Posts Tagged ‘photographer’

Bay Area Engagements

Posted by ScottJarvie at 23 May 2010

Category: Engagement Pictures

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This is a little teaser of the long engagement session I did yesterday… this was the end of a long day. I didn’t mind because I don’t get to shoot in the bay area very often so why not take a little extra time and take a bunch of pictures all over the place. Now next time I am asked to come back and shoot around here I’ll know what to expect and have some great ideas.

There’s a reason why the end of the photo shoot is always the best pictures… often because the lighting is the most dynamic and also because when you take your best pictures you decide then that you’re about done and therefore the best pictures were at the end.

But as for all the other hundreds of pictures all throughout San Fransisco you’ll have to wait to see those I’m sure.

As well as all the travel pictures and the wedding I did on Friday.

So we got up at the point and there were a whole slew of photographers taking pictures… everyone had a tripod and one of the guys asked what I was shooting at. 1/13th at 1.4 and he wondered where my tripod was… um yeah my tripod were the two flashes sitting on the posts.

In fact to exagerate the point I litterally shook and moved my camera As I took the pictures.

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Like a Rockstar

Posted by ScottJarvie at 23 April 2010

Category: Tips For Photographers

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No matter how busy and bogged down, no matter how neglected or sad, no matter when things don’t turn out like hoped, no matter whether I haven’t been out side in days or I don’t see friends for a while, no matter if I’m hungry or tired, no matter if people cancel on me and I feel that my life becomes one demensional…

These things don’t come into play when I have a camera in my hand and I’m making people smile.
When I’m instilling confidence and bringing out the best in them.

Those other things disapear when I’m taking pictures and it all clicks (like so often it does) … the other cares are long away.

When they’re loving it and I’m loving it and I can show them a few pictures and tell them there are one hundred (or 4) just like it and they are happy… well I feel like a rockstar.

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Composite Lighting Class

Posted by scott at 23 February 2010

Category: JarvieU Event

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This Friday night we’ll have a special guest presentation at JarvieU

The theme is “Composite Lighting”

Here’s a recent Example

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New Opportunities at JarvieDigital

Posted by scott at 11 August 2009

Category: news

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I am looking for Interns, possibly a Personal Assistant, and web programmers.
See more info in the full blog post below.

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Building a website

Posted by scott at 22 July 2009

Category: Tips For Photographers, news

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BLOG vs WEBSITE

I love this blog and I have a lot of fun showing off my new pictures and sharing tips to a whole lot of photographers.

But when a client calls they’ve never said… oh I loved your blog so much I want to hire you.
They do say that about my webiste

But then they continue to say they spent a long time checking out all the stuff on the blog.
I can tell it’s there on the blog they got to know my personality and what I’m like which helped seal the deal.

They often comment on how they liked my personality… I ask how do they know… usually they percieve it from, not only my writing but coming from the pictures as well.

I meant my present website to be for weddings only… But I also have plans to start making waves in the Family Lifestyle photography world.
It would be really good for me and is right down my alley.
So I need another website.

HOW TO MAKE WEBSITE

well don’t plan on making it yourself.
Takes way to much time and isn’t worth it.
Unless you’re loaded with money don’t hire someone either.

There are faster better options, that can get you up and running with a professional style website with tons of bells and whistles in a matter of 1-3 days.
The hardest thing you’ll do is picking… picking the site style and picking the pictures to go on it.

It’s impossible to have a website programmed for as cheap as the template websites offer.

And among the best of them is bludomain.com

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Create or Capture

Posted by scott at 22 June 2009

Category: Tips For Photographers

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NOT ME

I admire those who create an idea in their mind, lay it out and make it happen.

This being said… That’s not me.

I show up to a shoot, hang out, try to make the subjects happy and in a good mood and figure out what is going to work for them.

I think a major part of this is that 99% of my subjects are not models… they are who they are and they come to me to get pictures of who they are.

Working with the light as it happens

Also it seems to work for me because I usually try brand new spots and random times of the day and have no idea what the lighting is going to be. So If i see the lighting is bad I avoid that shot and if it is awesome I do a shot I might not have tried before.

I might as well stick to what I’m good at… and in most cases that means bringing out the best of who people are. At least that’s the compliment I usually enjoy the most when people say it.

Wouldn’t mind, at all

On the other side, I’d love to have the ability to set things up and create like many other photographers out there… if nothing else just to have that as another weapon in my arsenal.

How I roll

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Accomplishing my goals… 40!!

Posted by scott at 16 June 2009

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Last year I made a goal of weddings and i hit it and did a few extra.

This year I upped the goal by 15 to 40 weddings.

Happy to announce

I am very happy to announce that I went to the mailbox a minute ago… and saw I had complete confirmation on booking wedding #40

Commence balloon drop and other types of fanfare!!

Might I add the strange part that only 1 wedding is booked for after august 22nd

Yes Utah is a bit crazy with bookings… but I did go to 10 different states to do weddings.

Don’t try this at home! haha

I know many of you are photographers

And if you do try to do that many… have assistants, or at least don’t have a family or another job and expect consistent 12-15hr days.

Plan for future

Well while i’m young single 40!! and up to the task It’s all good.

But I have plans to slow things down and do a more manageble amount of weddings… in part to have a bit more of a life, not get burned out and to be able to work on other projects.

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La Caille Photo Shoot

Posted by scott at 20 April 2009

Category: ! Favorite Posts, Bridal Pictures, Formals (Pre-wedding Portraits)

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Full Gallery Here

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Best Photographer Laptop?

Posted by scott at 31 March 2009

Category: Photography Questions, Tips For Photographers

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Since this has become a very popular post I’ll re-edit and say how things are 8 months later

(I also wrote a follow up post a while back here SEE UPDATE HERE)

Use A DeskTop if you can

First I must say that if I were you I’d stick with a desktop to edit pictures.
Much much less expensive,
Much more expandable,
You can get 2-3 monitors on it no problem
No hassle for adding extra hard drives.
You are forced to work at a desk… which can be good.
And you won’t ever feel tempted to waste your time using something other than a mouse (or even better a tablet)
And you’ll most likely be using a good sized monitor (23″ and up)

Looking for a kickbutt photography editing laptop.

I’ll be gone a lot this summer on wedding assignments.
For instance in may I’ll be gone a week to alaska and I’ll need to edit while there.
I’ll also be gone later that month on a trip that will include weddings in Arizona and NYC

I need to keep on top of my editing and my old single core laptop from a while back won’t cut it.

So I need a good laptop that will substitute nicely.

I suppose I’m looking for:

  • Fast processor
  • Lots of Memory
  • big Screen – at least lots of resolution
  • good battery life for the airplanes
Tell me if there is anything else I’m missing.
So I’m even willing to go to Mac
Technologizer.com did a similar review

Base System

I will compare the prices based on system that has more or less the following:
They all have 17″

  • 2.93 processor
  • 64bit operating system
  • 4GB ram 1066 ddr3 / And also showing 8GB
  • 320GB HD

(Please note that prices have gone down since i wrote this in march)

Macbook Pro 17
= $3149
8GB ram = $4199
QuadCore = NA
Dell 17″
= $3875
8GB ram = $4915
QuadCore = 5715
Lenovo w700ds
3.06 processor
dual HDs in raid 320GB 5400rpm
Built in wacom tablet
=$3859
8GB = $4919
Quad Core 2.5 = 5319
Sony vaio AW series
18.4 screen
= $2798
8GB = $3298
Quad = NA
HP HDX18t
18.4″
2.8 processor
$1989
8GB = $2389
Quad Core 2.5 = 2989
Other things to note:
Obviously some of them have lots of toys and tricks that I didn’t mention, which accounts for some of the price difference.
But the question is… why is the HP so cheap in comparison?
And only a couple of them assured me that it was truly 1920 resolution.
And what other toys are necessary to compare that I overlooked.
Please weigh-in in what you think.

SEE UPDATE HERE

See that I ended up getting a MacBookPro – I decided that the price difference wasn’t as much as I expected or that usually exists between PC and Mac

I have used it as I stated for several of my trips. It’s been durable, small enough for my camera bags (that allow laptops)

I haven’t used it a ton for editing because i’ve gotten so used to the speeds of my desktop which this doesn’t even compare.
And now i’ve gotten used to my 30″ monitor and 17″ doesn’t make me feel confident I’m making the best editing decisions.

If I were to do it again I would. There’s a lot to be said about the small form factor for traveling and the long battery life.

If I were to buy a main computer – i’d still be putting together a top of the line PC.

It appears that for actual editing and processing (speeds or quality) that there is no advantage in Mac (that I’ve ever hear(… I just happened to like the computer.

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3 Weddings > One Day

Posted by scott at 26 March 2009

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The question was posed on how I’m gonna photograph 3 weddings in one day.

Crazy Coincidence

First off it’s all about fate. It’s crazy how it all worked out.

All three inquiries were for SLC LDS Temple.

I don’t charge per hour… I charge for the day and give the couple the full reign of deciding what’s going on that day. Which makes it even more uncommon for me to do 3 weddings in one day.

Speaking of coincidences

I did a photoshoot monday, tuesday and wednesday this week so far… and each has been an engagement shoot.
It just so happens that they were each for the three weddings I’m doing on the same day in May. 

I will post pictures soon.

First Wedding 

Well the primary wedding that booked me first isn’t getting married at the temple until about noon. So that’s when i need to be there then then have a reception that night in Alpine.

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Another Fun Concert

Posted by scott at 21 March 2009

Category: concert photography

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BENTON PAUL

see all 300 pictures of concert here

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Now Hiring! (Provo Utah)

Posted by scott at 16 March 2009

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I am looking for a part time employee.    
(Update: applications are no longer being taken, the response has been phenomanal)
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Everyone needs to get RICH in their life.

Posted by scott at 20 February 2009

Category: reviews

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This is partly a response to another blog post

Via the other blog we learned that one type of person we need

The points were these:
- Find someone that shares your passion
- Find someone nice that is fun to be around
- Find someone that will be a really good friend to you.

But there are other types of people we need in our life.
We need a Rich Legg

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Spare a moment for URL introductions:

http://www.leggnet.com – Blog

Twitter

Facebook

He desperately needs more facebook friends… so don’t forget to add him! He’ll cry if you don’t :(

He’s a stock photographer so his portfolio of photography can be found there
He’s one of the top stock photographers in the country.

And he loves to teach and give back.

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What kind of person do we need?

  • We need someone who believes in us.
  • Beyond that, who believes in us so much they’ll tell everyone.
  • They’ll boost our ego (… or confidence is a better way of saying it.)
  • Someone who sits at the cool kids table and in front of the whole school invites you to come on over… and makes you feel like you’re now one of the cool kids.
  • Who makes your job easier because they’ve taken it upon themselves to help you.
    Whether it be teaching or being your best advertiser.
  • All in all we need someone who appreciates us.

-Also-

  • We need a person that will play around and joke with you but that you know that when the joking is done it’s nothing but a real solid friendship and caring.
  • Someone who does something in complete and opposite style… but you can both really appreciate what the other person does.
  • Someone you can bounce ideas off of.

And if you know Rich… then you know that even if he jokes around and plays with people… that he really is a great person.
And he does these things and more.

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Look how he’s being all tough… like he’ll beat up anyone who messes with his friend!
Stands behind you and believes in you… that’s what we all need!

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Family Portraits Suck… for photographers.

Posted by scott at 26 July 2008

Category: Family Photography, news

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I’m not to into taking family portraits…
There’s a lot of stressing out going on in portraits.

Feeding Each other STRESS

Parents get stressed because they want things to go perfectly.
When kids get grumpy or distracted… the parents start to freak.
Which in turn makes the kids freak out more… which in turn…
I’m sure you get the picture.

Not “Good” Money

Besides family pictures aren’t really good money (comparatively)

It’s my opinion that the price structure for family pictures was based on buying prints.
This mindset of wanting mainly prints is largely disappearing for most families.

Prints aren’t as “big” as photographers would like

Heck I personally would rather have the disc than a print on my wall… specially since I move more often and I use blogs, websites and facebook mostly and I can print stuff up myself just fine.

So people don’t want as many prints but the sitting fee for portraits has largely stayed the same.
Then there’s the people who think that because a CD costs $1 (which it doesn’t more like .15 cents) that charging them $100 for a CD is next to highway robbery.

Personally I don’t like being in charge of printing… I want to be paid for what I do (photograph) I don’t want to push products (like prints, albums etc)

I understand that the market and the abundance of new photographers will push prices down for photographers as some raise their prices (like I do all the time)

Not For me

All I’m saying is Traditional Family Picture sessions are not worth it for me.

I put up with boring weddings because they’re a lot of money and they’re very important.

Go to a studio for the traditional Shots

But i think if people are looking for good prices for family pictures they should go to studios, that’s their thing.

The Exception

That being said I have actually had a couple of families that were all right and enjoyable experiences
And in down times I’m sure I’d say yes because the money is nice… I’m just saying I don’t like it much.
But I like a “real” job…. way way less!

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Sorry Charlie

Posted by scott at 5 July 2008

Category: news

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I’ve been editing non-stop this week and getting a lot of jobs done.
But I’ve only been releasing full password protected galleries.

That means I haven’t been posting them.

This is a good thing if I still need to edit your pictures… because I’ll be able to get to them faster.

For everyone else… stay tuned.

I’ll post some stuff on my 4th of july adventures.
Straight from the camera style. Because they’re way down the line in editing.

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