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…
Chase,
I love the format. I seemed more like a hands-on class than most webinars or even tutorial DVD’s. Zach’s interaction with the audience was top notch.
I live in Western Ohio and the time were fine. Especially since I could pick up the replay later to catch anything I may have missed.
I also caught some of the Scott Bourne aperture program and thought it good.
Eventually, you will work out all of your technical bugs and everything will flow much better.
I really appreciate all that you are doing and thanks to Zach, Scott and all of the other instructors you have brought on board.
Looking forward to more.
Thanks again.
I just recently started using studio lighting. I’ve always been a “natural lighting” kind of guy. This limited my ability to shoot at night and indoors during certain times of the day.
When I watched just the first day (I had previous commitments on the second and third day) of Zack’s class, I had already learned enough to get me started. He took a lot of the “mystery” out of fstops and studio lighting. He answered the majority of questions that I’ve ever had about lighting within the first class.
If I didn’t watch this, I would have spent a large majority of time just trying to figure things out. I haven’t even found a book that explained everything out in the open as he did.
So, all in all, I loved the class.
1. The CreativeLIVE approach is a lot better than other ways that I’ve attempted to learn. I’ve tried traditional movies/DVDs and books. By being engaging with the audience, some of the others who asked questions asked questions that I couldn’t think of, which allowed me to get the information that I needed, but forgot that I needed it.
2. Where do you live? Houston, Texas. When it’s live and in reasonable hours.
3. Does this live worldwide format really work? Yes!
I LOVE CREATIVELIVE!!!! I don’t often make the live classes because of my work schedule, but I buy them afterwards. Will be tuning in on days off tho! Who doesn’t love FREE!
I love learning from people who are doing what they are teaching. And their not just your average creative folk, they’re experts in their fields. I’ve been in creative classes where the instructor teaches the software, but doesn’t use the software in their line of work. I miss the experience. The, “you-can-do-it-this-way,-but-I’ve-found-that-clients-often …” approach makes the class so much more valuable.
I’m on the east coast — hershey, pa — and I’m a creativelive junkie. I’ve learned so much from your classes and wish I could cram even more into my brain. I don’t notice whether you’re across the country or across the globe.
Keep it coming!!
1. It seems more real when it’s live. You guys did a great job interacting with the virtual audience via the chat room and Twitter. It was much better than a stuffy recorded video about studio lighting.
2. I’m from Los Angeles. I watched part of Friday’s session at work (had it on in the background), but had to purchase the downloads to catch Saturday and Sunday because I had previous obligations that prevented me from watching it live. I’m watching the downloaded videos about 3 hrs/night after work.
3. I think it works well. I really dig the audience interaction. Zack was a great teacher. I’ve attended a OneLight Workshop and this broadcast had a similar, intimate vibe to it.
I’m glad I purchased the download as I will now have the material to review on my own time.
I have not been a big fan of webinars and such until you folks came along. I love what you’re doing. I watched what I could of the fundamentals course, but it was a conflict with work. This weekend, I watched the Zack extravaganza every minute I could….my girlfriend and I even suspended some of our activities so that I could watch it, and she learned a few things too. I even listened while I was in the shower! (TMI, I know!) And I’ll be watching the download to pick up what I missed. I would have liked to be in Seattle for this, but since I live literally on the opposite end of the country in Florida, this was the next best thing. I love the format because it feels like you are a part of what is going on and your questions are welcome. A lot of my friends were watching too, and we will be discussing it for weeks to come.
I don’t know what else is on the agenda, but I am so looking forward to the David duChemin workshop when it comes along.
You are giving us instruction and insight into the minds and workings of some of the best in the world of photography. I think you are making a real difference in the lives of photographers and the way we practice our art. I know it’s made me look at what I do with a new perspective. And you can’t beat the price! I hope that you’ll continue doing it exactly like you are and I’ll be soaking up all the info that I can from your future programs.