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.
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 – Original Music
Note on the music: Paul Dateh and Ken Belcher made the original soundtrack for this video. Yes… they scored a video blog video. Pure awesome. (Oh… and Paul is giving away his album a song at a time).
Tech note: The video was shot entirely on a Canon 5D mark II and a Nikon D90. The 3D titles were done in Photoshop and Motion 3. The video was edited in iMovie (yes, iMovie is good).
Lastly, here is one more photo from the photo shoot:
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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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Canon 7D Slow Motion
We took the Canon 7D out and shot some fun footage at the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval. The parts with audio were shot in 24p with the Canon 7D and the slow motion parts were shot in 60p. We used cinema tools to conform the 60p videos to 24p, we could have [...]
We have been fortunate enough to have photographed some amazing talent (and great people) in the past year… and two of our clients and now-friends (Veronica Belmont and Brigitte Dale) have been featured on G4 Television’s Attack of the Show – Women of the Web, with our photographs being showcased on their television program.
This lead [...]
A few weeks ago Vu and I shot Paul Dateh and Ken Bencher’s first music video. Here is a quick behind the scenes look into what we did while shooting the video for 99 dollar music videos.
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May 25th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Excellent Video Guys! Veronica is already beautiful, but you guys showed her beauty in a different light!
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May 25th, 2009 at 11:08 am
Where’s the video footage of her bare shoulders photos? =(
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veronica reply on May 25th, 2009 11:31 am:
@Steven, Carlie and I snuck off to do those without the boys around! :)
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May 25th, 2009 at 11:14 am
so fun!! i miss that trip. especially the take out of appetizers and clam chowder in a bread bowl. seriously, veronica is a stunner. ;)
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vubui reply on May 25th, 2009 11:37 am:
@carlie, omg Carlie YES chowder! That was such a good trip.
And yeah Veronica is quite the beauty.
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Lan Bui reply on May 26th, 2009 3:23 pm:
@carlie, Don’t worry, I have another video on the way that just has out fun travels in it. Chowder is how it ends. Remember how tired we were after?
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May 25th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Great video, and Veronica looks amazing.
What kind of ringlight was that? It’s gargantuan!
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vubui reply on May 25th, 2009 12:15 pm:
@Doug Luberts, That’s the Alien Bees ABR800. It’s affordable, does an extremely good job and has lots of accessories so you can do a lot of different stuff with it.
The one downside is that it’s a little big… but we’re used to it so it doesn’t occur to us anymore.
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Doug Luberts reply on May 25th, 2009 1:28 pm:
@vubui, Thx. It looks like another item to add to my Alien Bees to-buy list. I really like there stuff.
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May 25th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Thanks for posting behind the scenes video. As a photo enthusiast, I always love seeing the behind the scenes footage of a photo shoot.
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Lan Bui reply on May 26th, 2009 3:29 pm:
@Bim, I’m very glad you enjoyed it. I remember I would always wish photographers would make behind the scenes videos just to see what it was like during their shoots. That is a pretty big reason why we post a video for (almost) all of our shoots.
We love to share!
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May 25th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Excellent video – great to see the creative process at work.
The video was done with a 5D ? Damn, I want me one of those.
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Lan Bui reply on May 26th, 2009 3:50 pm:
@Jon Biddell, Thanks! The video was shot on both the Canon 5D mark II and the Nikon D90. Both excellent DSLRs with video.
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May 26th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Way to rock it Bui style my friends. Love the music complement by Paul Dateh and Ken Belcher – made you feel as if I was there with you guys. Keep it going…LG
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May 26th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Fantastic work guys. As always.
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May 26th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
hiiii…
what a wonderful smile! ill try to do that like you… just a moment… :)… noo =)…noo hmm i loose :D and god damn this music!!!
a movie that gives someone reasons to smile…
thank you :)
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May 26th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Great video but I would have loved to have seen a bunch of the photos in the video at the end of the video.
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Lan Bui reply on May 26th, 2009 4:14 pm:
@Tim Street, Thanks for the suggestion Tim!
I didn’t do that in this video because I assumed everyone already saw all of the photos… if anyone has not please check them out here:
http://thebuibrothers.com/blog/2009/01/veronica-belmont-photoshoot/
Don’t worry Tim, I’ll do that for you in Felicia Day’s BTS video!
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May 26th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Why won’t she marry me?
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Lan Bui reply on June 2nd, 2009 10:43 am:
@JD Grant, Because of douchebag comments like this.
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JD Grant reply on June 2nd, 2009 10:51 am:
@Lan Bui, i <3 u.
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June 1st, 2009 at 9:10 pm
I rarely stop or make/have time to watch videos these days… But I always take the time and give my undivided attention to what you guys do.
Another fan-freakin-tastic video that made me feel like I was there.
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June 2nd, 2009 at 4:49 pm
awesome video !!!!
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June 2nd, 2009 at 10:08 pm
I absolutely love this video, and the photos are quite amazing!
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July 15th, 2009 at 9:47 am
i think the intro and outro music is from Switchfoot’s “C’mon C’mon.” If you are going to credit Paul Dateh and Ken Belcher, you should include Switchfoot too. =)
youtube link for reference: http://bit.ly/yBfN6
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vubui reply on July 15th, 2009 9:55 am:
Hello switchfootfan, the song we use for our intro and outro is actually Pendulum… a royalty free song included with Apple Soundtrack.
Being royalty free, it’s most likely that Switchfoot used the riff from it, and not the other way around.
We ALWAYS credit where credit is due and wouldn’t use copyrighted material anyway… credit or not.
Thank you for the heads up, but in this case you’re mistaken.
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Lan Bui reply on July 15th, 2009 10:05 am:
@switchfootfan, Thanks for trying to contribute to the conversation.
The song used in our video intro and outro is called Pendulum and is used royalty free from Apple (it either comes with garageband or soundtrack).
So it seems that Switchfoot either sold it to Apple or is also using it from Apple. Either way, we are using it properly within it’s license.
We do not use music we do not have proper licensing to. Your suggestion of crediting them would still not put us within legal licensing rights to the music. Unless they have that song released under a license that allows for that, but from the video you posted it does not seem that way.
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July 15th, 2009 at 9:59 am
thanks for the explanation. i was worried about that. i had googled around to see if they were covering a song, but i missed that one. thanks!
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July 31st, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Wow… this is what Ryan Block comes home to…
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