Archive for 'Words'

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Best laid plans (don’t hold out forever)

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 [...]

Vote for Lydia Shannon | Identity Kitchen $3,000 Branding Contest

Vote for Lydia Shannon | Identity Kitchen $3,000 Branding Contest

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) [...]

Don’t Alienate Your Existing Audience | Twitter Badgering | Facebook Fans

Don’t Alienate Your Existing Audience | Twitter Badgering | Facebook Fans

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 [...]

Dropbox | Free (or paid) Online Storage and File Sharing

Dropbox | Free (or paid) Online Storage and File Sharing

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 | Are We Really This Lazy? | Google Fu

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 [...]

DIY Dress Alteration | Wedding Dress for Hawaii Photo Fusion Shoot

DIY Dress Alteration | Wedding Dress for Hawaii Photo Fusion Shoot

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 [...]

Hawaii Fusion Event | Shooting Professional Photos and Videos on an Entry Level Budget

Hawaii Fusion Event | Shooting Professional Photos and Videos on an Entry Level Budget

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 [...]

O’ahu Hawaii Photography – Fusion – New Media Workshop

O’ahu Hawaii Photography – Fusion – New Media Workshop

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 [...]

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