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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I’ve really enjoyed watching what I have of Zack’s session. He is a very down to earth guy and so open to offering up all that knowledge he has.
As I live in the UK, it was quite hard finding time to watch even some elements of the sessions live, or during the rewatch. As it is I always knew I wanted to have the sessions to keep so bought the download pass as soon as I could.
The recorded quality is great and I look forward to viewing them all once I’ve finished downloading the last day.
Keep up the good work and lets have more sessions like this one.
Jonathan
Hawk Danger rulez!
I love this format. It appeals in a way that reality TV appeals to mass audience, except I’m interested in this content. It really feels like I’m at the seminar because of the unpredictability and spontaneous nature of the presentation. That aspect, rather than a slick edited piece, appeals to me. I feel like I can work and watch at the same time, which is important when they are 3 day seminars. If I could afford to take that kind of time off, I would probably still go to one in person.
I’m watching from a couple hours north of you in Maple Ridge BC, Canada.
I leave the feed on so I can watch the live and the replay. I couldn’t watch the whole thing so this way I caught some of it each time I watched.
Thanks for this!
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different? it feels very inclusive. previously the seminars that i have paid to attend have offered me information, but always with a sales pitch, or some level of discomfort, as we are all at different levels on the learning curve, and because there is not just one curve to learn — i.e., maybe you know a lot about your camera, but not about lighting. or maybe you are a photoshop guru, but keep your camera on auto. there’s a certain posturing that goes on that is a bit distracting. this transmission was amazing, to be able to participate from all the way across the country, and not be pitched to or made to feel at all uncomfortable, and not have to pay for a flight and a hotel on top of it, yet come away with some incredible lesson experiences.
to see a shoot in studio. live. to be able to get information on lighting ratios. in action. to hear the scattered words of wisdom about business practices. to have those questions answered about whether to spend money on new lenses or lights, and how best to use your monetary resources and why (that never comes without some sort of sponsorship, with the exception of here).
additionally, where are you, the sole proprietor, EVER going to get a demonstration of all the modifiers and what they do? you go into this business blind, base your buying decisions by reading blogs and doing research, and then refine your buying choices based on your day in day out experiences, but you are really never able to see all of your options side by side at the same time, unless you know someone who has a large equipment library (and, unfortunately, given the state of the industry, and the resentment toward those that are inexperienced at something you might be experienced at, there is not much sharing out there.) wow, i’ve got a lot to say about that, huh? simply put, it was brilliant. it was awesome. zack rocks. hard.
2. Where in the world do you live? florida. pray for the beaches.
3. Does this live worldwide format really work? yes. there were no technical difficulties, no buffering delays, and aside from the start up process with the board for the “takes,” no minor annoyances even. i had to be a bit creative in dealing with weekend responsibilities, but it was so worth it to be able to see the seminar in real time, to ask questions and have them answered, and to participate in the giveaways.
it would have been great to have a little notice about the breaks, but given how responsive the presentation was, i’m not sure there was any way around that. i stand in awe of zack and the energy he was able to harness to keep up with the strenuousness of doing all of that at the same time.
thank you a thousand times over.
Joey Lawerence would be rad!