You know Jeremy Cowart. He's an amazing portrait, entertainment, and travel photographer from Nashville - and also the founder of the great Help-Portrait. Lucky for us, we're dragging him up to Seattle for another smash-tastically sweet episode of chasejarvisLIVE tomorrow. I'll sit down with Jeremy for 90 minutes and talk shop. I'm banking that we'll learn how, after shifting from graphic design just a few years ago, how he has enjoyed dramatic success shooting music,... read more ›
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For USA readers, yesterday was Thanksgiving - I spent the day with family, being thankful for so much. For the international readers, I hope you joined in yesterday, or perhaps will join me in some thankfulness today. Front and center on my list of things to be thankful for are: health, family, and community. Health makes the whole thing possible; family--immediate and extended--gives me the daily dose of what love really means, as well as... read more ›
Nov
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The Kuwait Times, Gizmodo and Engadget have reported that the government of Kuwait has outlawed DSLR cameras. "The Ministries of Information, Social Affairs and Finance (hello, 1984!) have collectively decided to ban the use of the chunky shooters in public places, except where it can be shown that it's for journalistic purposes." - Engadget. ---UPDATE---- The Kuwait Times Newspaper has rescinded this story. Go figure. ___________ This ban reportedly affects tourists too, so if you're... read more ›
Nov
23
Fraction Magazine today launched their annual Holiday Print Sale where, for between $30 and $100 bucks, you can purchase some pretty stunning original photographic art work. I got a DM from them this morning about the sale, went over and took a peek, and was positively struck by a lot of the work. The hook? The hook is that there is no hook. 100% of... read more ›
Nov
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If you're like me, you probably use your iphone/android/whatever phone camera as a visual journal. Certainly I shoot creative photos with it, but I'm also constantly generating snapshots of things I like, patterns, ideas, magazine covers, ads, and other stuff that act as inspiration or reminders for me to check out something in greater detail later when I've got more time. Well, Google's new-ish app "Google Goggles" capitalizes on this. Snap a photo, do a... read more ›
Nov
12
Happy Friday. I'm on the road today, but thought I'd squeeze in this video I found interesting. It illustrates--without all the CGI and Hollywood set, post production, and mojo coverup--some cool interplay between stunt men/women and a few RED cinema cameras on booms, jibs, cables and handheld. Basically, it's a BTS stunt training video. You'll need to slide into the vid a bit you see the actual cameras (the target of this vid... read more ›
Nov
10
I heard it again yesterday for the billionth time: "Digital Photography". Isn't it time we drop the word 'digital'? Seems we've managed to drop the "electric" from "electric guitar" in common parlance. We found it easy to drop the word "acrylic" from "acrylic painting" when that came on the scene with oils. We quickly ditched the "digital" from "digital music" when it took the lead over records and tapes and CDs. I suppose by-and-large our... read more ›
Nov
09
Many of you know the amazing portrait, entertainment, and travel photographer Jeremy Cowart. Well, good news is here: Jeremy is doing a creativeLIVE course on Experimental Portraiture in Photography. The two-day course is December 2nd and 3rd. If you've ever wanted to know more about portraits, how to shoot first-time models or what it's like to photograph celebrities, this is not to be missed. And remember it's worldwide and it's free to watch LIVE. There... read more ›
Nov
03
In the past several days, I've received a ton of correspondence asking if I'd re-post my chasejarvisLIVE Keynote address from the PDN Photo Plus Expo in NYC last week. You asked for it, you got it. At about the 25-or-so minute mark, I wrap up my monologue and invite a handful of guests on stage, all of whom I consider my friends who are living my message. I think you'll be quite engaged.... read more ›
Nov
02
I'm certainly not a chef, but whenever I'm asked what the "key ingredient" is to making good photographs, good ART, the answer I give is a simple one: make a lot of it. We often talk about how vision is everything, but vision doesn't come from the womb full grown and mature. It's cultivated. And that cultivation takes time and effort. Certainty and control might be your friends while performing surgery, but they are not... read more ›
