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Pryce series at Celebrate the Web

July 23, 2010

Fill out the form below to get email updates about Pryce series… will be sending out an email very soon with a link to the exclusive clip we showed at Celebrate the Web during Comic Con in San Diego. Name: E-mail:

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FilmFellas behind the scenes – Film Fellas ASC Edition Cast 8

June 21, 2010

Zacuto Zacuto, makers of FilmFellas, is one of the best companies I’ve ever interacted with. The employees are happy, everyone is friendly and I even found out some inside information… employee benefits are amazing at Zacuto. So… naturally only the best of people work there and they really do give the best service.

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Time Lapse of Downtown Chicago river boat tour (and Lake Michigan)

June 21, 2010

When Vu and I attended the filming of FilmFellas 8 we were brought on a really cool boat tour of Downtown Chicago and Lake Michigan. Zacuto took us on the Free Spirit Yacht

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Same day edit fusion wedding video – Ree Todd wedding video

June 15, 2010

Music by Paul Dateh, used with permission Last weekend I had the pleasure of shooting a same day edit wedding fusion video for Southern California wedding photographers gabriel.ryan.photographers. Gabriel and his wife and partner Carlie Renee were the photographers for the wedding and they brought me on with the sole purpose of shooting and editing [...]

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Pittsburgh Lighting and Workflow Workshop on July 13th, 2010

June 10, 2010

We’ve teamed up with photographer Leeann Marie to help bring a full-day Bui Brothers “affordable lighting” workshop to the Pittsburgh, PA area on July 13th, 2010. Leeann will be handling all the logistics and venue planning, and we’ll be flying in to teach the workshop itself. Workshop Description Our “affordable lighting” workshop will teach you [...]

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Testing the Kessler Pocket Dolly

June 10, 2010

While in London for Converge Two, Vu and I were playing with Drew Gardner‘s Kessler Pocket Dolly… this is my first time using it.

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RED EPIC camera

June 6, 2010

First look at a real RED EPIC camera in the wild (Cine Gear Expo 2010) Up close with the RED EPIC camera Vu and I were at Cine Gear 2010 at The Studios at Paramount and were browsing the expo when we spotted a red epic camera.

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Converge 2 UK DSLR talk and workshop

April 29, 2010

Come see Vu and I in UK May 4 and 5 for Converge Two. We will be giving a one hour talk about video marketing and give real life examples of our video marketing success.

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SXSW 2010 DSLR Gear Presentation

April 24, 2010

At SXSW Interactive Vu and I gave a presentation about what DSLR gear we use and recommend using. We were very happy when Kent Nichols asked us to participate in the DSLR 3 part workshop SXSWi 2010. We were

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The Streamy Awards 2010

April 20, 2010

There has been so much talk about the Streamy Awards 2010 this year. Our experience of the awards show was magically unique because we were hidden away with one goal… to document the event with photographs. This is our version of motion portraits for the award winners and presenters. We knew nothing outside of our [...]

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Ft Lauderdale / Miami Lighting and Workflow Workshop on May 11, 2010

April 14, 2010

We’ve teamed up with photographer Lydia Shannon to help bring a full-day Bui Brothers “affordable lighting” workshop to the Ft. Lauderdale / Miami, Florida area on May 11th, 2010. Lydia will be handling all the logistics and venue planning, and we’ll be flying in to teach the workshop itself. Workshop Description Our “affordable lighting” workshop [...]

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SF East Bay Lighting Workshop | The Bui Brothers Workshops

April 5, 2010

Gustavo Fernandez was gracious enough to pretty much do all the work in setting up a lighting workshop for us to teach in Concord, CA the day after our talk at the SF East Bay SMUG (also hosted by Gustavo). All the gear we needed for the shoot was sponsored by borrowlenses.com: We were a [...]

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WPPI 2010 | The Bui Brothers in Vegas

March 25, 2010

photo by Lydia Shannon Wow, what a week in Vegas we had. I’m sure that same thought has passed the minds and fingers of many of the 12,000 or so attendants of WPPI 2010. It truly was

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How to – Canon T2i with EOS Movie Plugin-E1 Final Cut Pro

March 21, 2010

A few days ago Canon released the EOS Movie Plugin-E1 for Final Cut Pro (download it here). It is very exciting for all of us using the Canon DSLRs and Final Cut Pro. We (Vu and I) mostly use the Canon 5D mark II and Canon 7D for our videos…

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WPPI 2010 | What’s Going On With The Bui Brothers

March 4, 2010

Click to watch the live photo stream from 3/7 – 3/11 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 [...]

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WPPI Lighting Workshop?

February 14, 2010

Sold Out 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 [...]

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Should photographers go to SXSW?

February 9, 2010

(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) . First, for those that know what SXSW is and do not want to read this [...]

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Canon 7D Film Challenge (deathmatch)

November 4, 2009

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 [...]

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Canon 7D Slow Motion – 60p to 24p slowmo – test example

November 2, 2009

Canon 7D Slow Motion We took the 7D out and shot some fun footage at the West Hollywood Halloween Carnaval. The parts with audio were shot in 24p with the 7D and the slow motion parts were shot in 60p. We used cinema tools to conform the 60p videos to 24p, we could have slowed [...]

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