Timelapse shots have achieved ubiquity, yet it’s still a technique I get asked about on the reg. I’ve touched on the timelapse How-To in past posts, but I’m touching base again with a new look at what has become must-have. I love using timelapse in my work. Alternating between real time, slo-mo and timelapse contributes [...]
Get Off Your Ass & Get Noticed with Gary Vaynerchuk on #cjLIVE [Tues, Dec 3 @ 10am PT]
Update: The show was amazing as Gary V brings brought the heat to discuss how you can break through the noise of the internet and get your work noticed. Are people not clicking on your photos? Are you you getting lost in the detritus of the internet? Gary dropped the serious know-how. And he sat [...]
10 Holiday Gifts for Photographers + WIN a Sexy Sony a7 Camera
Good morning friends! As the holidays / gift giving season ramps up each year I get more emails, tweets & Facebook posts from all over the world – husbands, wives, partners, girlfriends of photographers looking for gifts for the creative loved ones in their lives. I know the gift-giving paralysis that can come from not [...]
ANNOUNCING: My Latest TV Documentary Project “Portrait of a City” with PBS
A few years back you may recall I dove head-first into a project that explored my home city of Seattle. I interviewed, photographed, and filmed the movers, the shakers, and the changemakers to better understand the culture of my city’s beating heart. 106 influencers in total, across almost every creative discipline — music, food, theater, [...]
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook – Gary Vaynerchuk Tells You Why No One’s Clicking on Your Photos & Helps You Fix it
Gary Vaynerchuk steps into the chasejarvisLIVE studio next week for our final broadcast of 2013. In preparation for Gary Vaynerchuk’s upcoming appearance on #cjLIVE on December 3rd (here’s the details), I was lucky enough to get an advance copy of his latest book Jab Jab Jab, Right Hook …which I promptly devoured DE-VOW-RDD! in a [...]
LENSTOPIA – The 5 Top Lenses For Your Camera, Part I: Canon
So you just dropped an entire month’s pay on a super nice camera body. Ok. Take a breath. That was a big jump, and we want you making smart moves going forward. Yes, the lens is important. And yes, you can spend 10x what you just spent on a body on good glass. But before [...]
More Than CONTENT, It’s COMMUNITY That’s King [aka How To Cultivate Online Relationships & Stuff That Matters]
You’ve heard the drum beat for a decade – ever since the innernets really started popping… “content is king”. As a content creator (both in front and behind the scenes) this has, of course, always made me feel great about my chances to succeed in cutting through the noise online. Pump out good content and [...]
Putting $21.5 Million To Work for a More Creative World
Wanted to take a break for a hot second this morning — away from studios and airplanes and shooting photos in far away places — to make a special announcement and say a huge, ginormous thank you. If you’ve been a part of this community for some time, then you already know that a few [...]
10 Best Lessons I’d Teach My Younger Self
My dear friend Lewis Howes recently asked me a damn good question. If you could – what would you tell your younger self? My answer sucked. But he told me HIS answer and I thought his answer was a good one… So good in fact that I wished I’d had learned the lessons much much [...]
5 Crucial Thoughts on the New Nikon Df. Does It Deliver?
Wow. Two new cameras on my blog in one week (here’s the other one). I’ve never been a gear whore and don’t like dedicating too much real estate here to it, but I do like me some of these compact cameras. So here we go – quick like. Nikon got the aesthetics right, that’s for [...]
A Hot Minute Hands-on Review of the Sony A7r
The field of affordable mirrorless cameras is widening, even as the gulf in quality between said cameras and DSLRs narrows. I’ve gone so far as to call them DSLR-killers in the past. A little tongue in cheek there, but wrapped in a nice dose of optimism. On the whole these rigs are lighter, more compact [...]
How Photographers Really Get These Shots [hint: it takes a village]
Just stumbled on this image of yours truly working for an advertising photo down at Smith Rocks, OR a few years back. I don’t do a ton of climbing photography – it’s pretty damn specialized – but when I get to, it reminds me a whole lot of why i like to climb. It really [...]
Fire Breathing in Bullet Time [with GoPro Array]
You know I’m a fan of all things GoPro Hero 3+ since it dropped earlier this month. This vid is another reason to dig it. Tyler Johnson of GoPro uses an array of 24 GoPro Hero 3 cameras to film fire breather David Kelley doing his thing. And who doesn’t love a GoPro array. We [...]
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5 Crucial Thoughts on the New Nikon Df. Does It Deliver?
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Putting $21.5 Million To Work for a More Creative World
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How Photographers Really Get These Shots [hint: it takes a village]
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Iceland’s Endless Light – chasejarvisRAW
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A Hot Minute Hands-on Review of the Sony A7r
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chasejarvisTECH: Three Timelapse Toys
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Get Off Your Ass & Get Noticed with Gary Vaynerchuk on #cjLIVE [Tues, Dec 3 @ 10am PT]
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10 Holiday Gifts for Photographers + WIN a Sexy Sony a7 Camera
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ANNOUNCING: My Latest TV Documentary Project “Portrait of a City” with PBS
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Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook – Gary Vaynerchuk Tells You Why No One’s Clicking on Your Photos & Helps You Fix it
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Putting $21.5 Million To Work for a More Creative World
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I Will Give You $50,000 + a VIP Trip to NYC + I’ll Be Your Mentor For Life
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Dream Job — Color Cannons, Flying High & Turning Dreams Into Photographs for Samsung
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Do Less = Do More. The Art of Being Creative + Productive
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12 Tips for Entering the Commercial Photo & Film World [Hint: It's Not What You Think]
