Dec
21
As a springboard from all the portrait work I've done over the past three years, I, at some time during that process, became really attuned/enamored/moved by people's faces and started experimenting with a new creative study. Internally we're calling it "60". In short, it's really simple: I'm taking 60 second video portraits of people. No instruction, no direction, no coaching, nothing. Just the camera pointed at them for a minute. Although the concept is simple,...
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Dec
20
--- Since each of my staff are experts in their own right, fielding a growing amount of questions from you fine folks--and it's nice to get a change in perspective--you'll be seeing more and more posts from these talented people in weeks and months to come. Today, Scott takes the reins and answers a popular question about making great black & white images, with a case study to show you how. Take it away Scotty......
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Dec
13
To want. To be ambitious. To want to be successful is not enough. That's just desire... In this 90 second clip, the actor Kevin Spacey gets to the core of what it takes. Some amazingly simple, powerful words for us all to live by. Happy Monday.
Dec
10
If you missed the Jeremy Cowart episode of chasejarvisLIVE last week--bummer cause it was a really good one. LOTs of good info about the struggles involved in turning pro. Gear talk, starting your business, agents, stories of the lean times, amazing gigs and more. And here's some good news: the above YouTube vid is a rewatch of that broadcast. Jeremy is a great photographer and a uber-talented, hardworking and humble guy. And he's...
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Dec
08
Friends. My team who run the day to day show over at creativeLIVE have put together an amazing deal for the holidays on photography and video "weekend workshops" from your favorite photography instructors - some of the best in the world: Vince Laforet, Zack Arias, Jasmine Star, David DuChemin, Jeremy Cowart and Tamara Lackey. Single courses are all offered $129 (instead of $149), but the really smokin deal is this: all 6 courses...
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Dec
05
FINAL UPDATE: Thank you, thank you, thank you! Together we raised $5000 -- enough to build a fresh water well that will serve 250 families forever--and we did it in under 18 hours. Who makes this possible? YOU and http://www.charitywater.org. Please check them out and continue to give. Consider asking your friends and family to re-direct what they'd normally spend on your birthday this year and send it to charity: water. 100% (yes you read...
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Nov
29
You know Jeremy Cowart. He's an amazing portrait, entertainment, and travel photographer from Nashville - and also the founder of the great Help-Portrait. Lucky for us, we're dragging him up to Seattle for another smash-tastically sweet episode of chasejarvisLIVE tomorrow. I'll sit down with Jeremy for 90 minutes and talk shop. I'm banking that we'll learn how, after shifting from graphic design just a few years ago, how he has enjoyed dramatic success shooting music,...
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Nov
26
For USA readers, yesterday was Thanksgiving - I spent the day with family, being thankful for so much. For the international readers, I hope you joined in yesterday, or perhaps will join me in some thankfulness today. Front and center on my list of things to be thankful for are: health, family, and community. Health makes the whole thing possible; family--immediate and extended--gives me the daily dose of what love really means, as well as...
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Nov
23
Fraction Magazine today launched their annual Holiday Print Sale where, for between $30 and $100 bucks, you can purchase some pretty stunning original photographic art work. I got a DM from them this morning about the sale, went over and took a peek, and was positively struck by a lot of the work. The hook? The hook is that there is no hook. 100% of...
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Nov
09
Many of you know the amazing portrait, entertainment, and travel photographer Jeremy Cowart. Well, good news is here: Jeremy is doing a creativeLIVE course on Experimental Portraiture in Photography. The two-day course is December 2nd and 3rd. If you've ever wanted to know more about portraits, how to shoot first-time models or what it's like to photograph celebrities, this is not to be missed. And remember it's worldwide and it's free to watch LIVE. There...
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