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. Creative live approach is different because it goes further than most “webinar” type classes/sessions. In this case specifically Zack Arias, started out slow, some how managed to cover the basics for those that didn’t have a lot of knowledge and still gave more detailed information for those that are very familiar with their equipment. He went beyond the basics while still keeping it fun and interesting, maybe it was the slight repetition while adding extra ideas, more importantly ideas he(Zack) had that are all his, that go with his personal photography style. I have to give slight disclaimer that have heard him speak before and read his blog and really love the way he communicates, I not only hear it, I get it. I have just really discovered Creative Live in the last months. I have purchased downloads. So I guess the difference for Creative Live vs other things that could be considered similar is that Creative Live goes farther and deeper. As to Zack Arias specifically he managed to talk to both those there and those of us watching on the internet and made us feel like we were there.
2. I live in TEXAS!!!
3. I don’t know how this works for those across the pond or in a majorly different timezone but it works for me makes me wish I lived in Seattle so I could be more involved with the whole process. I just feel like you can never really know everything and there is always a lot of room to learn and improve and tackle new approaches, which is where something like Creative Live comes in , photographers sharing their approach with other photographers, which of course both Zack and Chase are great at doing.
To all of those at Creative Live, thank you for taking the time to make this a real opportunity for all of us out here on the internet(s) 🙂 To the sponsors, B&H and folks like those at Westcott that answer the call to help support Creative Live , believe me we out here won’t forget .
To Zack and his family, thanks for sharing a whole weekend and so much honest knowledge, life’s lessons and of course Megan’s (spelling?) music and artistic abilities.
I honestly was inspired by watching the craziness that Zack had going on, on Sunday with students shooting, the band sitting and tests going on the aquarium , it was all amazing!
To any other photographer that Creative Live might approach , the bar is pretty high, between Vincent L. and Zack A. and all of the other classes that go on regularly.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
I’ve never been able to afford to go to any other workshops but I love the fact that it’s live and free. You get to see the process in real time with any problems and the solution.
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 Connecticut
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 like the fact that there is a live Q&A and questions get brought up that I may not have thought of. I think some of the questions were for basic terms (like what is chimping) that may have slowed things down for a few minutes. Zack’s class was great because he covered a ton of information. This was my first Creative Live course but I am looking forward to David DuChemin’s class in July.
If I had to try to describe the format, I would have to say it’s a live classroom on the internet where you can learn about different creative topics. You can ask question online but they may or may not be answered. If you miss part of the class, you can buy the download. Top notch instructors and production, great value, great information.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
I can’t compare it to any other web based classes as I’ve never seen any but it is iin many respects better than any class or seminar I have physically attended and that has to be down to the fact that the quality and talent of the teachers you have is second to none. Zack Arias and John Greengo have such great ability to communicate information, technique and ideas in such an easy going way that you can’t fail to learn and be inspired.
I love the fact that its live – in real time, I feel like I am there with you in the classroom, the high standards you are setting makes it an absolute pleasure to watch and be part of. The fact that it is free to watch is amazing, the openess, philosophy of sharing and the community that you are creating with Creative live is very refreshing and inspiring.
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 London, UK, the live feed starts in the evening and goes on into the early hours 3 – 4am, for the weekend courses its not much of a problem staying up late in fact it made it a really cool weekend event for me. I did nod off to sleep on the Friday right at the end so the re runs was useful to catch up on – would there be any way of staggering them for different time zones? As for the John Greengo and Art Wolfe courses they started here at 7-7:30pm and fished up at about 9-9:30 which is perfect evening time.
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 certainly works for me! I must say that I feel more connected to what you have going on in the US and Seattle photo-community wise through Creative Live than I do here living in London, guess thats the power of the internet! The experience is a very positive one, I would love to be able to be more involved and help out in some way even though I live so far away. I have been telling as many people I know about Creative Live. Would like to see David Hobby,Joe McNally do a course/workshop. Can you get Zack back as soon as possible to do a business kind of course…!!! Got to just say that Zack’s workshop was superb, his whole philosophy to being a photographer was just as inspiring as his use of light.
Would like to take this opportunity to say a big thank you to the CreativeLive team for making this all happen and wish you all the very best with future projects.
1 It’s free and you can watch it almost anywhere in the world (except, perhaps, in places where the internet connection is awful and believe me, those locations still exists). Also, the “teachers” know how to keep the attention of the participants, I mean, they weren’t boring.
2 Valparaíso, Chile. And I mostly watch it the same moment of the broadcast.
3 Yes, it works. I can hear, watch, learn and ask questions in the chat or twitter so you can really be part of the course even though I’m far away from creativeLIVE.
oops, I forgot to say:
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU SO MUCH
Thanks John Greengo, thanks Scott Bourne, thanks Zack Arias (the courses I could watch)
And thanks to the creativeLIVE staff for give us this opportunity 🙂
1. Access, price point and questions – I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and I’m not often wondering to myself – so which pro seminar should I attend this weekend? If you live in NY,LA,London, etc that might be a real question but here your choices are buy a good book or an instructional DVD. The access creativeLive gives to top talent is second to none. Combine that with the price point and it’s a grand slam home run. The price tiering of free, $79 and $129 says it all – the idea behind creativeLive is to teach photographers of the world and for those who have made a good professional life out of their talents with a camera to give back to the community. Lastly, the ability to ask questions as part of the experience is a big plus. It’s important to have the creativeLive team culling questions from the chatroom so that questions add to the discussion rather than steer the workshop off course.
2. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
3. The format really works. Plain and simple – it feels like you are there. Zack’s format over the three days was perfect – Day 1 theory, equipment and basics, Day 2 Slow walkthrough of different set ups, and Day 3 putting it all into action on a shoot
Thank you so much Zack
Thank you so much Chase
Thank you so much creativeLive team
You inspired this Canadian photographer big time. It’s one thing to be taught by a talented person. It’s something more when the talented teacher is a great person.