Report From 2009 Fanime – Sunday | Cosplay Photographer

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. Things 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.

We started out with an unscheduled photo shoot: Miss Nintendo cosplaying as Yoko from the Anime series Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann complete with the long range rifle.View the entire set here.

Next we did some walking around and random photography (pics here). I have to say that I much more enjoy the quality of shooting photo shoots as opposed to quantity of walking around and just photographing whatever pops up. I like building a rapport with the models and having the time to plan the scene and light it; has a much more interesting look rather than shooting with distracting backgrounds.

Our next photo shoot was scheduled with LauraC with her cosplaying Gundam Wing Deathsythe, a conceptual costume. It’s always a pleasure to work with LauraC. View the entire set here.

We then went to photographing KittyKatChi and Shinobi Yukari cosplaying Matsumoto and Renji Arbari as Arrancarrs from the Bleach series. Excellent costumes and models. View the entire set here.

We also photographed LauraC again as Chun-Li from Street Fighters. I love how great her costume looks! View the entire set here.

From there we went to The Fairmont San Jose Hotel to do a photo shoot with bubydub cosplaying as Saber from the newly released Fate/stay night game. View the entire set here.

The final photo shoot was with the wonderful Lunar Loop group cosplaying Tsunasa Resevoir Chronicles. View the entire set here.

I also wanted to take a moment to thank all the people who made all this possible. First, I would like to thank Elbert Lee for all his hard work in holding light stands, reflectors, doing battery runs, and Diet Coke runs. His assistance was invaluable. Also a special thanks to Oscar who photographed alongside me. Without his help, I would have been a bit lost at times. And a special shout-out to my buddy Tibor who was also of assistance.  As always, my second photographer, Eric Lee. His contributions are paramount to the success of Bui Photography. And last, but certainly not least at all, my beautiful wife Andrea for her patience and understanding.