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; Zack and every other person who were a part of making that weekend happen. It truly was and will be a paradigm shift in the training and learning area. I learnt more in three days than i have in years and it was a pleasure to be a part of the experience.
I managed to while away 6pm till 2am (London time) on three days running being in awe. Thank you again.
I am really loving the creative live series. I have learned so much over the last few weeks. This past weekend with Zack was amazing. I really love the ability to interact with both the instructors and the audience.
Few things I would like to see:
Location photography with Joey Lawrence
DIY filmmaking Series with various guests. Some notable people could be: Arin Crumley, Zak Forsman, Lance Weiler and even Seattle’s own Lyn Shelton of Hump day fame.
Maybe some music classes as well, both lessons in playing as well as producing, mixing etc.
Also, the business of photography, focuses on self promotion, getting jobs, how much to charge etc.
Thanks,
Adam J McKay
I LOVED the workshop. I missed Friday & Saturday’s so I bought the download while it was still $79 & watched all day on Sunday- SO helpful and inspiring!
1. I haven’t been to other workshops/seminars because they’re so expensive- but this was SO much more than I would have ever dreamed of! After I watched it, I kind of felt “…why would I ever spend $1500 on a weekend workshop, when I could just go back and watch this over and over!”.
2. Indianapolis, IN- and I watched from home.
3. The chat was a little overwhelming, so I ended up just skipping out on that, just because there were so many people involved- but I’m not sure what could actually be done about that. Maybe a room dedicated for chit-chat about the seminar, and a SPECIFIC room to ask questions? I’m not sure. But in terms of the video/broadcast- it was phenomenal! I think it’s amazing that you re-broadcast the videos as well…I found myself watching bits of the re-broadcast that same night!
My ONLY “complaint” (I really hesitate to even use that word!) is that the video download is pretty daunting. It would be absolutely incredible to be able to download a single zip file as opposed to 16 (at least 16- I haven’t had a chance to go get the 3rd day video yet) different files. Maybe it’s just my computer, but they were downloading really slow- taking like 30 minutes for each segment…and I kind of feel like if it’s gonna take that long anyways, downloading one MASSIVE file would be easier than going through that process 16+ times!
But yes. This was such a treat. I wasn’t able to make it Fri/Sat, so I almost skipped the live broadcast Sunday & just buy it afterwards- but I’m SO happy I watched live, because I ended up winning the final Westcott package (with the 7ft octa & 2 Apollo’s!). I feel SO blessed to know that there are so many people out there dedicated to making photography accessible to as many people as they can.
You’re offering an incredible product absolutely free (or for a SUPER small price for the download). It’s obvious to everyone that you are all doing this for the LOVE- not for money or ego or whatever…it’s so deeply appreciated!
You guys are all so amazing 🙂 Thanks for all that you’re doing!!
Outstanding workshop this weekend. It’s a great resource and I am strongly considering purchasing the download. More info about the filesize and filetypes on that would be useful. I looked around a bit and didn’t see it. Maybe even a few pointers on how to make a disc backup that plays on a DVD player? Based on Zack’s workshop, I also plan to check out other resources at CreativeLIVE when I have time.
The commercials would have been bearable had they been at the same audio levels, but they were not. If I turned it up enough to hear Zack, the ads nearly blew out my speakers and had me diving for the mute button. It seemed like they only affected certain streaming options, but the audio issue (and the fact that they didn’t pause the content) made them very annoying. This might sound lame, but I want to be able to play the content and set my laptop in an area where I’ve got my hands on my camera and lights or doing dishes or folding laundry or working in the yard and know that I won’t have to drop everything to turn down an advertisement.
Thanks again for the workshop and the major production. It was clear that a lot of people put in a lot of effort and talent in this weekend’s event. Congratulations to all.
1. The CreativeLive approach is appealing because it’s like a try-before-you-buy method. I’ve participated in several live courses with CL. Some, I’ve bailed on and KNEW I wasn’t going to spend the money. Others, I wish I had money in the acct to buy the course! The caliber of instructors that are chosen are knowledgeable and successful which makes it worthwhile to 1) listen in and 2) PURCHASE!
2. I’m in St. Augustine, FL and work from home so the time slots for the classes I’ve participated in work perfectly for me.
3. I love the worldwide format and just participated in my first chat during the Zach Arias show. THAT was great because we could bounce ideas and questions off of each other during the show and ‘meet’ people throughout the world.
Thanks to CL I’ve learned a TON—literally have a notebook full of notes! LOVE IT!