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. I’ve seen and purchased various photography class resources over the internet. I’ve been a follower of the Swanson team offerings for over a year. Without a doubt, the CreativeLIVE production this weekend set the bar in terms of the the kind of quality & relevant information aspiring photographers desire to improve their technical proficiency and craft. I appreciated CreativeLIVE’s class format this weekend because the material was presented clearly, astutely and in a down-to-earth manner. For this viewer, Zack’s expertise and enthusiasm was a splendid combination to help me gain an understanding of studio lighting and to keep me engaged during the three days. The ‘live’ elements (‘students’ in the studio, tweeter’s, etc) created an environment that was dynamic and vibrant. The ‘hands-on’ demonstrations were an invaluable teaching tool and helped me stay in the room with you this weekend.
2. South Austin, TX
3. In this case, the virtual, real-time classroom worked for me. After some research, I pre-paid for the class because I thought Zack’s information would be perfect for my needs and schedule conflicts. As I tuned in on Friday (just to check out what was happening), I immediately determined that the value of the class was superior and was going to exceed my expectations. I like the flexibility that a worldwide (internet) classroom provides. The worldwide aspect of your venture leaves me with a sense of connectedness with photographers who appreciate quality content and who seek to become better artists. I hope that ‘worldwide’ photographers can convince enterprises like yours to continue to provide compelling topics, thoughts and presenters in this ever changing medium. Indeed, Creative LIVE
Thanks Zack and everyone responsible for the weekend class! Much success.
I’ll be short
1. I love it because it’s open to a large audience
2. I’m from Romania
3. Yes, the live format is really cool because viewers can ask questions through the chat room and stuff. Still, there were a a couple of nights when I slept only about 4 hours and after that I had to go to work, but I surely didn’t regret it 🙂
Hope we’ll see more great classes! Thanks creativeLIVE for the effort you put into this and thanks Zack for this amazing weekend (strange, but when it ended, I kinda missed you :D)
1. This was my first CreativeLive workshop but to me it was amazing! Instead of some edited video, you get to see everything that happens, even the mistakes and/or pitfalls of setting up certain shots. This was not only a lot more informative and interesting, I found it a lot more fun.
2. Federal Way, Washington. Wish I could have swung by to say hi, you guys did amazing!
3. I would say it works very well. Everything went along great but with it being shot and streamed live, rather than just watching the same old stale post-production dvd, it felt more like being there. I was glued to my tv the entire weekend.
1. CreativeLive approach is definitely different. I should thank everyone behind this project and wish good luck in future too. It is as good as attending a class especially when there is interaction via chat. And IT’S FREE. Keep it coming.
2. Abu Dhabi, UAE.
3. Except for the odd timing for us in this part of world, which is not your problem, I don’t see any difficulties.
1. I have not tried many online classes before, this was my first. I came across the link to the course random just a few hours before it started and figured I would give it a go since it was free.
2. Norway
3. Wow! I am amazedn with how much I learned from this class. I was stuck to the computer all weekend, for hours and hours! I didn`t want to miss a thing.
Zack was a fantastic teacher, easy to follow, charismatic, and inspiring.
I can not thank you enough for this opportunity to learn more about my favourite topic! It was not just boring talk, even all the talk was fun! And it was great to be shown how to take the photos too!
I am so inspired and motivated after this course! Now I will do everything I can to make my dream come true about being a photographer.
I would recommand Creativelive to everyone! It is just fantastic! You did a great job making these classes special!
Never seen anything like it thats for free!