Anyone who follows The Bui Brothers’ photography at all has probably noticed that we don’t really shoot many guys. We’ve done some headshots here and there and shot Schlomo earlier this year… but we’re REALLY lacking in guy photos outside of wedding/engagement shoots. Apparently we do fashion photography of women only.
Tracie not only pointed this out… but also offered a start to the solution. Micah is her friend and she set up a shoot for us and came up with the theme for the day as well… a silent film actor. Never much one for using a shoot day for only one look… I decided on 3 we all liked… and environmental portrait of Micah in his “element”, a fashion photography set, and the silent film set which was the point of the whole shoot.
The first was a simple environmental portrait. It shows Micah in his room… in front of a bookcase full of DVDs and small collectibles… and topped with a movie poster for Vertigo.
We then went out to the yard-ish area for a few “post-apocalyptic” (if the apocalypse destroyed everything but a nice stash of clean clothes and a garden gnome) fashion photography shots.
After this we hopped out front of the house for an shot lit from the front by a street light… with backlighting of the telephone pole, satellite dish and tree provided by the security lights of the restaurant out at the main street.
Then… for the main set… Micah changed into an interesting looking suit and Tracie applied a bit of makeup to create “creepy silent film Micah”. He was a lot like regular Micah except for the extreme creepiness and eye liner. We went down to Old Town Orange for these ones… the architecture there fit perfectly.
The video gives a small behind the scenes glance (literally just a glance) at the shoot. This is Tracie’s first video (she shot almost all of it AND edited the whole thing on her new MacBook Pro) and I think it does a good job (mostly due to the excellent choice of music) of properly creating a mood for the photos. Oh, and the video was shot entirely on the iPhone 3GS. Enjoy!
Great shoot. Love the pics. Can you talk a little about the lighting and set up in a follow up post? Puhleeeeze….
Thanks Jeffery! Um… yes! I’ll do a post on The Bui Brothers blog with more details about the lighting. Cool?
excellent
whoever added the little gnome is a genius.
those downtown stills are completely cool
but all in all I like the first one the best
Woohoo I’m a genius! :)
Thanks Katherine!
you rock the party, rock the party. that first one and the last one make me wanna cry. they are wicked cool. YOU RULE.
Woohoo thanks! I am certainly glad I was able to make you wanna cry.
It’s a goal of mine.
Always love checking out your projects, Vu. Awesome stuff through and through! The follow up blog post with the lighting details is fantastic! Oh and great job making Jen wanna cry :) -Mike
Thanks, Mike!
Yeah I’m trying to share as much info as possible but I forget sometimes… hence the separate posts. ;)
Glad you enjoyed it all!
Love, love, love the one on the stairs. I mean, they are all good, but the one on the stairs is really fantastic.
Thanks Steve!
That one is my favorite as well.
Really means a lot to me that you even like ‘em!
You guys are ridiculous! LOVE it! BTW sorry to be such a slacker on the lunch thing…moving has kind of taken over my life right now.
Thanks Amy!
No problem… we’ll do it eventually. :)