Beginner or emerging photographer? Well, once you know what’s happening with your camera and all those dials, it’s time to take on lighting and flash photography. In taking that next step - learning to light - you can do almost anything, and nothing opens up this opportunity more effectively and affordably than working with Speedlights, those small on- and off-camera lights that are your entree into a whole new world. ...Which gives me a great... read more ›
893 reads
May
16
Nov
11
Wanna know how to photograph people/celebrities like Aretha Franklin from the guy who has been shooting her covers for the past 7 years? I do too... Fashion, beauty, and celebrity photographer Matthew Jordan Smith brings his knowledge, vision, and photo techniques this weekend to creativeLIVE.com for a superdope free 3-day online workshop (update: that is LIVE, here, right now...) where he'll go thru tutorials on specific photos he's shot in his career, including... read more ›
824 reads
Mar
18
How to succeed as a creative. How to fail. How to translate stills to video. Gear. Insight. Fear. Challenge. Agents, education and more. Your questions and mine answered. If you missed--or want to re-watch--the recent LIVE broadcast of chasejarvisLIVE: a conversation with Vincent Laforet, here's an edited 35 minute version for your perusal. The full 90-minute version of the original live broadcast, featuring extra Q&A, is available via our new audio-only podcast. Click... read more ›
992 reads
Feb
18
Adding cinema/motion/video to my base skill set as originally a still-only photographer has been a big, fun challenge for me. Creatively, professionally, and technically. It's also been good for business. I've noticed that, like anything engaging, it's an ever-evolving, never-satisfied skill set that can be grown quickly by learning from--and with--others. That's precisely why the fine folks at creativeLIVE.com have brought back one of the top HdDSLR instructors in the world, a good friend of... read more ›
490 reads
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... read more ›
441 reads
Sep
05
Hi friends. Lots of requests to re-post this episode of chasejarvisLIVE with Jasmine Star to my YouTube channel. So here 'tis. Those of you in the USA on the 3-day weekend celebrating Labor Day should find some time to take a peek. Reminder that her EPIC 5 day Wedding Photography course is downloadable for a bargain $149 over here at creativeLIVE.com. Also, chasejarvisLIVE featuring National Geographic photographer, culture and food maven, Penny DeLosSantos... read more ›
1.1K reads
Aug
23
Photography has so many facets. The one I know the least about--while ironically probably employing the most photographers worldwide--is wedding photography. It seems the whole photography industry is wild about this genre and its complete re-invention over the course of the last decade. So many people want to know more and--honestly--I need to get up to speed. That’s why I’m happy to host wedding photographer phenom Jasmine Star TOMORROW on chasejarvisLIVE. In just 4 years... read more ›
664 reads
Jul
16
Guess who’s on deck for the next 2 series of creativeLIVE weekend workshops? Two stellar folks: David DuChemin - Vision Driven Photography David’s recent series of books (Within the Frame and Vision Mongers) have carved a niche in photographic education that--prior to now--rarely got discussed. That niche is VISION. The internet has given photographers so many tools to work with gear and specs and digits and all that crap, but there’s been a distinct absence... read more ›
1.3K reads
Jun
25
UPDATE: If you missed our Sarah McLachlan video shoot/performance there's a re-broadcast of the internet feed here on YouTube. Check it! -- First we kicked off chasejarvisLIVE, then creativeLIVE... so you figured out I really dig this LIVE thing. Well, today, I'm excited to share that I've also been working hard with a little coffee company down the street called Starbucks to help bring you StarbucksLIVE. To kick this off, I'm TODAY at 12 noon... read more ›
418 reads
Jun
15
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,... read more ›
2.2K reads