Whenever I give a talk or host a show, my fav part is the Q&A. Rather than me guessing what I should share, you just ask away. Especially the hard questions that you can’t learn in photography books: landing clients, overcoming failures, working with challenging clients, legal, gear, portfolio questions, whatever it might be. In this year’s first #AskChase version of chasejarvisLIVE, I got thru about 40 of your questions in the 90 min show. This time around, I’m hoping to double that, plus we’re adding another dimension.
The first half of the show will be me answering any questions you can put in the comments below. Rapid fire, as many as I can get thru. So don’t be shy, ask anything you’d like below and I’ll give you a shout out for asking it and do my best to answer with the dirty truth. But catch this: the second half of the show, I’ll have a guest with me. The Associate Creative Director for REI, Jason Sutherland. If you have been ignoring me are new here, then you’ll need to scroll back a bit and read the Diary of a Shoot I just wrapped up, where I chronicled my 9 day campaign shoot with them. Jason will be on hand to answer your specific questions, but also any/all your general questions about whatever you want to know from a client CD/AD perspective. Hopefully this is as good as gold.
Who: You, Me + guest Creative Director Jason Sutherland + a worldwide gathering of creatives
What: YOUR questions answered for 90 minutes
When: this coming Wednesday, April 6th at 10:00am Seattle time (1pm NYC or GMT -8)
Where: just visit www.chasejarvis.com/LIVE
How to get your questions on the show: ASK THEM IN THE COMMENTS BELOW
We will take some questions LIVE via the #cjlive or #AskChase hashtag on Twitter (follow @chasejarvis here) during the broadcast, however, so that we can be organized and get through as many questions as possible, you’re far more likely to get your questions answered by framing them below in the comments.
It’s free, it’s LIVE, and apologies but this video will not be re-posted in it’s entirety, so please tune in LIVE if you can. (We’re still in a technical gear/podcast/youtube transition at the moment, figuring some stuff out.) Hope to see you Wednesday. The more people participate, the more interesting it will be for everyone involved. Feel free to invite anyone you’d like to join the party.
I posted a question last week and I put this on my calendar!
btw- can somebody tell me how to upload my thumbnail picture here?
Chase,
Thanks so much for everything you do to teach what you know!
My question is this:
I currently have a well paying job in a non related field, and discovered I was passionate about photography long after this career began.
Do you have any tips for making the transition from something that essentially gets in the way of my creative persuits without just quitting and starting from scratch? I’m not at a point in my life where I can just jump off a cliff and risk it all, so I need to find a way to gradually change over to a creative career. I want to get in at the ground level and work for other photographers and whatnot, but with a day job, it really prohibits my ability to do so.
Thanks so much for your time!
Matt Anderson
Could you guys talk about how a photographer could break into the world of commercial jobs?
Chase, here’s a light one;
When eating on the run do you prefer Grilled Cheese or PB&J.
Carry on with the more serious stuff and thanks for the great blog/accessibility!
Chase,
In a time where our attention spans are becoming shorter and we are constantly being pulled in every direction by interactive media and the moving image, do you think that the still image is losing ground in our society?