March 27th the colorful day arrives.

When: Saturday March 27, 2010 at 12-7pm
Where: Krishna Temple, 8628 S Main St., Spanish Fork, Utah
What: COLORS – There will be 50,000 bags of Colors for sell.

They will do the event TWICE this year 12pm and 4pm
The initial start of the throwing will happen about 1 hour into each event so about 1pm and 5pm

What happens? Throwing of colors, dancing, chanting, body surfing, indian cuisine, people watching etc…

FB Event with about 9,000 people going and another 4k maybe going + Another FB Event

FB Event for the PHOTOGRAPHERS going to the event – to discuss stuff

Photography

I will be there from before sunrise until after sunset. I will have about 12 other photographers there helping out. (See bottom or contact me for details)
Anyone is invited to come and take pictures, they love having you there and seeing your pictures.

Photography safety

Last year I wrote a post that dealt more with the philosophy of being smart with your camera. It still applies.

This year while I would go without any protection to the camera… I will also be buying underwater bag so I can get a little more crazy and closer.

Key Suggestions:

Stay away from people that are throwing if you don’t want to be thrown on.
Consider a long telephoto lens to shoot from far.
Consider staying in no throw areas. (If you’re more worried)
Use an internal focus, internal zoom lens… or a prime.
Pro lenses will handle the dust better than cheap lenses.
Use lens filters.
Consider a lens hood.
Don’t change lenses, specially not anywhere near the action.
Don’t change memory cards, specially not anywhere near the action, dust can be even more dangerous than water to a memory card.
This means get a big memory card.
Bag them cameras and lenses up… get some tap and cover any openings.

Wear a jacket and tuck the camera inside when not being used.
Make it known you’re not part of the action and they’ll tend to be nicer.

The mentality

This festival is meant for the throwing of colors, what do you expect? You’ll probably get stuff thrown at you. If at once you involve yourself you become part of the crowd and you’re probably fair game to everyone. If you’re clean you could either be a target to some or a keep-clean-sign to others that this person isn’t here to be thrown at.

People in the middle of the fray are way into this and expect anything and do anything.
People on the outskirts tend to do a little throwing hear and there but aren’t as hard core as the center.

Watch out for un-savory characters who don’t care that you’re carrying a nice camera. 99% will respect the fact the other 1% don’t care.

My 1st time experience

I took my brand new DSLR and didn’t cover it with bags or anything. I had a jacket which helped. I kept it under the jacket most of the time until all of a sudden i needed to take a pictures and I pulled it out fast took a picture and put it back inside. When I was in an safe spot I didn’t worry as much. More so when going through the crowds.

I even changed lenses and used an external focus and external zoom lens along with a prime 50mm.

Result: I was fine! The camera bag I was carrying was the hardest thing to clean. (Washer in delicate mode was best) The bag got hit hardest because from behind no one knew I was carrying a camera.
I made a lot of eye contact and was always vigilant of people with bags of colors ready to throw. I avoided areas that might be problematic

Safe Zones – and Crazy Zones

There will be areas (on or in the temple) where throwing will not be allowed for those wanting refuge.
The closer to the throng of people the more you should not have problems with claustrophobia and the ability to hold your breath when the initial throwing happens.

Worst Case Scenario?

Colored corn maze gets inside the camera and you need to take the camera to Kew’s in Provo and for $135 he cleans a large DSLR, meaning he opens it up and cleans out the intire insides.
He’s done a lot over the years after Holi

Photography for the more adventurous or the more paranoid.

Get an underwater casing. They can cost $1500 and up or perhaps get an ewa-marine bag. B&H sells them. for $300-400
They’ll make it a bit harder to navigate your controls but you shouldn’t have any problems taking pictures.

You can even use a point an click made for underwater.
I’ll have an EWA bag for one of my D-SLRs and my G-11 will be in the underwater casing.
Then I’ll probably have another 1 or 2 DSLRs that I’ll prep with bags and tape the night before.

I’m mounting a camera for time lapse pictures right above the stage.

Join JarvieU photographing the event

We will have about 12 photographers shooting the event.
We will have our own safe and clean staging area.
We will have an area for people to come and get portraits done quickly.
We’re syncing our cameras, they’re all getting sorted and edited at once (each photog can use their own pics at home As Well)
We’re printing up 10,000+ business cards with the link to the pictures photos.jarviedigital.com/holi
We’re donating half of the enlargement profits to the krishna temple
We’re using other of the money (if there is any) for future JarvieU events and projects.
We’re contacting newspapers and national media outlets to tell them about the event and offer our pictures for use.
If we can get it done in time we could even do banners they said.
We’re trying to get them all done and online in one day.
We’re experienced on how to edit them well. (But we’ll take as much help as we can that next day)
We’re having a prep our cameras party the night before.

This really isn’t a photo-making event… for me it’s a labor of love.
So if you’re thinking of joining us because you want to make money… sorry think again. You’re free to go on your own and do your own thing.

I do need some help on some of these things.

Let me know what you have to offer.

When things get so busy I sometimes step back and do the lest important things on my list. You know… just to take a break. Well that’s what I did today. I edited pictures from my trip last week.

On my way to WPPI in Las Vegas I spent the night at Bryce Canyon and woke up early to do sunrise picutres. Spent a couple of hours there doing all the stops and then drove through Zion’s and on towards Vegas by night fall.

Here’s a bit of what I did. See the gallery of some of my favorites here

Having the snow on these formations really added a lot to the whole experience. I was suprised just how much snow there was there.
Way more than there was up in northern Utah. But the same snow storm that had hit provo the night before didn’t hit here so none of this was new snow which I was hoping for.

I’ve been using the 8mm fisheye so much for the JarvieWindow that I thought i’d try it with some other stuff.
I must admit… I loved using it and now I’m glad I own it even more. It’s not just a one trick pony like I had supposed.

So I took a couple self portraits. When people travel with me they think I just take pictures of them. Well it’s anyone… Sorry to burst the ego.
And if it’s just me… well we see how that goes. I took a couple pictures of the only person available.

I must say I was surprised to see Bryce that deserted. I didn’t see anyone for the first 2-3hrs of the morning.
I also went to the furthest point of the park for sunrise… had I to do it again I would have chosen differently.
The areas named sunrise and sunset points seemed to be much better. But they seem to glow all day long so I didn’t miss too much.

As for Zion’s – well I didn’t get there at the best time of the day like how I was at Bryce for sunrise.
But I still enjoyed it none-the-less, and made due with the light I had.

I’m a believer that the watermark shouldn’t take away from the pictures… and I’m happy to note that in some cases my watermark even helps make these pictures look even better.
This really makes me very happy.

And I’m loving the extra options I can now do on the blog with layout. And the size of the pictures.

Hope you enjoyed the pictures. I need to go out and do this more often!
Even if i do come back with 1000 pictures and a lot of extra work.

To see all of the last batch of Jarvie Window images from WPPI 2010 - go here

To see all each of the galleries go here – Including the SmugMug Slumber party

Give me feedback on the new layout where I’m putting matching images next to eachother.

I really do Love SmugMug as much as you think I do!

Glad I offered to help them out this week at WPPI in Las Vegas.

The party was way fun… and I’m not a huge party guy.

I lasted way longer than most parties at the MGM suites.

People seemed to be having a lot of fun.

People flipped about the Jarvie Window… I’m serious, like they were floored… and frankly I was flattered often.

And this is a party of hundreds of professional and mostly Full time photographers.

(You guys are all awesome)

I’m just happy that I can share it all with you. Hope to see the awesome things some of you do with it.

So true to fashion the full gallery will be uploaded to a SmugMug gallery.

Please be patient with MGM internet for all 300+ pics to upload. Later tonight.

Not only I give you permission but 1000% encourage you to make Facebook galleries or email or blog or Avatar them (Many have asked)

So have at them and tag these people… because frankly I can’t remember everyone and it’ll be a while before I can get the time to get them on facebook.

Those coming by the SmugMug booth today at WPPI will get pictures like these.
Just ask for Jarvie – or even Wade.

We’ll get them posted the next day.

You folks from yesterday… check out your pictures here

Don’t forget the SmugMug Slumber party tonight -
I’ll be there… you’ll recognize me because I’ll have the funny looking thing on my camera.

Scott Bourne was in heaven me thinks.

OK so maybe this one wasn’t as creative or funny… but she’s gorgeous.

And the guy below had awesome eyes.

Sushi dinner party at the MGM amongst photographers and photography industry exhibitors called the Jarvie Window into action.
Me thinks it will come out a little more often this week.

see them all here

Well Daisy the Dragon is new in the Window.

Yes Daisy is a rockstar… look at that composure with a big huge flash and lens right up in her face just an inch away and lights going off like crazy.
She didn’t even flinch.

WHAT ELSE NEW WITH THE JARVIE WINDOW?

We put 5 people in the window… count it!

We found the effect with glasses (and squished faces. We did some backlighting with flash

We shot against a big softbox and got a white background. We stuck things (hands) way past the window’s edge. (Which means we’ve also worked on adding in some more lighting)

We’ve shot super duper close ups of food.

Even put other random shots of products

It was a free saturday and I woke up at 3:30am!! What’s wrong with me?
Oh and I hosted a photography workshop the night before and had people over afterwards until midnight.

But it’s all worth it.

I went to pick up the model in SLC and then we drove down to near delta to the Little Sahara Sand Dunes.

It wasn’t terribly cold but the wind chill did make things interesting.

We didn’t have a lot of time to think, we were on a tight schedule to get the model back in time for work at 10am.
Meaning we shot for just over an hour.
And yes we got her back in time.

Ingrid is from Brazil and is amazingly beautiful and a lot of fun to work with.
The fact she got up at 4am to go shoot 2 hours away for a short period of time in 35-40 degree weather and not have a coat on… that should tell you something!

There are about 300 more pictures I might post sooner or later. But for now this will have to suffice.

One of my interns (Kara) came along and learned a whole bunch.
Check out her work from the event

Here’s a couple of Kara’s pictures I worked on editing today.

Most people often have a lot of things they say they’ll “get back to” when they have the time.
Well I’ve got tens of thousands of those things.

And right now I’m getting back to a few thousand of them… from May of 08 when I drove down to Caliornia to do a wedding and proceeded to spend a week traveling around California.

I went through several deserts, including mojave, anso borego and death valley.
I went to the san diego vild animal park.
Traveled up the PCH all the way to San Fransisco.
Visited the Salton Sea.
Spent some time in the Sierra’s including Yosemite.
And made lots of other random stops along the journey.

I will proceed to edit them nice and show them off over the course of a few posts.

The first set is from the first couple of days.
Gallery Here

(above) Some Highlights from wild animal park.

(Below) I can’t even remember the name of this place… I don’t think I owned a GPS for my camera at that time either.
Big sand dune.

OH the salton sea… what a beautiful place (sarcasm)

all the following were taken while driving in the car.

This one I actually got out of the car for.

A February Wedding

OK so I’m cheating! This wasn’t taken this February.
Or even last year or the year before.

These pictures were from 2006
I started doing weddings in 2005

Not too Shabby eh?

Now days I take pride in in a consistent level of pictures all throughout a several hundred picture output.
Back then… well I’m happy to share a pretty decent set. Perhaps not as copious, but still pretty good.

Perhaps this post goes to show that maybe what I have improved the most at is developing the pictures and doing edits.
There wasn’t Photoshop Lightroom back then.

This was also before I discovered (had enough money for) low light lenses, and therefore before low apertures and blurred backgrounds.
Just some posing, framing and my 18-70 kit lens.

But the experience was always the smiling Jarvie interaction and capturing who they were.
Did I do that Garrett?

Where they’re at

Garrett has since gone into the Film industry
Jill does a lot of photography herself.
They both do.
I’ve shared some tips in years past, but I’m not sure how far they’ve gone with it.

Garrett is one of the people I suggest to Brides looking for a videographer.
He traveled to California to shoot a wedding I took pictures at.

Garrett can be found on Twitter @garrett_film
His website is http://www.garrettgibbons.com/

They have a child that must actually be pretty big by now.
And they recently left Utah to live in Washington. Though filming can often get them out of state.

Re-Edits!

I took a few hours out of a late night to play around editing some old pictures… from the first camera the D70

So Gibbons family happy 4yr anniversary… enjoy the pictures.
They’re free for digital use wherever.
(Print them off of SmugMug if you want… here’s the Gallery of re-edits)

That goes for any of the old weddings for past couples, I’ll re-edit if there is a reason to.
Heck having 6 interns maybe I’ll take on any re-edits people have to throw our way.

Only 10 Months into Photography?

To those photographers and brides thinking wow all it takes is 6-12 months to be great… well, you didn’t see all the other pictures from the wedding day.
I think any photographer can take some good pictures with enough time and a decent amount of knowledge.

Where I’m at now is the ability to get things done on any schedule, any equipment, and facing any lighting.
And to do so with confident consistency.
And in the end to have a more numerous output of pictures at a higher standard.
The experience for the bride, groom, parents, and party is also much improved.

So yeah 10-20 good pictures from the first year of shooting is pretty cool, but I just want to keep it in prospective, so no one be too complacent with where they’re at.
I’ve certainly never been complacent to stick at the same level I’m at… Always Learning and trying to get better.

Impromptu Decision to do a Workshop

On saturday I created an impromptu workshop on How to find locations and use them.

The reason was because an Intern just booked 2 weddings and had to do engagements and needed place ideas.
I said I had a free Saturday so why not make an event of it.

Not publicized

No one really knew about the workshop because it was immediatly full and therefore I didn’t announce it.
I opened it to the students of JarvieU and they all came.
We invited a few models to join us as well.
We didn’t want a huge caravan of cars… just 2 maybe 3.

No Rest: As we waited for a spot to sit at Red Iguana for lunch… we kept at it. (at least a few of us did)

Did it work?

I hadn’t done an event like this before so it was nice getting an idea of how it worked.

In short…. It was amazing!
Everyone seemed to really enjoy all the information that was shared on locations.
Of course other things were discussed and learned as well.
We even took note of all the spots we stopped at.

It was a fun experience because we had no pre-objective. We were out driving around SLC, just finding new spots.
We even stopped at spots which some attendees probably wondered what in the world we were doing there. And yet we ended up with some of the best shots of the day.

Hopefully beyond finding some new spots they learned to utilize well any location they happen to be at… and are able to see and find spots more easily.

We also had an awesome lunch and time to chat. (Red Iguana is Amazing)

AGAIN?

I have another free saturday coming up and I know the students are really interested.
I also am looking at getting a new Projector for the house and JarvieU events.

So why not?

Another Workshop this Saturday?

I can’t take many people and I don’t feel I need to  charge a regular workshop rate, specially since it’s only one aspect.
So at a fraction of the cost for a full day event. $200

I’ll take about 4 people. JarvieU students are still invited of course but they all know they’ll be kicking it in a separate car following us along.

So if you’re interested let me know.
If there are at least 3 people I’ll do it.

I might continue to do it in the future… but who knows if it’ll be the same cost. Specially when spring/summer comes and my weekends get much more busy with real paying jobs.

We start early and we go until people need to go.
Last time it was 9am until 3:30pm

With a lot of people there the ideas were pouring in.

MORE PICTURES

(We used the opportunity to take All the images by the interns put them all together, pick the best and then I did some editing on some of the best and presently they’re working on the Rest.)

Editing by me and I’ll mention where the pictures were taken by others.

(Image on rt by chuck)

The green location was a total fluke. I think there were a few people wondering what I was doing stopping.
But we had some amazing pictures there. (Picture on Right by Chuck)

We used a lot of simple backgrounds. Close to walls and away from them.

Learned a bunch about subjects interacting with the environment. (i.e. leaning up against etc)

(Picture on Rt by chuck on the left by Melissa)

The park we thought was going to have a ton of spots… but it was actually harder than this other totally random place that we just stopped at without many expectations.

It never fails that while driving around we just find the coolest locations.
This place had amazing lighting smack dab in the middle of the day.

We even took some time to shoot down…

Several of us got in on that action.

(above) One Hot Model! (picture by Summer)

Picture on the Right…Often as we were just standing around… as I’m known to do.

We didn’t do any special lighting… figured it would take away from the objective of learning locations.

(Above by Melissa)

(Above: Taken by Megan)

The time of day really impacts which spots you use and how you use them.
We talked about how things differ based on the time of day.

Of course I made some of the students be models – helps with the learning process

See some more here

SEE OTHER BLOGS by ATTENDEES

Kara Nilsson – From her Blog: Anthony & Whitney

Suzanne Plant on her blog- SmugMug gallery of previews

Presenters

Presented by: Joachim Guanzon & Marden Blake

Aesonica Website here: http://c.aesonica.com/

Joachim’s work can partially be seen on Flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jowchie/

Twitter: @aesonica @mardenblake @kimguanzon

Composite Lighting

This class will be perfect for anyone into architectural photography or commercial photography work.
But it is destined to be an inspiring class just to get your creativity stirring.

You’re bound to learn a ton about lighting from this master of lighting.

Composite Lighting is not something I do, but from what I understand you light up each portion of the picture separately.
So one picture could take 20+ shots with lighting perfect for each item in the frame.

We’ll be having a slideshow and talk about the concepts involved. Ask Joachim some questions.
Then they’ll be doing a live presentation of how it’s done. Of a kitchen.

Sign Up

Friday at 7pm – 2016 N Nuttall Dr. Lehi Utah
This is a Free event open to everyone.
We want to keep it around 30 people since we’re moving around to do an on the spot demonstration
With interest we will probably do live streaming. Follow http://twitter.com/jarvieU to get the link when the time comes.

Sign Up here – Facebook Event

Picture courtesy of Joachim  - http://twitpic.com/12cuu9

The 4th of March JarvieU is putting on the tastiest event yet.

The Low-Down

We’re inviting a mixture of 2 groups.

Photographers and Food bloggers/Chefs

We’ll be learning how to take better pictures of food.

- Helping the photographers to get better at this skill and learn some new tricks.

- Helping the food bloggers learn how to take better pictures of their own food for their blogs and other websites.

Then we eat the food. (I’m pretty excited about this part of course)

Because the process isn’t done when you snap the picture we’ll take it one step farther. We’ll show everyone some editing using lightroom.

Just some quick simple ways to make them look better. (If they haven’t used lightroom before they should come to a quick pre-class)

When Where

The class will be at 2016 N Nuttall Dr, Lehi

Tuesday, March 4th 6:30pm

People Coming

5-6 Chefs/Foodies (Invites)

5-6 Instructors  (Invites)

5-6 Student/Interns from JarvieU (Invites)

5-6  Other Photographers (Open)

How to take part

Those extra people who might want to come will be asked to donate to the food and props fund.

Let me know if you’re interested we will figure out the cost and try to figure out who is able.

For the rest of you we’re thinking of live broadcasting much of the event online.

Let me know how much interest there is

I’m pretty sure we’ll raffle/give-away one spot. Just for the fun of it.

Who to expect

Instructors

Food Folk

BLOG: http://www.kitchenista.org/ – Twitter: @a_n_woodward

BLOG: http://twopeasandtheirpod.com/ – Twitter: @TwoPeasandPod

BLOG: VintageMixer – Twitter: @SLCFoodie

BLOG: http://cookincanuck.blogspot.com/ – Twitter: @BarbaraBakes

BLOG: http://www.barbarabakes.com/ – Twitter: @CookinCanuck

BLOG: Twitter:

BLOG: Twitter:

Plus another 7-10 photographers

You might remember the couple from their wedding day pictures in San Diego… the super sunet.
Check them out here

Their reception was at “The Point” at the huntsman cancer center.

I liked the location and the food was awesome.
If you go to the full gallery you’ll see all the pictures including the many pictures my two interns took.