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Today and Forever

Posted by britneyelyse at 15 June 2011

Category: (A) Bootcamp 2011, (b) Reviews

Tags: Ashley Huffaker, Britney Brent, education, flash, intern, intern experience, internship, Jeff Bushaw, Laurel Scott, learning, Megan Janelle Cox, orchard, photography boot camp, scott jarvie, studio pictures, Zack Huffaker

Knowledge is obtained through time and continues to grow each and every day.

(Photos by Britney Brent unless marked otherwise:)

Hello all!!! My name is Britney Brent. What a blessing it is to be able to have people in my life to help me grow and be better in every aspect of life; particularly in PHOTOGRAPHY!!!!! Photography is a passion I developed my during my first year of college. I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my life, who I wanted to be, how I wanted to contribute to society, but I just wasn’t able to figure that out throughout my classes in college.

My roommate had an awesome Nikon film camera that she let me play with throughout our rooming days. I absolutely loved my life when I was behind that camera. It literally brought me a joy that I never even knew I could experience. However, for 3 more years I worked in college to do what I thought would be better for me by getting a college degree. Only, I wasn’t happy there.

Those experiences are what have brought me to where I am today. Those experiences helped me decide to get training where I really needed it, where I would be most benefited, and in a field that I knew I would be happy doing for the rest of my life! Those experiences brought me to Scott Jarvie Boot-camp!!

I’m not the quickest learner, and sometimes I do have to be shown how to do something a couple times before it clicks, but that’s okay. Having 3 other interns with me throughout this 10 day camp was very helpful, I was able to ask and observe them to learn different aspects throughout our time with Scott.

Now for the play by play of my boot-camp experience:

Day 1 – Using location

Location is HUGE when it comes to photography. Location can literally make or break a photograph in my eyes. How you use the area where you shoot is so important, and SO EASY!!! I was one to go to a location and use it for a few shots and move to a completely new location because I didn’t know how to USE the area. With the help of Scott and some creative games he used with us I was able to better learn how to use a location to its fullest. How to make one location look like 12.

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An Intern’s 12 Steps of Personal Realization

Posted by rockymt_woman at 14 June 2011

Category: (A) Bootcamp 2011, (a) Jarvie U Workshops

Tags: (h) Studio Pictures, Ashley Huffaker, Brett Duwayne Cox, bride, Britney Brent, education, flash, intern, intern experience, internship, Jeff Bushaw, Laurel Scott, learning, Makenzie Coghan, Megan Janelle Cox, orchard, photography boot camp, salt flats, scott jarvie, Wedding, Zack Huffaker

My 12 steps (personal realization) of Bootcamp with Scott Jarvie

(All photos in this post were taken by Angela Terry)

I am a better photographer than I thought.

I have a lot more to learn.

Studio is a lot of fun!

I have more confidence in my skills.

Jeff can change a tire super fast.

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The Ten Days of Boot Camp: The Experiences of an Intern

Posted by lcscott at 13 June 2011

Category: (A) Bootcamp 2011, (a) Jarvie U Workshops

Tags: education, intern, intern experience, internship, learning, photography boot camp

This post has been created and written by attendees of the 10 day JarvieDigital Bootcamp 2011 – (Interns for summer 2011)

Photo Boot Camp With Scott Jarvie: The Experience

(All photos in this post were taken by Laurel Scott)

Mile after mile and the Iowa cornfields turned into more fields, turned into hills, turned into mountains as I drove west on I-80 hour after hour after hour for one thousand one hundred and seventeen miles. Destination: boot camp “Shock incarceration,” the “quick-fix solution” to “scare kids straight.”

I had just finished my last semester of coursework at Iowa State and I was more than ready to get out of there – but I had just one more thing I had to do before I could be done forever with my worthless degree and never have to think about that money sucking institution again. I had to have an internship; to intern is to restrict to or confine within prescribed limits, as prisoners of war or enemy aliens. This is exactly what I thought an internship would be like, and for the first internship I started, that is exactly what it was. Stuck in an office with someone who knew less about what they were doing than I did – and I was looking at another three hundred and ninety-nine hours worth of grueling busy-work, just to get a degree I would never use.

As one might guess, that internship didn’t work out – we parted ways and haven’t spoken since.

I really wanted an internship in Ames, where I already had a house, friends and family. I didn’t want to find somewhere new to live – with people I didn’t know in a place I didn’t know.

As my last semester was nearing its end and I had to find someplace to intern for the summer, I started applying absolutely everywhere. Even the places I had no interest in interning – I actually applied to every internship on ed2010.com that even mentioned the word “photo.” This amounted to well over fifty. Unfortunately, most magazine internships are in New York – a place I had less than zero interest in moving to for the summer. I was only interested in either working with a sole proprietor photographer, or in a photo studio at a magazine.

Sitting at my desk, the walls are bare, the furniture bland. The carpet is Cream, the bookcase Biscuit, and the desk Distant Gray. The blinds are Beige, the couch Capri Coast, and the dresser Deserted Island. The walls, I’ll bet you, are White Diamond. And all I can do is sit and stare at my blank computer screen. I need a place to intern.

If nothing is within easy driving distance of where I currently live, then I’ll have to move, it’s that simple. So I started looking into sole proprietors in places where I thought the landscape was attractive, or in parts of the country where I thought I might want to live someday.

I stumbled on a lot of blog posts by past interns of sole proprietors And one of those photographers was Scott Jarvie. I contacted Scott the same way I contacted many sole proprietors in the west – with a simple email explaining who I was and what I was looking for. Most responded saying that they would be away from their base office during the summer, or that they simply were not interested in having an intern.

But Scott responded saying “sweet deal.” As long as I was willing to make it happen, the internship was mine.

Utah is a long way from Iowa – you can’t just drive home for the weekend to visit friends and family – once you’re out there, you’re out there. I was a little apprehensive about leaving for the summer, but I ultimately decided that working with a sole proprietor, Scott, would be much more beneficial in the long run than finding an internship that I would hate that would be close to home.

And so here I am – in Utah – interning with Scott Jarvie at JarvieDigital Photography – and surprisingly enough, I don’t feel like an enemy of war. (more…)

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Day 2 Jarvie Bootcamp: Learning to Assist

Posted by lcscott at 3 June 2011

Category: (A) Bootcamp 2011, (a) Jarvie U Workshops, (c) Tips for Clients

Tags: (d) Tips on Lightroom, assisting photograper, diffusers, editing, efficiency, learning, light reflector, light sync, lightroom editing, lightroom workflow, manual flash settings, mentor, mentoring, mentorship, off camera flash, Photo Sites, photograph editing, photographers assistant, photography workshops, radio sync, rating, reflector, reflectors, style, teaching, ttl, workflow

This post has been created and written by attendees of the 10 day JarvieDigital Bootcamp 2011 – (Interns for summer 2011)
Each post that we will release in the coming days will be about what they learned on that day.

(Photos by Laurel Scott)

INTERN 1

Bootcamp Day 2 – “Creative Solutions”

Today we worked on workflow in the morning:

Reject blurry photos – “X” in lightroom
Pick photos to give to the client “P” in lightroom
Start the rating process – 1 star, 2 star, etc.

In the afternoon we worked on assisting – which involved setting up and breaking down equipment, moving things around, understanding directions, and learning what the different pieces of equipment do. We used off-camera flash, radio sync, light sync, manual flash settings, ttl, diffusers, reflectors, LED lights, “the sun,” etc.

Assisting was all about speed and accuracy – both are very important… but if you can “get it wrong fast” that’s ok because you can also fix it fast, and less time is ultimately wasted than if you had spent a long time getting it right the first time. So following directions, and being able to predict what is wanted, rather than simply stand around waiting for directions, are very important aspects to being a great assistant.
Knowing how to assist is a very important skill, because then in the future, if I were to ever have an assistant helping me, I would know better what kinds of instructions to give to get the result I wanted… fast.

Knowing how to assist is a very important skill, because then in the future, if I were to ever have an assistant helping me, I would know better what kinds of instructions to give to get the result I wanted… fast.

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(Photos by Britney Brent)

INTERN 2

Assisting is Prestiging! (Prestigious:)
Assisting someone in some eyes may not seem to be a very prestigious job. However, it very much is! A master of photography, such as Scott Jarvie, doesn’t just let anyone assist him BECAUSE of how important an assistant is to a photoshoot.
As an assistant it’s so important to KNOW THE EQUIPMENT!!!
As an assistant it’s so important to make QUICK ADJUSTMENTS!!!!
As an assistant it’s so important to LISTEN CLOSELY to instructions!!!!
As an assistant it’s so important to UNDERSTAND THE WORK FLOW of the photographer!!!!
As an assistant it’s so important to know GEOMETRY (if you don’t lol he’ll give you a lesson!)
As an assistant it’s so important to LOVE WHAT YOU’RE DOING!!!
As an assistant it’s so important to KNOW THE PHOTOGRAPHER’S style!!!

Being an assistant for a mentor you love really is a great honor! Latch on and learn every thing you can. Love every second that you have to help him be great. Assisting is a vital role is is a prestigious one… don’t take advantage of the constant learning opportunities that you will have.

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(Photos by Angela Terry)

INTERN 3

“Beep Beep Beep, Beep Beep Beep”

Being efficient is of great importance. There many ways to up your efficiency rate in photography. Using a timer to test how fast your efficiency is just one great tool to help up your efficiency rate.

I have learned that the timer is my friend and is a great tool to help train interns, for good reason. To be good and fast one must learn and practice over and over, and how do you know if you are improving? By timing yourself. It shows improvement and it helps teach yourself with repetition and speed. When working with the light boxes, stands, and flashes; first I learned how to set the items up, but then I was pushed to set them up accurately in a short amount of time. Doing it over and over, trying to beat my previous time before truly helped in my efficiency, but also in my knowledge of the equipment as well as the confidence in using the equipment.

I think the timer has become my new best friend. I now must find a cute timer at Target for my office.

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Day 2 – Basic Lightroom (picking of photos) workflow

INTERN 4

As we work on the photos we have taken, we focus on a software program Adobe Lightroom. This software was created to cater specifically to photographers and their workflow process. It is designed with a basic workflow “built in” but allows for individuals to develop their own specific direction and tools to utilized based on that persons style and needs.

Scott has refined his personal workflow around his editing style and to utilize efficiency as much as possible. As the workflow goes, we progress in layers or steps that narrow down what photos will be worked on and edited. For example: We all get blurry photos for many various reasons. The narrowing down process quickly gets rid of blurry photos and allows the editor to judge to keep or Reject (X Key in Lightroom) ones that might be a little bit softer just in case that particular photo is a unique moment, composition, subject, etc.

The next step in the workflow is to Pick (P Key in Lightroom) the good photos from the ones that may not be so good. Again, by quickly going through and narrowing down to get rid of photos that the editor would simply not want to keep for reasons that should stand out as obviously not a good photo.

We then move on to the first step in the rating process (1,2,3,4,5 Keys in Lightroom (star rating)). At this stage, we either don’t rate (also a 0 star) or add a 1 star to the photo if we want to have that photo continue on as a good photo. This will be continued on very similar to a sports team during their playing season. Al of the teams start out, then progress layer by layer or level by level until they reach the top (1 stars are then narrowed to the better 2s, then 3s, etc. until the very best are 5 stars). Keeping in mind that even the 1 star rated photos will be edited because they were picked as good photos but, the ones that made it to 5 stars will get much more attention towards their editing.

On this day, we also learned how to assist the main photographer. I will discuss this on Day 3 however.