Zack Arias Live Now

Thanks for the heads up. :thumbs:

Pity I missed quite a bit of the beginning, but there is more up after they have finished lunch. ;) :lol:
 
I've watched all but the 1st 10 minutes so far, whilst I like Zach, it is currently aimed at quite a low level and whilst he explains things in quite a good way I have not heard anything I personally didn't know yet.
 
2.5 hours to go yet, but still pretty basic.
 
I thought it was excellent last night. Thanks again to happyfish for putting the word out.

I thought it was very interesting were he said the first thing he thinks about was focal length of lens when he looks or imagines a scene. I suppose more to the forefront of his mind when he is working with his Prime lens setup. Yes, he seems to have Nikon setup with Prime lenses, and a Canon setup with Zoom lenses. :eek:

His demonstration of perspective and depth of field, and how it is affected by aperture, focal length, and distance to subject was also excellent. Just wish I had copy of it all to replay and digest at my own pace.

The last part about composition in portraiture seemed a bit of change of subject to what had gone before, but it is leading on to the following days aim which is eventually to get some of the audience to take some portrait shots live on Sunday.

His beard was extremely irritating though. ;) :lol:
 
I got quite a bit from it. That nasty, wispy beard is really horrible.
 
A pity it wasn't at a more reasonable time for European audiences. Didn't it go on until about 5am UK time?
I like Zack's work and DVDs a lot but I just can't be doing with staying up all night to watch it.
 
It ended some time after 1am. Think it's scheduled for 6pm to 1am our time tonight.
 
They also replay it during the night in america so you can rewatch the bits you missed if it goes on too late.
 
EMA747 said:
A pity it wasn't at a more reasonable time for European audiences. Didn't it go on until about 5am UK time?
I like Zack's work and DVDs a lot but I just can't be doing with staying up all night to watch it.
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It is on live between 6pm and 1am'ish our time, but from 2am until about 9am they have a rewatch and from 10am until about 4pm they have another (the re-watch shows are a bit shorter as they cut out the meal breaks).

So there is plenty of opportunity to watch them wherever you are in the world, and it's free. If you only gain a little additional knowledge or get a bit of enjoyment from the shows you have still got something for nothing, not often that can be said these days.

I have watched most of the Creative Live events and even bought some too, and I think they are great for improving your knowledge and technique, there are few people who know everything there is to know about every technique in photography and it is nice to see people like Zach, Bambi and others giving something back, there is no need to purchase anything in order to watch, so think of it as an opportunity to see how others would undertake a specific task.
 
EdBray said:
... it is nice to see people like Zach, Bambi and others giving something back...
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Ed, did you watch the Bambi Cantrell sessions? Any good? I missed it at the time and now tempted to buy.
 
The Bambi Cantrell ones were the worst thing I've seen creative live put out. She maybe had some good info on posing if you've never done that before, but i couldn't get past the woman. By that i mean her attitude and the way she treated people put me off.

Watching the saturday rewatch of Zack atm, lots of stuff that we've seen before but judging by the questions people are wanting to ask in the irc chat channel its way over most peoples heads.

Day 1 was "How not to be a noob"
Day 2 is a kind of lighting crash course from ambient to broncolor (if you missed the last one i guess)
Day 3 is supposed to be mostly about business which could be interesting and don't think Zack has spoken on this before to any great length or detail?
 
Been really good, but nothing I didn't really know about before, but am looking forward to tonights broadcast. Should hopefully be some good stuff. Yesterdays was very good to see the variety of lighting used.

I really like his teaching style and I like the style of stuff he produces.

I've said it before but i think creative live is an amazing concept that does a lot of good work for photographers.
 
paulcamcas said:
Ed, did you watch the Bambi Cantrell sessions? Any good? I missed it at the time and now tempted to buy.
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I quite enjoyed the Bambi Cantrell sessions, yes she could be a bit annoying at times but some of her posing techniques I thought were very good.

Each to their own I suppose.
 
Anyone watching now? I'm really feeling it for the guy being critiqued. He really needs to hear it but still must be painful.
 
I'm looking for spiderweb shots and moon shots.
 
Did he just visibly cringe when he said he could not be objective with his own work?
 
Lunchtime now.

Question is, do I stay up for the rest of the live show, or do I have an early night?
 
The morning session, first they put the class members to work, Zack played AD and gave them 5 mins of pressure, some nice results but it wasn't especially clear why some people did well and some didn't.

Then up until now its been the Zack and Meg critique show like they do on Zacks blog but going over the classes websites with the victims there to answer to it. Quite funny how some of them had some really awesome shots hidden away and didn't realise it. Again not sure what we learnt from it. More info in the regular crits Zack and Meg do.

After Lunch it'll be business/Zacks stories I'm told... basicly the bit i've actually been waiting for :D
 
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