Whew! What a week it was last week… Last Wednesday, I brought pal and photog instructor guru Zack Arias into my studio for another episiode of chasejarvisLIVE. We chatted photography for 2 hours and took questions from the live Twitter audience via #cjlive. Was a blast. While about 20,000 of you caught the interview LIVE–it seemed like I got at least that many tweets/emails/fbook requests to post it again here on the blog, so… As you wish. Here ’tis.
From there, we shipped Zack and his crew into our creativeLIVE studio where he put on one heckuva studio lighting course all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Hopefully you saw the interwebs booming, especially with the @creativeLIVE and #askzack tags. I’m pretty sure Zack swiped some ratings from the World Cup. Or at least we had fun trying. I wanted to give a huge shoutout to Zack and his team for an amazing effort. You guys and gals nailed it. Also a shoutout also to all the manufacturers that kicked in gear for Zack to give away, as well as uber thanks to B&H Photo Video for their support of the creativeLIVE studio and G-Technology for keeping our gobs and gobs of data safe. They support us, please support them. I hope lots of you tuned in. And if you didn’t but wished you had, the course is available for download here.
While I’ve got you, I wanted to ask for your feedback. Not somebody else’s…YOURS. In the comments below, we’re looking to find out a few things with the goal of making creativeLIVE the best it can be. Tell us whatever you want, but please help us by answering some or all of the following particulars about our LIVE, free, worldwide creative education platform:
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
2. Where do you live? We want to understand the breadth of our audience with the comments on this post. Where are you from, and when are you watching the LIVE feed?
3. Does this live worldwide format really work? This is the important part. What does the experience feel like to you? Can you help describe this format to someone who’s never seen it?
Thanks for taking the time! If you’re new here, I invite you to subscribe/follow via links above and to the right. Lots more stuff heading your way soon on all our channels…
1) its live, its so much different than those edited,sleek, scott kelby videos. At the same time its THE thing isn’t it. We get to ask question through the chat and so on but has its downsize and thats the waste of time.
2) Finland
3) Hell ya it works! I would have stayed up all night through the weekend with my coffee maker if I had not had to go to work 6am on sunday.
Keep on going..
First of all, this session ROCKED! I never would have had the opportunity to see an actual shoot and have access to SO much information. This event took away the mystery of lighting and photographing in a studio. What I learned from this seminar is priceless. I was riveted, spent the majority of my weekend watching and did order the download. Now, to answer your questions.
1. Never having been to a photo seminar, I have nothing to compare with this session. However, I really liked the interactive format.
2. I live in Illinois and watched it live.
3. I loved that it was worldwide and brought so many people together for a common experience. It felt like I was actually a part of a huge, extended class because of the real time Q&A. It was great.
This was, no doubt, a huge undertaking for all involved, but I will definitely be watching for future CreativeLIVE events and will pass the word to fellow photo enthusiasts.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others? It’s free. this is astoundingly appreciated by those of us who don’t have 2 dimes to rub together.
2. Where do you live? Raleigh, NC
3. Does this live worldwide format really work? This is the important part. What does the experience feel like to you? Can you help describe this format to someone who’s never seen it?
I love the live format! It works great as long as I select the right bandwidth feed. That said, I think there need to be more replay options. Try as we might, it’s almost impossible to free up an entire weekend to sit in front of a computer. Maybe there could be a special replay in the middle of the week or split up over a week or 2 in 1-2 hour segments?
I have attended workshops here and Creative Live’s workshops are the best yet I have attended. The best thing is they’re free!
Zack’s workshop has taught me a lot of practical techniques in studio lighting. I got to watch him work and he is very inspiring.
John Gringo’s workshop, I think is very very comprehensive and easy to follow. Great job guys! Keep it coming! Hehehe. =)
Please don’t change a thing! Keep the talent coming! What an awesome idea and fantastic medium to share it all.
In response to your questions:
1. What makes it different, better, worse… IT’S FREE! BUT IT’S FREE WITH AMAZING VALUE! I bought the download, just because I felt that I was ripping you off if I didn’t. I love the fact that I’m able to ask questions on the twitter, etc and they’re actually read and responded to. This might change when it gets too big, but for now, I like it.
I was lucky enough to attend Zack’s One Light Workshop in January of this year, and i was just as excited to see this feed from my office at home. I felt almost the same level of connection with zack and the material. I’m sure that’s a gift that he is able to bring, so find more people like him. He’s the Regis Philbin of the photography teaching world in that it seems like he can relate to anyone and always be liked.
2. I’m in Orlando, FL
3. A few times it would freeze, and I would have to refresh and reload, but other than that, it was great! I only caught about 10 hours total for the 3 days, but as I said before, I bought the downloads. I think the raw downloads (rough edit) are going to be better than the polished ones, because it feels more real when we get to see all the little quirks that a live feed will have. It’s like “unplugged” music and how it’s WAY better than a studio track.
IMHO!
THANKS A TON!