Chase Jarvis Runs a Three-Minute Mile
Please fasten your seatbelts and place seat backs in the upright position. The On Assignment Bullet Train is leaving the station in 3, 2, 1...
If you like your Chase slower -- and with homemade chill music -- catch his long-form photo career pep talk here. And definitely take a look at his website if you don't already have it set as your home page.
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If you like your Chase slower -- and with homemade chill music -- catch his long-form photo career pep talk here. And definitely take a look at his website if you don't already have it set as your home page.
NOTE: If you are watching this via email subscription, you may have to click through on the headline to view the video.
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Posted at 9:35 AM.
34 Comments:
This video rocks. concise and to the point.
He fails to mention a winning personality, and confidence as core components. :-)
Jeez, a complete commercial shoot, with post, in under three minutes - that guy works FAST!
I love the behind the scenes stuff that Chase does for other photographers so much. But I will never change my home page to his website. That spot is reserved for "STROBIST".
wow - thats a lot of material in two and a half minutes
thanks chase and david
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made me tired just watching it. great shots, great video...
Web 2.0 indeed, I just watched his Photoshelter talk yesturday, and is webpage may just end up as my homepage haha.
But he really knows what he's talking about, and I'm glad the video's available on the web.
Good stuff, but I refuse to change my homepage from Strobist.com. Nope, won't do it, can't make me!
Sportrait
Excellent video with some good info! Too short though. It's always fun to watch Chase work
fantastic
Man o man. Chase is a creative machine. Thanks for posting DH. With so much gear talk these days, it's refreshing to get some big picture theory. TK
Very nice post about Chase Jarvis. It was no problem holding on for his 2:30 minute video of the golf photo shoot. After watching it, I decided I need a photo team. How cool is it having someone help you carry your photo gear and set up your strobes. For my photo, assignments I am the photo team. That's why I travel a lot lighter in the Strobist mode. Great job with the website.
Robert
http://www.photographyandthemac.com
When I click on the video, it says the video is no longer available. However, it does play but is about 3 stops under exposed.
video is availabe, despite warning that it is not. However, it is too dark to see well, about 3-4 underexposed in appearance.
Jolly nice of him to put that video together for us, and cracking pictures too.
The talk of contracts and budgeting is a good reminder to all of us that money is as much a part of the shoot as setting up the lights.
Thanks for the heads-up on the bad link. Teach me to throw up a post on the quick as I am eaded out to a shoot in the morning...
-D
Video to dark...imposible to see nothing....
For those eternally complaining about the video, this is and has been a problem with YouTube. I continually get "video not available" when trying to watch embedded YouTube vids.
Go straight to the source when that happens. If it loads there, it's available and always displays fine for me:
YouTube - Chase Jarvis speed video
Very impressive and informative. I'll definitely check his site!
So much to read and learn!!
Woah... Always impressive. But I'll keep my daily sequence of blogs: Strobist, McNally, Kelby and I'll add him as the fourth one.
Woah... Always impressive. But I'll keep my daily sequence of blogs: Strobist, McNally, Kelby and I'll add him as the fourth one.
Sometimes when viewing through a news reader, I'll get the "bad video link" warning, but in this case, it showed up fine in the Strobist page, and not too dark.
Great video, but he needs to e-nun-ci-ate a bit better, especially when working and talking at super speed. :)
Funny, I don't have any clients that let me drink a beer on the set. :(
Mike Keller
I always hate it when people take ages to get to the point, so this sort of compressed, rapid-fire presentation is very welcome.
Unfortunately, judging from the few milliseconds in which he showed the final shots, his lighting is rather 'meh'. Cross-lighting using slightly different power/distance ratios and some ambient light from behind - this is Lighting 101 stuff.
Hi, it's the start of the Olympics, and I got the URL of this article on shooting for the Olympics: http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/olympicpix/archive/2008/08/06/preparing-for-the-biggest-organized-event-of-them-all-the-olympics.aspx
With more pics here: http://www.vincentlaforet.com/Gear/index.html
Thought your readers might find this interesting.
Yeah , that was sweet. Ive wondered about the logistics of high end shooting like that and that really filled in some blanks for me...The sort of stuff you dont find out without being the coffee monkey for someone....Nice video
absolutely amazing. free education, examples and encouragement coming from one of the best who has nothing to gain by doing this.
Except the free publicity and maybe lift the level of quality in the population overall, of this craft.
How does he shoot tethered so far? The max USB2 cable can get is 5m
This is good - I appreciate that Chase publishes this stuff, as it's neat to see.
However, as Charles said - it's lighting 101 stuff. Not really getting the "creative genius" vibe. Chase is a smart business man, and he's doing a fantastic job marketing himself.
Back to lighting 101 - you don't even need 15k worth of profoto lights to do this - use a body that syncs past 1/250 - shoot at 1/1000 to bring your ambient sky down, and then stack a couple of strobes into an umbrella to achieve the power you need to shoot at F7 or F9. Use a convertible shoot through umbrella, and block half of it off using the black cloth and you can control your light a-la softbox.
And as always, be a photoshop guru. ("We use Aperature and photoshop to create a panoramic composite") Unfortunately, that's where it seems a lot of the magic happens, not behind the lens.
Matthew
Please..... you think that's good. Chase is hosting 100 Seattle Flickrite Strobists to his studio tonight for another one of his crazy shoots. I just moved to CT from Seattle last week or I'd be there for it. Hopefully the Seattle Strobist crew will have some good pictures to show from it in their pool.
Hey David! any chance you'll be making another surprise appearance at Chase's photoshoot at the hangar tonight?? That would definitely make my day.
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David
Thanks for helping spread the good word (and work) of Chase. Having been lucky enough to work for him over a weeklong shoot here in San Diego, I can honestly say he really is THAT cool. To say I learned a lot would be a complete understatement. Chase and his team were the most friendly and gracious people to work with and they deserve every bit of attention and success they are getting.
-Gary
"Nice & tight and lean & mean" ?
Chase is such a jock. Gotta love him!
God I love that guy.
hey there charles and matthew: your comments about lighting 101 made me chuckle. ironically chase and his kind have basically fashioned this as lighting as 101 for you. It's literally him and the other creative geniuses (like mcnally, strobist, liebowitz, etc) and many many others around, before, and since them that have made it available to you as 101. even just 10 years ago this stuff was considered magic and it's only because of these guys and gals and the internet that you likely know anything about it. they have demystified it for you. they made it POPULAR. now, just like some painting master can make a masterpiece to hang in the tate, masters also make sketches on random bits of paper. chase and these other masters also make sketches. and my guess is what we're seeing here is just a sketch, frankly. it would be nuts to assume that chase would/could/have the time to share his most creative genius moments with us. those can't be shared well in a 3 minute video. I'm just suggesting we keep in mind that all of our online heros are not trying to impress us, they're trying to help us, for free, and for no good reason, really, just kindness. not all assignments call for light that defies reality, so keep that in mind too. we have no idea when the ask was of chase for this shot. maybe he's reminding us that it's only fractionally about how intricate your "lighting" is? and just because you could do it with 42 sb800's and a kleenex doesn't mean you should. just like so many of the comments here, i've had the chance to personally watch chase in action and interact with him. it's mind blowing. we should always celebrating this, rather than finding something wrong with it.
great info. short and sweet. well, maybe too short, but full of great and a lot of knowledge.
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