30 Day Vlog Challenge - Say Whaaat?

Submitted by Kenna KlostermanPosted on March 30, 2012 - 12:59pm

Some of you may remember me from my post on what I learned from doing a 30 day blog challenge.  If not, give it a quick glance over to see some of the highlights from the month I refer to as the 'bootcamp' for blogging.

Today I'm coming to you offering a new personal challenge, which is 'that' of doing a 30 day VLOG challenge.

Yes, you heard right.  Video blog.

These things are beasts, and they take a ton of time, and I can't imagine how I'm going to do 30 in a row during the next month.  Hell, I've only done 13 my entire time as a photographer!

In either case, I've come to embrace the fact that video is going to be a major player in online marketing - and I figured it was a great idea to get comfortable with it early on.  There is a lot of potential with the capabilities of video blogging, and I think the ones who take advantage of it in the earlier stages are going to be reaping the rewards once the mainstream comes to them for advice and guidance.

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25 Free Songs to Benefit Help-Portrait

Submitted by Kenna KlostermanPosted on March 19, 2012 - 1:14pm

Today we invite you to help us celebrate three of our favorite things! The creativeLIVE family holds a special place in our hearts for the Help-Portrait movement. Help-Portrait founder Jeremy Cowart hosted live round the world coverage of Help-Portrait Day 2010 from our studio in Seattle right after his amazing Experimental Portraiture workshop on creativeLIVE. We even streamed live free "How To Plan a Successful Help-Portrait Event" Skype discussions with Jeremy in 2010. For those of you not familiar with the organization, Help-Portrait is a community of photographers coming together across the world to use their photography skills to give back to their local community. 

We also love The Music Bed who has supported creativeLIVE with licensed music. As The Music Bed says,"Royalty Free Music Isn't Hard to Find, Great Music Is."

Here's an amazing win-win opportunity for all of you! Jeremy Cowart has partnered with The Music Bed to offer a free music sampler including 25 songs. You can download the songs from NoiseTrade.com and if you're able to, leave a tip. 100% of your donations towards the Music Bed sampler go straight to Help-Portrait to empower that vision.

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Win Fabulous Prizes with Bambi Cantrell

Submitted by KateHaileyPosted on March 15, 2012 - 12:18pm

Thanks to these folks who support creativeLIVE with giveaways.

You know what's happening at creativeLIVE this weekend, right? Posing Master Bambi Cantrell joins us again for a 3-day workshop filled with posing techniques, inspiration and beyond. As if that isn't enough, we have some amazing giveaways!

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Shooting Tethered at the creativeLIVE Studio

Submitted by Nikko MamalloPosted on March 13, 2012 - 7:44pm

Zach and Jody Gray - Shooting Tethered

Hey, it's nikko again, I'm the media & tech guy here at creativeLIVE, in for another creativeLIVE tech blog. We do a lot of tethering with our photo workshops and most of the time we don't want to have a computer on set to clutter things up. Getting rid of clutter is a great idea, but often this means putting the computer 50' off set if not further! During our recent Wedding Photography Weekend workshop with Zach and Jody Gray our computers were on the first floor while shooting was taking place on the second floor and even outside; at times this was a cable run of 96 feet! Sure, you could get a Wireless File Transmitter for your camera and set it up to work with your wireless network, but that would set you back $700 and would only work with one specific camera. What I'm about to share with you is a $40 - $80 solution for tethering any camera 32' - 64'  away from your computer.

 

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Light Up Seattle with Don Giannatti

Submitted by Kenna KlostermanPosted on March 8, 2012 - 1:35pm

Don Giannatti is ready to shed some LIGHT on our cloudy Seattle! Congratulations to the six photographers who Don has invited to join his Lighting Essentials workshop LIVE in person at our creativeLIVE studio.  

Thank you to everyone who submitted a video. We'd love to have you submit again - there will be PLENTY o' opportunities!

We look forward to seeing ALL of you out there LIVE on our online global classroom April 5-7th for three exciting jam packed days of Don Giannatti! Learn his "subject centric" approach to control light in every situation. Sign up to save your FREE virtual seat NOW - http://cr8.lv/wizwow

In the meantime, start learning from Don by checking out his educational blog www.essentials-for-photographers.com! 

Drumroll...... the six photographers will be...

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These Six Will Join Bambi Cantrell

Submitted by Kenna KlostermanPosted on March 1, 2012 - 8:03am

Above - Tessa Harvey: @tessaj

 

CONGRATULATIONS to the six photographers selected to join Bambi Cantrell for her Posing Masterclass on creativeLIVE Mar 16-18th! We can't wait to meet you. Kudos to everyone who submitted videos, we wish we could invite all of you! 

Bambi is going to knock your socks off with her master posing techniques in her free online workshop - save your virtual seat by enrolling on the course page. She'll be knocking out posing challenges left and right for 3 straight days in true Bambi style. Bambi will teach you how to pose someone tall next to someone short, a plus size woman in a flattering way, different skin tones next to each other, large groups and SO much more. 

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