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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Chase,
I just finished watching this video on YouTube. I know I’m late but I had to tell you how great of a video this was.
I am starting a new career as a photographer. Currently I am working mostly in local portrait work but my desire is to expand into more assignment work for advertising and promotion. I am also starting late in life compared to other photographers I see. In fact I am certain I am older than you and most of the photographers I admire.
To say the least it is scary to be at my age and trying to rebuild a new career. Which is exactly why I loved this video. I love its honesty and frankness about working and at the same time not making it sound “doom & gloom.” I loved the fact that you and Zack made the point of yes its hard, but its worth it because we love what we do. Starting out its so easy to forget that. I’m not starting my career because I just want to be rich or financially well off (though that certainly doesn’t hurt) but I’m starting it because I’ve dreamed of this since I was about 17 years old. I’m starting this because I refuse to die and leave this earth with this still inside of me.
I am not the greatest photographer, I have so much still to learn and to figure out, but I get up everyday and dive into some form work with photography from reading, shooting, editing, learning, whatever.
Who knows, maybe one day I can set on a couch across from Chase Jarvis and talk about my great love of photography as well.
I really like Zack’s workshop, I think is one of the best workshops out there. There are few photographers that shares the way of thinking like he does. I just would like to see other workshops of him and perhaps with David Hobby, and you.
I am new into the photography, I started about a year ago and when I started using it I thought that I don’t like to take “regular” pictures so and that I wanted to do something special with my camera, so I decided to learn seriously, and professionally.
I live in Mexico City and workshops like Zack’s are very expensive or they are very limited.
After taking pictures for a while I reached the point where you look at other people’s pictures and it doesn’t matter what you do, I was not achieving the same quality and that’s when you realized how important post-production is, and you start asking to yourself what really makes a good picture: the concept, the composition, the post-production. Maybe it’s all combine, but if you don’t know what and how the professionals it is frustrating some times.
What I would like to see is the following:
– From start to end on how a professional take a picture. Almost like “one day in the life of Chase”.
– Try to replicate other photographers pictures like Annie Leivobitz, Greg Heisler, etc. As photographers we are very visuals and I think just to see and listen your thoughts on how other photographers did their pictures while you trying to replicate them, can give us better ideas.
Big fan of CreativeLIVE, it is adictive.
it was great i want to see more of this type videos
It’s really good idea and great job………it help us to attend and get more experience from you and your guests. I’m proud because I’m now one of your students.
From Saudi Arabia, live in Ireland.
This format works, I learned new things and I hope to learn more and more. even if cost me money I will buy it, it deserves
If you don’t mind I would like to put Arabic subtitle and let Arab people take their chance to watch what you do
Thanks million Zack for this effort.
1. What makes the creativeLIVE approach different, better, worse? How does our class format compare to others?
R: I would say it is definitely quite unique and nothing I heard about comes even close in my language (French).
2. Where do you live?
R: I live in France. The replays are mandatory for me to be able to follow, especially the day-long sessions. I didn’t believe I could follow Zack’s class because I had a tight schedule but in fact I easily could watch each day!
3. Does this live worldwide format really work?
R: This format feels very comfortable to me. The interactivity is real and I’m surprised how close it feels from actually being in the class in person. For that I use only the creative live interface to be able to watch the presenter. I believe the fact there is a live audience is also important. Of course sometimes there is connexion glitches but nothing that couldn’t be resolved in a minute with either reload or switch to low bandwidth. The overall quality for me has been excellent (I mean it) and I sincerely can say that there is no other way I could have this quality of information delivered. DVDs are great but this is way much better! In short CreativeLive already exceeded all my expectations, seriously. And the fact it’s the free is just incredible. I will definitely buy David DuChemin seminar, if not to watch it in loop, at least to support the platform! Thanks a million.