Posted by Richard Bui • July 1st, 2009 • No Comments
Brand recognition is perhaps one of the most important aspects to business success. Sure, it’s important to have a product or service that people want, but if you can’t get people to understand your brand, your competitor has no problems explaining to them their brand.
Photography is just like any other service based business. The brand recognition is the style of images each photographer or photography studio has. Take for example, photographer Dave Hill and his unmistakable style of photography. When you see one of his images, you know it’s him. It’s the same thing as other photographers such as Ansel Adams, Chase Jarvis, and so forth. But just having a style of photography isn’t always enough for your potential clients to remember you, you need something more. This is where the amazing husband-and-wife team of COVERITALLCO comes in. Read more »
Posted by Richard Bui • July 1st, 2009 • No Comments
We had incredible fun at this year’s San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade. Tons of people came out this year to celebrate “In Order To Form A More Perfect Union…”. There were lots of good food, excellent costumes, excellent floats, and great people to see. The weather was nice and sunny in the 80’s with nice blue skies. You can see all the pictures in our gallery from this year’s Pride Parade here. Read more »
Posted by Richard Bui • June 24th, 2009 • No Comments
Held every year, the San Francisco Pride Parade will be taking place again this year on June 27 (10 AM to 2 PM) and June 28 (9 AM to 3 PM) taking place at UN Plaza/Civic Center in San Francisco. Celebrating this year’s theme, “In Order to Form a More Perfect Union…”, join many elected officials such as District Attorney Kamala Harris, Public Defender Jeff Adachi, Mayor Gavin Newsom, and many others. This year’s Celebrity Grand Marshals are: Cloris Leachman, Lieutenant Dan Choi, Bruce Cohen, Dan Nicoletta, and Howard Rosenman. The Lifetime Achievement Grand Marshall for 2009 is William Beasley. The Individual Community Grand Marshals are Joe Hawkins, Molly McKay & Davina Kotluski, Shannon Minter, Andrea Shorter, and Helen Zia. The Organizational Community Grand Marshal is the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). You can find more information on SF Pride’s website at http://sfpride.org. Read more »
Posted by Richard Bui • June 16th, 2009 • No Comments
Eric and I got together to do some portfolio shots for ModelMayhem member Anna Luong, a beautiful model and very easy to work with. We at San Jose State University. All images shot with a Canon EOS 1Ds Mark II and Canon EF 85mm f/1.2L II USM. My favorite shots, with Eric’s shots coming soon, click in to see. Read more »
Posted by Richard Bui • June 11th, 2009 • No Comments
More often than not, as a photographer, I rarely find myself in front of the lens. It’s not that I avoid being photographed, it’s just hard to be a photographer when you spend more time in front of the lens than behind.
In one of those few cases, my good friend Dr. Tibor Duliskovich, happened to get some snaps of Eric, Oscar, Elbert, and myself “working”. It’s sometimes interesting to see behind the camera and see some of us photographers operate.
Also Oscar had written a very nice little article on his site about his experience shooting with me to which I had made some brief comments also. I’m glad you had fun and certainly look forward to doing it again!
Oscar managed to get some behind-the-scene shots of me also:
You can see more on Oscar’s website by clicking here.
Posted by Richard Bui • June 10th, 2009 • No Comments
Posted by Richard Bui • June 8th, 2009 • No Comments
Canon was kind enough to loan me their latest top-of-the-line professional 1D model, the Canon EOS 1Ds Mark III. After using it for nearly two weeks, 3 events, 12 photo shoots, and 3 lenses, and having shot some couple thousand frames, I can safely formulate an opinion on what works, what doesn’t, and is it worth it. click to read more. Read more »
Posted by Richard Bui • June 2nd, 2009 • 4 Comments
One of my favorite photography tools isn’t a lens or even a camera, it’s a light meter. People thought the light meter was a thing of the past with auto exposure and the advent of digital photography, but that can’t be farther from the truth. Despite all the advances by Canon, Nikon and the other major photography brands, there are still a number of situations where the auto exposure meter of the camera is off, sometimes completely. Read more »
Posted by Richard Bui • May 26th, 2009 • No Comments
Because of my sister’s graduation from San Francisco State University (SFSU), I didn’t attend FAnime on Saturday. But Sunday turned out to be quite a good turn out. Thugs started getting pretty busy around 11 AM and was non-stop hustle and bustle.
Like many other photographers, we at Bui Photography had a number of private photo shoots lined up. In total for Sunday, we did 4 scheduled photo shoots with 3 more random unscheduled photo shoots. For those who are interested in just seeing the pics, click here. To read more and see pics from the photo shoots, click in. Read more »
Posted by Richard Bui • May 24th, 2009 • No Comments
The 2009 FAnime is now upon us. I attended FAnime on Friday after lunch time and things got busy quite quickly. Despite being a Friday, turnout was quite high. I also did a number of photo shoots with KittyCatChi (non-cosplay shoot), MissNintendo, CherryTeaGirl5, Hikaru-Jan and Rena-Girl. You can view all the pictures from the photo shoot including just random shots here. Click in to read more and see my favorite shots. Read more »
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