Yours truly. Crushed after 10 days.
1. I want you to be able to ask questions that I did not address in my posts. There were hundreds that I didn’t get to. I’m currently scheduling a #AskChase episode of chasejarvisLIVE next week, so if you want your questions about the “Diary of a Shoot” answered. Please ask them in the comments below. I’ll grab a bunch of those questions and respond LIVE next week – anyone can tune in for free. Time/date TBD, follow here, Facebook, or Twitter to find out where/when.
2. Also, I wanted to share a few other snapshots of human and gear carnage. A lot of your comments along the way were about how harsh these gigs could be on humans and gear. You’re right on both accounts. As such, let these photos serenade your questions above… The below self portraits were all grabbed between leaving the mountain immediately after getting our last shot and arriving in Seattle at 10pm. The crew featured in these shots is not nearly nearly complete, just happened to be a bunch of us people all on the same flight. For the rest of the crew that wasn’t on our flight, you’re lucky. I’ll post haggard looking shot of you later.
Enjoy these honest and brutal snapshots and feel free to ask any questions in comments below…
First, the gear….
Yours truly sitting in snowstorm with Nikon D7000 video rig.
Half dozen cameras, large lens package, steadicam, jib, monitors, other misc gear on weather standby between shots. A big pile of money, freezing. But it all pulls through in the end.
Scott de-ices one of our Nikon D7000 cameras with rode mic and zacuto zfinder.
Now for the people….en route back to Seattle on our flight…
Jason.
Erik.
Kyle.
Marni.
Chase.
Bill.
Scott. (I think he cheated and made a goodlooking self portrait)
Matt.
Ask any questions you’d like answered in next weeks LIVE show about this shoot in comments below. If you asked in earlier posts and they did not get answered, please kindly re-ask them here.
Now excuse me while I go tend to my chapped lips.
Per comment/questions regarding the Day 7 shoot see below. I think you answered some of it with your post on Day 9. Having the bucks to utilize a big crew helps you crank out stuff quick when you need too… Would love to hear more insight on this.
In the past year I have started to make a transition in my career from photojournalism to corporate/advertising. Its been a bit of a learning curve, and this series of posts brings up an issue that I still have a lot to learn about, (dealing with large cast and crew). As a PJ there are no assistants (well maybe one assistant for a higher end editorial shoot), asset managers, producers, ADs, etc… involved. The largest crew/cast I’ve had the chance to work with yet on the advertising side of things added up to a massive 10 people including myself, and even at that level I was finding myself a little stressed having to act both as photographer and producer. Your mention of not being able to wrangle a small/light crew to take advantage of a weather window really struck me.
It seems to me there are benefits and draw backs to both large/small crews. When you have some time I would love to hear how you managed this before having your own in-house producer and other staff, as well as insights on the benefits of shared work load of a larger crew vs. the agility and ability to adapt and go guerilla style of a smaller crew. I completely realize with a client/project like this, a small crew probably isn’t an option. Would also love to hear if you have a preference in working with a small crew vs. big crew.
QUESTION:
Can you explain the process for how to ‘de-ice’ or ‘defrost’ a frozen camera body and stabilized lens, both in the field and/or at the hotel later?
And to repeat someone else’s question, how do you prevent condensation from forming inside your lenses and camera bodies when you move from the extreme cold to the indoors?
Even though our shoots don’t compare to yours in size and scope, these are gear issues we all suffer.
Jason’s face the most jaded! or it was raised during the night after weeks of insomnia and spree!)
1.As I understand this whole process is no small force your costs and kleenat you ureguliruete with him all these questions in these conditions (not scheduled weather, being late for a flight to the fault isportivshesya weather)?
2.How much was your Chase to organize such a team, serious, brave and willing to do anything to target professionals?
Thank you Chase and Short free to all who participated in the work! for your people see how much it was difficult to
why dod i feel i look at bunch of idiots? 😀
(sorry chase and ur respectful crew)
Love ur works always inspiring
no questions, just two thumbs up for a great job and a nice series of posts. been through a similar weather roller coaster in the dolomites a few weeks ago. nothing beats being towed by a totally insane skidoo pilot and hanging on for dear life, or jumping out of helicopters on mountain ridges with $6000+ of gear in your backpack.