Watch as award-winning photographer Chase Jarvis spells out all the steps of a commercial photo shoot from concept and contracts to delivery of final images. Check out the tech specs of his equipment, lighting diagrams, and all the details you need to nail a shoot of your own.
Using a camera, strobes, and exploding
water balloons, you'll see how Chase
and his crew freeze ultra high-speed action in the studio. Watch the results of this process, combined with Photoshop compositing, to create final still images for Superfad's Kung Fu HD project.
This is an uncut series of still photographs created in 5 days for personal work and for promoting the 2007 Hasselblad Masters. It is likely that only 6 to 10 of the 2000 images herein will ever have a commercial or fine-art life.
Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam) and Barb Ireland (The Fags) cover "Cool Water" by Hank Williams at a Songs for Eating and Drinking dinner; Sand Point Naval Air Station, Seattle, WA Produced by ChaseJarvis.com and OnePot.org and Directed by Chase Jarvis.
I hired Digital Capture Systems to wrangle all my images for a 4-day commercial shoot in San Diego and they did a great job. Their concept of a high-powered, mobile photo workstation is a great one and I thought I'd pass it along.
Stone Gossard (Pearl Jam) and Barb Ireland (The Fags) play "salmon song" at a Songs for Eating and Drinking dinner; Sand Point Naval Air Station, Seattle, WA Produced by ChaseJarvis.com and OnePot.org and Directed by Chase Jarvis.
Arthur & Yu perform "3 Horses" at a Songs for Eating and Drinking dinner; Sand Point Naval Air Station, Seattle, WA. Produced by ChaseJarvis.com and OnePot.org and Directed by Chase Jarvis.
Head Like A Kite perform "We Were So Entangled" at a Songs for Eating and Drinking dinner; Sand Point Naval Air Station, Seattle, WA. Produced by ChaseJarvis.com and OnePot.org and Directed by Chase Jarvis.
Fences perform "We Wore Panthers On Our Hands" at a Songs for Eating and Drinking dinner; Sand Point Naval Air Station, Seattle, WA. Produced by ChaseJarvis.com and OnePot.org and Directed by Chase Jarvis.
The Saturday Knights perform "Nobody" at a Songs for Eating and Drinking dinner; Sand Point Naval Air Station, Seattle, WA. Produced by ChaseJarvis.com and OnePot.org and Directed by Chase Jarvis.
tiny vipers perform "What Time Takes" at a Songs for Eating and Drinking dinner; Sand Point Naval Air Station, Seattle, WA. Produced by ChaseJarvis.com and OnePot.org and Directed by Chase Jarvis.
The Saturday Knights freestyle with Stone Gossard at a Songs for Eating and Drinking dinner; Sand Point Naval Air Station, Seattle, WA. Produced by ChaseJarvis.com and OnePot.org and Directed by Chase Jarvis.
Head Like A Kite cover "Ohio" by Neil Young at a Songs for Eating and Drinking dinner; Sand Point Naval Air Station, Seattle, WA. Produced by ChaseJarvis.com and OnePot.org and Directed by Chase Jarvis.
Arthur & Yu perform "don't piss into the fire" at a Songs for Eating and Drinking dinner; Sand Point Naval Air Station, Seattle, WA. Produced by ChaseJarvis.com and OnePot.org and Directed by Chase Jarvis.
The following is a series of 3954 still photographs shot during the last few winters - mostly at Stevens Pass, WA. These images have been stitched together to highlight what it takes to capture just a handful of professional ski and snowboard images. Thanks to everyone whose turns, airs, and jibs appear herein. Pray for snow. - Chase Jarvis
