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. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others? Video & sound comes in cleaner, less garbled than most. Scrolling of Twitter comments is occasionally interesting – mostly not when folks are trying to bump up their entries for the “door prize” – but seems to be a great way to submit questions and get a quick response.
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? Watching from Portland, Oregon. Couldn’t stay for the whole three days because of family, prior commitments, etc. but watched live when I could and also bits & pieces from the re-broadcast later in the day. Wish I could have seen more…
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? Since it’s live, it feels real and sincere. You see the warts & all, and how people cope with tech weirdnesses, and even fatigue at the end of a long day. Questions are dealt with as they come in. So it’s much more like actually being in the room. You worry about the model, care about the crying kid, wonder how the presenter is going to answer THAT question, etc. Typical training DVDs come highly polished – sometimes too much for my tastes – and so don’t give you the sense the instructor is trying to “connect” with you. DVDs are clearly a show with the presenter on one side of the glass and you on the other side, watching.
Thanks for the great training opportunity! Best to all involved!
CreativeLive’s approach is like being in the studio or workshop participating with the attendee’s. I’ve only seen your interview with Zack, which was very cool, and Zack’s workshop (awesome), but you’ve got me hooked and can’t wait to see more.
I live in the Dallas/Ft Worth area, trying to survive the heat of summer shooting very early, very late or inside. C’mon October!
For me your format is dead on. You deliver solid info to all levels of shooters, sharing what got you where you are with the masses. Who could possibly ask for more.
Great stuff Chase!
Carl
1. This was my first experience watching a creativeLIVE class. I love the “LIVE” approach. It was extremely valuable to watch Zack manage the shoot this way. This is the way it happens in real life when there are not a bunch of re-do`s and editing out of mistakes.
2. I live in Kirkland Washington. It was killing me to know this was happening so close to me and i could not just go be there in person. Watching it live was the next best thing.
3. I was able to get my wife engaged in watching the re-watch until about 1am! She just kept saying….” is this live? this is cool”
I look forward to more of these and i am sure letting all my friends know about it. I will also be collecting the downloads for future reference and teaching.
Thank you Chase and everyone involved!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jeff Heinz
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1) Accessibility, and it’s free
2) NW, Indiana I view at home. Can’t watch from the day job.
3) I think it’s an idea who’s time has come.
I have not yet watched (participated?) in a class yet because I have a day job. I was fortunate enough to catch the ZA interview after work and the replay of the roundtable the next day. I am hooked and I’m sure I’ll be in on one but time is such a premium for me. I have a 40 hr/wk job, two kids, a(n awesome) wife, and shoot on weekends/evenings. I had a wedding at the time of Zack’s class and then time with the kids, home maint, etc… This is by no means a complaint but what I’m getting at is there are probably many other folks in my boat who are going to have to pay for the downloads because we just can’t participate live due to scheduling. I REALLY wished I would have pre-ordered Zack’s class but…that ship has sailed.
For what it’s worth, I was looking at paying for something like Kelby training and weighing the cost of that vs. the downloads at creativeLIVE. The cost difference is huge and so is the content. Again, not a complaint just an observation. My budget is in the double digit range until I start making $ from photopgraphy or I don’t need to buy diapers any more. I’m not saying the downloads are expensive but if I can’t get the free view because of time then it’s not free for a guy like me. Maybe a package rate…I don’t have the answer.
It’s so cool what is available on the internet for photo education now. Thanks for putting your knowledge out there and wanting to help us be great photographers.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
To be able to get a class like this, without having to travel, is incredible.
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?
Pennsylvania, on the Pittsburgh end. I wasn’t able to watch the live feed (many thanks for offering the downloads as an option), except for a bit on Sunday afternoon. Had I been home, though, I’d have caught the first go around.
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 think this went really, really well. You’ll never get exactly the same environment as a small workshop, as far as personal attention, but I think the ability to offer it to so many people is worth that trade off.
I’d consider it a pretty huge success, myself. And as much as was covered over 3 days, I’d have probably paid for the downloads even if I was around to catch the freebie. Nice to be able to go back through them.