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.
how to make your first commercial portfolio when you dont have enough lights,cant rent a studio and dont have any team or hire any model?
Do you recommend micro four third cameras for professional photography?
I want to ask the obvious question: How do you land new and exciting clients?
Do you have any other tipps to getting your work and name out other than using twitter and facebook to connect to the people?
PS: I am from Germany and love what you are doing here, so motivating. I have recently started of trying to build my own photography business. Maybe you even have suggestions on the first moves? I’d love to do fashion and editorial work and am organizing some photo shootings with model and MUA to get some stuff for my portfolio right now. What would you do next?
Thank you so much!
Chase- just a big, big thanks for taking the time out of your (crammed) days on the shoot to share your roller coaster ride with the rest of us. I absolutely love the process of figuring out how to pull skilled people together to create a vision; all the while trying to problem-solve around the elemental curve balls that the world usually throws and still pulling it out to make magic happen with a (tired) smile on your face. A mark of a true professional. All of us can take a few lessons from your narrative to put in our pockets for our own roller coaster rides, regardless if they are in photography or in other creative fields.
Thanks for being generous with your time and your insights.
Question for you: your business & brand plan is obviously fairly diverse (smart)- blog, iPhone app, commercial work, book publishing, creativeLIVE, etc. After photography, what came first and why?
Jason- thanks to you for taking time out of your day to talk to the community.
Question for you: managing external resources/time against articulating the brand image- to me, REI is adventure quality first, style a very close second- it seems translating the authenticity and toughness is also just as important as getting the pretty shot. When the elements get hairy (like they did for Chase and co.), at what point do you call Chase and say “Hey man, let’s do the rest in studio?” (if ever?)
Thanks guys for sitting down with us.
On a typical multi-day location shoot, how much of the grip gear you use do you rent versus own? I’m thinking Steadicam, cranes, jibs, dollies, generators etc.
On a shoot like the one in Telluride, how do you provide for the crews “nature breaks” when out in the backcountry all day? I usually have to have a porta-potty or two on site for large crew productions but I don’t see that being very practical too far off the beaten path.
Thanks Rich.