I’m on a four and a half hour flight from Las Vegas to Jacksonville, FL, and I’m feeling quite comfortable right now as I type this into the handy WordPress app on my iPhone. Sure, the old woman beside me smells a bit smokey… but she’s friendly, quiet, isn’t using the armrest between us (even [...]
I’ve been trying to lose weight, with some temporary successes, but overall unsuccessfully, for years. Many many years. Well, then again I suppose it depends on your definition of trying. Trying, to some (and by some I mean lazy fatties like me) can sometimes mean wanting to lose weight… feeling guilty about eating too much… [...]
I actually wrote 606 words this morning then deleted it all… I wasn’t happy with where it was going and needed to start fresh… but after writing 606 words straight I needed some time before I started again. The writing this morning was all about workshops in the photo industry. But I really wasn’t happy [...]
When Joe Philipson asked me to accompany him to Japan Nite at The Viper Room over the phone from Austin while he was hanging out at the SXSW Music Festival I just said yes. I didn’t really even know what the heck he was talking about. Seriously… it sounded cool… but I still had no [...]
Today is April 1st, and the first day of a few projects I’m trying to start or revive. One of them is this attempt at a daily written blog. The idea came from 750words.com, which is a site that reminds you and allows you to write 750 (or more) words a day… the idea being [...]
I don’t want to go so far as to actually lay claim to anything she’s doing right now… but Lydia spent most of WPPI with Lan and I and is truly embracing videoblogging and things we’ve spoken with her about in her business… and for that (in addition to her fantastic talent as a photographer) [...]
I am all for marketing yourself in the smartest and most creative ways possible. I think people need to stand out in a sea of competition… show their personality or whatever else makes them unique and attractive to hire. We all already know that Facebook and Twitter are great for this. You get to build [...]
Although pretty much all of my recent clients know about Dropbox (because I pretty much force them to use it so they can get their deliverables) I feel as though there are still tons of people I know who do not… and this post is for them. Or perhaps I should say it is for [...]
Aardvark Aardvark is a service that allows you to ask a question to the community… and it will send that question to someone who is available and might know the answer (based on categories that its members sign up for) and then typically provides you an answer within 5 minutes by one of these other [...]
Tracie did an amazing job on my makeup… and she’ll be posting a video about how she did it soon… but good or not, it was hard to open my mouth wide enough to eat with my fake torn lip and protruding teeth. :P Lan shot a whole set of photos… here is one of [...]
Click for HD I heard about this iPhone app called TiltShift this morning (though it’s been out for some time now)… and had to try it out for myself. From what I’ve seen there are a few of them out there… but this one looked to me to be the most interesting one. It’s $1.99 [...]
Click fullscreen to view in HD! Tracie put together a nice video compilation of some of the different places we visited on O’ahu… using footage from the Canon T1i, her little point-and-shoot Canon SD800IS, and my iPhone 3GS. The underwater scenes were shot with the Ewa-marine underwater housing on the Canon T1i. She made the [...]
click fullscreen to view in HD In keeping with the low-budget nature of the Hawaii Trip, I decided to actually make some of my own gear. I didn’t get to do everything I had hoped (time has a way of slipping by quickly when you’re planning something big) but the flash grid project I was [...]
click fullscreen to view in HD Click to play in HD Tracie and I took the Ewa-marine underwater housing out for a first test in the swimming pool in my apartment complex. The video above should show you everything you need to know to get started with it… and know if it will work for [...]
Crepes at Le Creperie in Paris Las Vegas with BonnyBonny and Tracie. This is my first videoblog post created, uploaded and posted entirely on the iPhone.
click fullscreen to view in HD This video shows and explains all the gear I brought on the Hawaii Photo Fusion trip. Everything was selected specifically for low-budget shooting. I was confident that even with the entry-level gear I was bringing that I’d be able to do everything I wanted to do as a professional. [...]
click fullscreen to watch in HD This video was edited (using iMovie), scored (using Magic Garageband) and uploaded (to SmugMug) during the Hawaii Photo Fusion Workshop in Honolulu in less than an hour! The video and photos were shot with the Canon T1i and kit lens (18-55mm f/3.5-5.6IS) in an Ewa-marine underwater housing. It was [...]
Tracie shot a nice, simple and quick tutorial on how she altered the wedding dress that we will be shooting during the Hawaii Photo Fusion trip. This is the first of almost 2 weeks worth of daily videos we’ll be posting. Enjoy! Coming next, a first test of the Ewa-marine underwater housing in a regular [...]
First of all I want to preface this post with the magic word… FREE. WHY I often hear some of the same things when people see some of our (The Bui Brothers) work or the work of some of the other photographers currently producing great photo fusion videos… “I could do it if I had [...]
WHY I am visiting O’ahu for a week as I do the Hawaii Photo Fusion tour with the wonderful model and makeup artist, Tracie Cotta. We are being sponsored by SmugMug to come out and spend a week shooting photos and videos to create a series of video tutorials and behind-the-scenes looks at some of [...]
After using Snow Leopard for less than a night… these are the reasons I am actually happy to have spent a whopping $29 on the upgrade. It’s friggin’ $29! (or $25 if you buy HERE) Space savings – While a 6GB or so savings doesn’t SEEM like a lot… it can make a big difference [...]
Although I’m in a couple of the testimonial videos saying what I think not only of the Tofurious SEO Workshop itself but also of SEO in general, I wanted to actually write out a few short things about my experience with all of this so far. As a disclaimer… Lawrence is my friend. But he [...]
Video by Tracie Cotta In part 1 of Shoot One we shot in Tracie’s front yard, her bedroom, downtown Fullerton, Disneyland and at a local park. That left 2 days… which took us to San Diego and back up to the OC Fair for part 2. San Diego “secret” location Years ago I saw some [...]
The wonderfully funny and beautiful Brigitte Dale contacted us a few months ago to do shoot some professional headshots, so we met up and spent an afternoon shooting in Downtown Los Angeles. We ended the shoot at the Disney Concert Hall where we did some not-headshots as well. (these will all be published on The [...]
In 2008 I started a slightly-too-ambitious project of shooting a creative self portrait every day of 2008. I got through 31 days… then sorta failed. The problem was I hadn’t left any room whatsoever to even miss a single day… or a single minute. The photo HAD to be taken between midnight and 11:59:59pm. That [...]
Tracie and I have been planning to shoot together for a couple months now… we were just waiting for the right project to start it for. We had decided to drive an RV across California for a week and shoot in various locations, and had 2 other people coming with us… one was an assistant [...]
Tracie challenged me to a mortal combat battle. There is a winner and a loser. The winner is not gracious. This post (and its comments) have been moved to TresVous.com.
Tracie and I were lucky enough to be offered tickets to Comic Con for a day by Steven Knuth… so we drove down in the morning and spent a half day there before heading over to the Jinx party at Tivoli Bar in Gaslamp. I absolutely enjoy the costumes that people make and wear… even [...]
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