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?
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1. Great format. It’s tough for me to travel to attend courses.
2. Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
3. Works for me as I can watch it anytime and help me decide whether I want to buy the downloads.
For me, there are several reasons that CreativeLIVE is amazing. First and foremost is that it gives photographers all over the world access to phenomenal talent for a very reasonable cost (and I’m talking about the cost to buy the course after). I think it’s safe to say that not many photographers have the cash (or time) to travel around the globe attending seminars of peers they admire and want to learn from. The interaction in Zack’s course was amazing. It was the first one I was able to catch live so I can’t speak for the other courses that have finished. The fact that you can watch the live broadcast for free is amazing. Personally, I’m hesitant to buy something like this without knowing if it fits my needs. But, again, with Zack’s class, I almost immediately recognized its value and made the decision to purchase it. I’m very much looking forward to watching it in full and having it as a resource for years to come. Again, this isn’t something you’d typically get from paying hundreds/thousands of dollars in a live weekend seminar.
I live in Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada. Atlantic Standard Time (+4 hours from Seattle) so it did make for some late nights and I had to keep switching back and forth between the Lakers game and the seminar, but it was definitely worth it.
Zack’s course had a very intimate feeling to it. I felt as though I was there in many cases. Aside from not being able to shoot with him and have him critique me, I didn’t feel as though I was missing out. Everything seemed transparent. It was raw, yet polished. It didn’t feel as though there were a lot of things going on that we weren’t a part of. Even down to the checklists during breaks. Just felt real and I appreciated it.
I love that you’re making this possible and love the calibre of instructors you’re bringing in. At the end of the weekend, I was inspired, excited, energetic and couldn’t wait to get out and try everything I learned. Can’t wait for the next one.
1. This format is excellent, not only because one is learning from the best in the field but because the participants can interact with the class and that just makes the whole project stand out versus getting a pre-recorded course. I’m looking forward for more of the weekend workshop type courses as they are easier for me to attend since I have a day job during the weekdays which makes it a bit more difficult to attend the courses during the weekdays.
2. I live in Costa Rica
3. I’m happy to be able to watch the courses from my country, after all the Internet is a world wide technology and I really feel discouraged by those companies and services that only allow for videos or services to be accessed from a certain region. In my case I don’t run into time zone issues, like the people from Europe, so I don’t have a problem with attending the live classes.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
Fantastically better. Price is a bit high (all photogs are cheapskates about everything but their camera) but i can only imagine the amount money it takes to run and the zack arias seminar was completely worth the money.
2. Where do you live?
Huntington Beach, California
3. Does this live worldwide format really work?
It does for me. If i missed something during the day, i would re-watch it on the rebroadcast.. and I still purchased the download.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
I love that each set of classes, is about a specific topic – not just general about photography. I think when you are just getting started it is overwhelming, so much information. So when its broken down, you can know what you are going to learn and retain it. I’m currently going to school for photography and I’ve been to Zack’s Photo 101 workshop (which inspired me to learn more). The difference there is, when I went to Zack’s workshop he opened my eyes to everything. Going to school I’m hands on and able to work with equipment that I wouldn’t be able to on my own. So now watching this workshop, I totally got what he was saying and so excited to start applying it. The more times you hear the same thing, the better chances are of it sticking.
Also, amazing work with the filming. Being able to cut to the lightroom screen and get the variety of angle – makes you feel like you were there, easy to follow along.
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?
I live in the US -Florida and I watched it live.
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?
It totally works. I can’t tell you how helpful it is to see a working professional, give you advice. The times where you guys cut to the questions from online and the audience, just sets Creative Live apart from what’s out there. When you watch a DVD you can’t pause and ask a question.
For someone who’s never seen it, I’d say its interactive learning. When you have a job/family and you just want to learn something on the side its such a hassle to try to find classes near you at the times that your available. This is just a flexible format, that’s so easy and affordable to learn and gain insight live.
Looking forward to new classes!