Aug 05

Everything You Weren’t Taught About Taking Photos: How to Make an Image While Making Tough Decisions on Set (Amidst the Drama of it All)

chase jarvis naked juice
Background Story. This image was a part of a global campaign — print, OOH and digital - for Naked Juice in 2011. This image was one image in a series of 6 ads where the goal was to achieve what we were calling "the Naked Lens" — a superwarm, hard backlit look, complete with lens flare and jeweled tones throughout the image. While it might be an overused look these days — lens flares hadn't... read more ›
May 17

Software To Replace Photographers [The Ones That Deserve It]

photo mark_Petapixel_a1_mini on chase jarvis blog
Photographer Mark Meyers just wrote up a nice enough story aimed at driving awareness fear in professional photographers ... fear about the future of their career, their well-being, their jobs.   Depicted in that article this image at left, which was completely generated by the author of the post using an emerging 3d modeling software called Blender. The quote that stands out from the article is this one: "If you are a photographer that makes... read more ›
May 16

Learning Speedlights – The First Step in Expanding Your Photography with Lighting

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 ›
Aug 02

New Website

Lots of updating and housecleaning going on around here lately, the most fun being the launch of our new site here at www.chasejarvis.com. As such, I wanted to invite you to poke around our new digs. Lots of new photos--twenty something new galleries, there's finally a video page, and...well..a lot more. And we're continuing to update and transform the site into a smooth machine over the coming week. That said, your feedback is incredibly valuable... read more ›
Jan 26

Flash Bus Tour: Learn to Light with McNally & Strobist

These guys are a blast one on one. Put them together? Watch out. It's a combo of awesomeness, mad science, MythBusters and the two guys in the balcony from the Muppets.... That said, if you wanna learn small flash lighting, no doubt this will be a great class and great value... Learn the fundamentals and the tricks of the trade from my homies David Hobby (Strobist) and Joe McNally. Two of the best photography instructors... read more ›
May 07

Deconstruct This Photo 3.0 – Revealed

Thanks again to everyone for throwing down your thoughts on how I shot this photo. Lots of good ideas presented in your answers, and lots of you nailed several components of image. Overall, I think Derik got the closest to detailing how we did this, so if Derik will ping us offline, we'll send him a signed copy of TBCITOTWY. In the meantime, here's the debrief of the soccer shot from my portfolio. 1. Environment.... read more ›