Lawrence and Doug left today, so Vu and I went on an excursion!!!

We went on the Jungle tour in Cancun on jet ski’s. The jungle tour brings you through the lagoon in Cancun out to the ocean then you get to go snorkeling. It was really fun. The jet skiing in Cancun was the coolest part of the jungle tour. Watch the video to see what it was like!

Today Lawrence and Doug rented a car (Vu drove) and we went across the Yucatan peninsula to visit the Mayan ruins of Coba.

Here is a long clip of my climb on the tallest ruins in the Yucatan peninsula.

We also stopped at a water hole, the cave, and hung out for a little while. The drive was long, but after three day of shooting weddings and a day after session it was a great way to relax.

Here is Vu’s video from the day.

Here is a photo of us at the top of the ruins:

Photo by Furious Photographers

Watch in HD here

Today Lawrence and Doug rented a car (Vu drove) and we went across the Yucatan peninsula to visit the Mayan ruins of Coba.

This is a long clip of my climb on the tallest ruins in the Yucatan peninsula.

Here is a video of the rest of the stuff we did.

It is shot handheld (yep, no stedi cam or any other camera stabilization at all) with a 5d mark II and a 28mm 1.8 lens.

Reblogged from TheBuiBrothers.com

We were flown to Cancun by Doug and Lawrence (Furious Photographers) to shoot a photographer’s promo video of them. They somehow booked two weddings back to back in Cancun… with a Day After session after the second wedding (which actually won’t happen until tomorrow).

As part of our project we were also delivering a short video for each couple, so we were essentially shooting two videos at each wedding. For Tiffany and Ly, we decided to do a same-day edit of their AMAZING wedding incorporating photos shot by Doug and Lawrence. Their photos were great, and we got some wonderful footage. I suppose you’d call this a same-day fusion-video, using both photos and video together instead of one or the other or two separate presentations.

We’ll be doing a full edit in the coming weeks, but this is what we showed at the reception, thankfully to a oohs and aahs then a wonderful applause at the end. Tiffany and Ly were literally a dream couple to work with… not just by having a gorgeous wedding but as people who were genuine, easy going and just plain fun.

TECH: Obviously there was no time for adjustments, effects or transitions, those will come later. For those wondering, it was shot on a 5D mark II and a Canon HV20 on a Steadicam Merlin, edited in Final Cut Pro, exported and sent to iMovie to add the photos (because it’s easy!). The video was presented on a MacBook Pro to the guests and delivered to the couple on an iPod Touch. Furious Photographers don’t fool around.

MUSIC: 2012 – Story of A Boy – music.podshow.com
(the song is temporary, we actually used a Sigur Ros song for the presentation, but needed to quickly choose something else for us to post online)

Enough talk, watch the video.

Vu and I shot part of Lawrence and Doug’s promo video for their wedding business Furious Photographers today. It was one of the best locations I’ve ever been to. Here is a screenshot from a clip of video we shot:

It was an amazing location on Isla Mujeres, an island off the coast of Cancun, and I can’t wait to get to editing the video we shot.

Vu and I arrived at night, hung out with Lawrence and Doug for a bit and took a look at our room.

We are here to shoot a photographers promo video for Furious Photographers, I think it will be one of our best photographers promo videos ever.

Vu and I flew to Cancun today, it is Vu’s first time and my second. Last time I was here was to shoot a wedding with Aaron Dieppa you can see some videos from last time here: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3, Day 5, Day 6.

I’m looking forward to sharing my trip again, this time we are here for two weddings back to back. One on Saturday at Isla Mujeres, one on Sunday at the Marriott and then a Day after session on Monday at Tulum. All of this thanks to Lawrence and Doug from Tofurious and Furious photographers for hiring us to make a promo video for them. I think this promo will be one of our best yet.

While finishing up going through the photographs from Cancun I came across another blurry photograph. I passed up this photograph a few times while going through the photographs and each time it really caught my eye, so I wonder what others think of it.

I’ve now been back for a week and have not posted more photographs from the wedding… I am getting through them slowly and came across this one. I feel that it really represents a lot about wedding photography.

The first thought that came to my mind is that every wedding day goes by so fast it is a blur.

How do you feel this photograph represents wedding photography?

Today was a pretty busy day, even though we only intended to go to one place.

We started the day out lazily by sleeping in until 11:00am. Got up and asked our tour sales guy, Victor, if he could get us to Chitzen Itza; unfortunately the tour left at 7:00am. We ended up renting a car and thinking it would be a great idea to drive there. We mapped out a really great day trip from Cancun to Chitzen Itza then to Tulum. We had plenty of time to make it a good long road trip across a lot of the Yucatan Peninsula.

We started out great, our rental car guy gave us a map and told us the fastest and most cost effective way of going. Basically there is a toll road that has two toll plazas, one $20 one and the next one is $16. There is no avoiding the $20 unless you go on rural roads which will make your trip about 4 hours. So we were off on our way. All would have been well if there was not construction… we were delayed an hour and a half going through what should have been our 20 minute $16 savings route

Once we made it to Chitzen Itza all was great, we walked around and took photographs and some video.

When it was time to leave were were hungry so we went to find a Taco place… after a week here it seems like taco’s are a Pacific thing… it took us about 30 minutes to find a place that served taco’s. The taco’s we ate had a local flavor to them, the ingredients were all fresh and delicious.

Well, by that time we were pretty late and so we debated canceling the Tulum trip. It was just getting too late in the day, we had already driven 200km to Chitzen Itza and it was another 200km to Tulum and then another 130km back to our hotel so we decided to take the scenic rural route back to our hotel (you know, the one with no toll). It was an amazing adventure back. With a mega thunder storm, dogs, chickens, a cat, a church in ruins, and about a thousand speed bumps we made it back in just under 5 hours.

Since Bonny shot the day with our HD camera, I just captured some random pieces of footage from the tape to post, once I get back home I’ll capture the footage and post something else, too.

The day can only be summed up by calling it an adventure Charlie.

Today Bonny and I had a very awesome time at Xcaret, Mexico. Think Disneyland in Mexico with a Mayan, jungle and Caribbean theme. It was way one of the best experiences we have had as you can see in the video.

The best part for me was when we went swimming in underground rivers and swimming in the jungle. This is just a small portion of the day, I’ll post a full review of Xcaret once I’m back home.

Today we shot the wedding!!!

The day could not have been more perfect.

I am so tired after transferring and backing up all of the photographs I am just going to post this one photograph.

Not much today, mostly relaxing for tomorrows wedding. I can’t go getting killed or getting stranded somewhere right before the wedding now can I?

Basically we woke up really late, went to eat, went swimming, then had a fancy dinner. Please enjoy the video.

Above is another bit of video from our day 2 in Cancun, Mexico. We got to go kayaking, meet a monkey, and go on a pirate cruise!

I’d also like to write (type) about what made it possible for me to be here. I am here for work…

Without Bonny, I don’t think I’d be able to properly photograph the wedding and make promos for Aaron. So, thank you Bonny!!!

Without Aaron hiring me to shoot the wedding with him and make promo videos I would not be able to be here. Thank you Aaron!!!

And Thanks to Carrie and Daniel for getting engaged and planning your wedding here in beautiful Cancun, Mexico.

Slideshow Music by Paul Dateh

Wow! Cancun is so awesome!

Here is a quick video (30 seconds) recap of our day. We got to see the beautiful beach and water, walk around a bit of Mayan ruins, see some wildlife and go swimming.

We still have not gotten in touch with Aaron (I’m shooting the wedding on Sunday with him) so hopefully we talk to him today. The wedding is going to be at the Dreams Resort here is Cancun. I can’t wait!!!