42:00.006-06:00

All major shoot events now include a DVD slideshow presentation which is also uploaded to ShareIt.com. This gives you the opportunity to share it with all your friends by either sending them the ShareIt link, or posting it on your Facebook or MySpace. The following link is an example of a recent event. Sweet Sixteen
Posted using ShareThis

Dave Gast Says "Hello"

2009-12-12T18:41:00.004-06:00

Many of our loyal patrons know that our Director of Action Sports Photography, Dave Gast, is presently serving our country in the middle east. Here is a recent photo that he has provided us. Check our website in the future for a webpage of many of his photos while on assignment.

MDAP To Hold It's First Annual Christmas Dinner

2009-11-28T20:25:00.005-06:00

MDAP will host it's first annual Christmas Dinner at the newly opened Fogo de Chao in San Antonio on December 11th. "With the economy being the worse in decades," Michael Holeda says, " we have still experienced a tremendous growth in 2009." Michael, co-founder of Matrix Digital Arts wants to show appreciation to MDAP's staff by holding it's first annual dinner. "Our team has worked hard, and because of their dedication, professionalism, and expertise, they should to be recognized," Michael said. Matrix Digital Arts & Photography has been serving the Metro San Antonio area for five years, with it's primary studio offices located in Universal City, TX. (Copy of Official News Release)

Sweet Sixteen at the Randolph AFB E-Club

2009-11-18T20:27:00.008-06:00

Wow! Eric & Joe shot a Sweet 16 party at the Randolph E-Club last Saturday night. I don't know about Eric, but I forgot how energetic 16 is and how loud the music is. My ears are still ringing! LOL! But it was a great time. Such a warm, welcoming family that special young lady has - and she is so very gracious. Thanks to Shakari and her family for a great opportunity!

All Work and No Play - Not Always

2009-11-06T19:24:00.009-06:00

We look forward every two years when RAFB hosts the air show. These photos were taken during their practice sessions in preparation for the air show this weekend.

You can click on each image to get a full view with detail.

Since RAFB is right across from our primary studio offices, it's makes it easier to pick up a shot or two as these great marvels of American technology fly over head. If you haven't seen the F22 fly, you must! It's strange to watch this fighter jet stop in mid-air and hover.

MDAP Prepares For Important Shoot At Cordi-Marian

2009-11-03T07:53:00.005-06:00

Matrix Digital Arts & Photography is honored to be the official photographer at this major fund raising event on November 14th. In addition to covering the event as a photojournalist, we also have been asked to provide portrait shots to interested guests.

This is a big event, not only for Matrix, but also for Cordi-Marian. Important, well-known community leaders, will be present for the Gala.

MDAP also produced a short video presentation which highlights Cordi-Marian, and their need to build a new chapel. The Sisters had exhausted all their personal funds to complete the construction of the new Retreat Facility. The video provides a quick pictorial and video presentation showing the barn that they have been using for many of the retreat gatherings, the old chapel, and the new chapel under construction. We were pleased to learn that our presentation is being broadcast on Catholic Television San Antonio, and as well as other networks.

Over 9,300 Images Taken

2009-10-25T20:30:00.009-05:00

Matrix Digital Arts just completed coverage of the District Level 5 Gymnastics Qualifier in San Antonio by shooting over 9,000 images in a 19 hour shoot at Aerial Athletics.

Thanks to all team members for making this shoot successful including our photographers Eric Aaron, Joe Kabanek, Mark Muniz, and David Racino.

A lot of hard work and dedication by our team members was evident throughout this shoot. Our kudos to Aerial Athletics for conducting a well organized and managed meet which helped make this shoot enjoyable.

This was a repeat engagement for MDAP. Having shot this event a year ago gave many team members a "lift" hearing parents remark, "Glad you are back again this year!"

Photographer Mark Muniz Joins Matrix Digital Arts

2009-10-21T21:42:00.006-05:00

We are please to announce that Mark Muniz has joined our staff of professional photographers.

With 18 years of experience as a photographer, Mark will be a welcomed addition to our team. He will be assisting us with our contract engagements in action-sports, and assisting in our more formal engagements. His first shoot with us will be with Eric Aaron early Sunday morning for a Sweet Sixteen Formal, then joining other team members at Aerial Athletics for a gymnastics competition event.

David Racino Joins Matrix Digital Arts

2009-10-18T07:03:00.002-05:00

We are happy to announce that David Racino of San Marcos has joined our staff of photographers. David will be part of our Action-Sports Department assisting our other photographers at our current contract engagements for gymnastics competition, football, and basketball.

David's background is rich in sports photography. Previously, he worked as the sports photographer for the Texas State University Star Newspaper. We are excited about having David as a part of our growing team of photographers.

Shipping Off to Qatar

2009-10-17T20:19:00.001-05:00

Dave Gast, our Action Sports Director will be leaving us for a year. He has received an assignment to Qatar. Dave, Chief Master Sargent in the U.S.A.F. will be missed not only by his team mates but also by our customers while he serves our country. MDAP plans to set up a special page with updates from Dave, and photos that he is able to send to us. God Bless You Dave!

We Finally Did It

2009-10-17T19:37:00.000-05:00

Hi There Everyone!

Well there is so much going on around Matrix Digital Arts & Photography these days!

First thing, we finally set up a blog. We will use this to keep all of our customers up to date with new happenings, and specials. So stay tuned and watch for additional updates!

Michael