Whenever I give a talk or host a show, I’ve heard from this community time and again that one of the most valuable things is the Q&A wrap up. Straight up. You asking questions and me doing my best to answer them. And not just the “how’d you get started in photography” questions…. we’re talking the hard questions, landing clients, hiring staff, working with challenging clients, legal questions, gear questions, portfolio questions, whatever you can muster…
As such, we’re dedicating and entire 90 minute chasejarvisLIVE show to this topic this Wednesday. 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, please frame your questions below in the comments. Don’t be shy. Ask away. Anything is fair game. Whatever it is you really want to know about with photography and video–your questions and the dirty truth.
Who: You, Me + a worldwide gathering of photographers and filmmakers
What: I’ll be answering any/all the questions you can throw at me in 90 minutes
When: this coming Wednesday, February 9th 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
I’ll bring your questions from the comments below onto the show and give you a shoutout for asking your question. You + me, mono y mono. And if I don’t know the answer, I might even make a cell phone call to get you the info you want. You get the point.
It’s free, it’s LIVE, and apologies but this video won’t be re-posted for a very very long time (if ever), so please tune in LIVE if you can. (We’re in a technical gear/podcast/youtube transition at the moment, figuring some stuff out.)
Ask your questions below in the comments. Hope to see you Wednesday. The more people participate in this event, the more interesting it will be for everyone involved, so feel free to invite your photo friends.
Hy Chase,
What lens should I buy.
I have a Nikon D300 with a 18-200 vr, 50 mm 1.8 prime and a Tamron 17-55 2.8
What should I buy for a new lens choice:
70-200vr 2.8
or a 24-70 2.8
For concert and wedding photography.
What lens would you recommend.
How do you best approach someone to photograph on their land?
What is your take on Art vs. Workflow as it relates to business?
I know the canned answer is, “make the best photos you possibly can and everything will fall into place”. Seriously though… in a real-world-not-everyone-jumps-outta-helicopters kinda way.
Do clients always give you total creative freedom or do your ideas and concepts often get changed by clients? If so does it bother you?
Before you were shooting for large clients (with large budgets) how did you support yourself as a commercial photographer? How did you obtain these clients? How did you deal with charging appropriately and dealing with “not in our budget”. How did you deal with licensing with small clients who did not understand limited use, or would get angry when given different prices for different licenses (maybe that’s just my experience!).
Also (to save myself in the future) what kind of contract do you have to prevent clients from firing you without payment?
Thanks in advance Chase.
Story pertaining to previous question for any readers. People aren’t always as nice as you are! :
I did 1/4 of a shoot for a client (the other person was not told by their assistant I was coming) and was rescheduled to finish a month and a half later. Client asked me 2 days before the rescheduled shoot for all of the images so they could view them. I sent them small res files with no color correction (strobes indoors with florescent office lights and outdoor light – pictures were orange) when they asked about the color I told them I hadn’t adjusted them, fully edited one picture (I was going to use it for my portfolio anyway) and sent them a copy with a large watermark on it. They asked for all the pictures color corrected and when I said no they fired me at 8am before I was scheduled to be there 10am the day of the shoot. They then offered me $75 for that one picture I had completed. I never responded and was horrified that anyone could do that type of thing. I didn’t even respond with my own price on that one image. I was never paid for anything.