Vu and I were so happy to be hired to shoot The Guild Season Three DVD cover!!! We were fortunate enough to have done a photo shoot of Felicia Day before and when we got the call to shoot the DVD for The Guild Season 3 we got very excited. (Thank you so much Kim [...]
A few weeks ago, Vu and I (The Bui Brothers) had a great time shooting photos of Justine Ezarik. You may know her as iJustine… if that is the case, please enjoy these photos of iJustine.
One of our goals was to give iJustine photos of herself that were unique and something out of her element. [...]
Makeup, styling and video (her first ever) by Tracie Cotta. Video shot entirely on iPhone 3GS.
Tracie set up this shoot with Micah, choosing “silent film” as our look for the shoot. We decided on Old Town Orange as the location… having an older look than most areas in Orange County. We also decided to add [...]
A few weeks ago Vu and I were given the pleasure of shooting Felicia Day to give her updated headshots and some awesome promo images. If you don’t know who Felicia Day is, here is a bit about her taken from her website:
Felicia is most widely known for her work in web video, and co-starred [...]
Here it is!!! The long awaited behind the scenes video from Veronica Belmont’s photo shoot with The Bui Brothers.
We could not have done this without the help of the following wonderful people:
Veronica Belmont – Awesome Girl
Schlomo Rabinowitz and House of Shields bar – Killer location
Carlie Renee – Makeup and Style
Paul Dateh and Ken Belcher – [...]
Vu and I had been waiting for just about a year to do photos for Sarah Atwood. I think the wait was well worth it, everything came out awesome.
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If you would like to see a few more proper headshots of Sarah take a look at Los Angeles headshots of Sarah Atwood on my blog. If [...]
We’re speaking at the Video Marketing Expo going on in Austin right now, with Brigitte Dale and many other awesome people (we’ll share more later).
I just wanted to quickly post the video we played as the intro to our keynote presentation… showing how we like to do behind-the-scenes videos of our shoots… then the “final [...]
Lan and I were flown to Cancun by Doug and Lawrence (Furious Photographers) to shoot a photographer’s promo video of them. They somehow booked two weddings back to back in Cancun… with a Day After session after the second wedding (which actually won’t happen until tomorrow).
As part of our project we were also delivering a [...]
Khara Plicanic of Kabloom Studios contacted us about shooting a promo video for her some time last summer, starting the conversation… of course… via Twitter DM. Remember when you had to actually pick up a phone or even drive down to their shop to hire someone for something? Anyhow… she is super cool and fun [...]
The Streamy Awards Official Photographers: The Bui Brothers
The Bui Brothers present The Streamy Awards photos. As the official photographers of the Streamy Awards we would like to present to you a recap of the night with these select photos. Click on any photo to visit the flickr set where you can see all of the [...]
When is a rainy day a bad day for a shoot??? Never, that is what we learned.
I’m sure you already know who Brigitte Dale is. If you don’t… she is Yahoo! Video Best Internet Personality of the Year 2008, a triple century video blogger (only 18 more and she will be quad century) who [...]
A few nights ago we shot a good friend of ours, Rudy Jahchan because he needed an updated headshot. Here is our favorite from the shoot:
Lan and I have been fans of Battlestar Galactica for quite a while… though he was into it well before me. I had thought it was a bit too geeky sounding for me… but finally he got me to agree to watch the mini-series… and I was hooked.
Anastasia and Matt do the successful shows BSGcast [...]
Last month Vu, Carlie and I went to San Francisco to shoot a few peoples photographs. You may have seen Neha Tiwari’s or Sarah Lane’s floating around; but we had two more photo shoots while we were there… Schlomo Rabinowitz and Veronica Belmont. You are going to have to wait a bit more to see [...]
Vu and I have been working with Dane Sanders on a new exciting project for the last few months. If you don’t know who Dane is, he is a Wedding Photographer who is also an educational leader in his industry. You can find out about him here.
Ask Dane is a weekly video blog where Dane [...]
Neha was the reason Vu and I planned a photo trip to San Francisco. She had contacted me a long time ago (after she saw Veronica Belmont’s previous shoots by us) and asked if we would ever be in the San Franciso area so we could do some photos for her. At the time we [...]
This morning before we left San Francisco, from our 3 day photo trip, we met up with Sarah Lane for a 15 minute headshot photo shoot. You may know her from TV shows such as The Screen Savers and Attack of the Show, or an IPTV show PopSiren.
The shoot took place in Fisherman’s Warf and [...]
Vu and I had a great time at the KISSmas Party. Here is a quick video of the night!
Technical note:
All of the footage is from Nikon D90’s. They are pretty great at video!
Vu and I shot the amazing woman known to many of her fans as Zadi the Hottie (TM) to give her some updated headshots as well as some Bad Ass Cool Ass photos. Zadi is the host and co-creator of a web show and community called EPIC FU. If you want to watch one of [...]
Here is the new Shootsac sale video! We have so much fun doing these videos for them.
During the shoot on the beach someone from New York came up to Jessica Claire and asked to take a picture of her. She gladly posed. I wonder what story that person will tell her friends when she shows [...]
This is the second teaser for Gabriel and Carlie’s new video suite, set to release within the next few weeks in conjunction with their new website.
This video was shot in Hawaii, and is our second example of 3D text living in a motion video world. For those of you who watch TV, you [...]
The Boudoir Divas, Kimberlee West and Marissa Boucher, are an amazing photography duo based in San Diego who teach boudoir photography to both aspiring and experienced photographers. Lan and I met with them a few months back and we instantly connected with their vision to educate and work with other photographers. They will be offering [...]
When Gabriel and Carlie told us they wanted to make the promo video to end all promo videos, we were totally excited. Their work is fantastic and we love working with people we can really connect with and work creatively together. This is a little preview of things to come. Very soon.
Sign [...]
We, Lan Bui and Vu Bui (The Bui Brothers), were hired to fly out to New York City to shoot another episode of Shoot The Sh!t with Jessica Claire. This is a comedic series of videos we made for The [ b ] School Blog that has been very popular. Jessica Claire is so awesome [...]
A few weeks ago Vu and I had the pleasure of shooting some amazing things for Kimberlee West and Marissa Boucher… known together to the world as The Boudoir Divas. We can’t tell you much about what we were shooting, but here is a short promo video we put together for them with some of the extra footage [...]
Carlie can dance. Check out Dance Carlie Dance, our latest project, to see just how well.
Click the embed icon on the player (the one that looks like “<”) to embed this promo video on your blog, and Carlie can dance for you!
This is a super short post to follow up the last one, it announces our iTunes gift card winner, Katie Beverly… and also gives a final thought (for now) on Twitter.
Here’s Katie, follow her on Twitter!
We could have done another long tutorial, but the offerings out there are changing so fast that it would be obsolete [...]
UPDATE: The TRACK feature is currently disabled by Twitter. We hope they bring it back soon!!!
(scroll down for iTunes gift card giveaway info)
This long (11 minutes) video was made for our photographer friends who are just now getting into Twitter. It’s the longest video we’ve ever made… and is only part 1 of 2… we’re [...]
We actually made this promo in 2006 when we first were going to start this blog. It just didn’t happen until now.
Lan and I were flown to Cancun by Doug and Lawrence (Furious Photographers) to shoot a photographer’s promo video of them. They somehow booked two weddings back to back in Cancun… with a Day After session after the second wedding (which actually won’t happen until tomorrow).
As part of our project we were also delivering a short video for each couple, so we were essentially shooting two videos at each wedding. For Tiffany and Ly, we decided to do a same-day edit of their AMAZING wedding incorporating photos shot by Doug and Lawrence. Their photos were great, and we got some wonderful footage. I suppose you’d call this a same-day fusion-video, using both photos and video together instead of one or the other or two separate presentations.
We’ll be doing a full edit in the coming weeks, but this is what we showed at the reception, thankfully to a oohs and aahs then a wonderful applause at the end. Tiffany and Ly were literally a dream couple to work with… not just by having a gorgeous wedding but as people who were genuine, easy going and just plain fun.
TECH: Obviously there was no time for adjustments, effects or transitions, those will come later. For those wondering, it was shot on a 5D mark II and a Canon HV20 on a Steadicam Merlin, edited in Final Cut Pro, exported and sent to iMovie to add the photos (because it’s easy!). The video was presented on a MacBook Pro to the guests and delivered to the couple on an iPod Touch. Furious Photographers don’t fool around.
MUSIC: 2012 – Story of A Boy – music.podshow.com
(the song is temporary, we actually used a Sigur Ros song for the presentation, but needed to quickly choose something else for us to post online)
Enough talk, watch the video.
-Vu
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The day is almost upon us… when we toss aside thoughts of sleep, rest or relaxation and drown ourselves in a sea of fellow photographers who want to soak in everything they can from the multitudes that surround them.
People attend WPPI for such a variety [...]
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We’ve been contacted by a few people in the past few days asking if we’d be doing a lighting workshop at WPPI. Our answer for the first two people was a quick no, but after the third we started to reconsider.
We are giving a 4-hour outdoor on-location lighting workshop for Sunday afternoon (the [...]
(I’ve been meaning to write about photographers and SXSW for a while when suddenly yesterday I received a message from Jasmine Star asking the exact question I wanted to answer… Thanks Jasmine for motivating me to actually write this)
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First, for those that know what SXSW is and do not want to read this post… Yes, [...]
It has been quite a while since we shot this promo video for Furious Photographers… I think the result is still pretty awesome.
Furious Photographers hired us to go with them to Cancun and Isla Mujeres to shoot two weddings back to back. Well… we were there to shoot a promo of them and not really [...]
This page is the home of the Canon 7D Film Challenge (or we can call it a deathmatch, some of you OG people remember…)
We will update you here as things advance and ideas grow… but for now here is the idea:
1. Shoot on a Canon 7D
2. Take only 7 hours to complete EVERYTHING
3. Final video [...]
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