Rick Sammon at creativeLIVE Day 3

As usual, at the end of day three of a creativeLIVE workshop I'm too wiped out to write much. But still have photos to share from behind the scenes.

This time I'll start our with one of the last photos of the day in the studio. This is only a part of the full crew. Here we see students, camera operators, sound technicians, production assistants, chat hosts, Rick, Myself, Craig, Kenna, Susan, and the two people who really keep the whole thing together, Celeste the producer, and Nikko, who's job title is Nikko because he does so many things.

Today we got to take some photos, play some music, teach some concepts, talk to Catherine Hall, take more photos, and go out for dinner where Rick entertained us with magic tricks.

Rick Sammon posting to Google+

Mic-ing up the students

Adam being Adam

A new look for Jacob

Emily

Wonder what Sammonism is being discussed here

Adam explains the camera angles

Celeste trying to fly away

Butterfly lands on Kenna's hand

The Power Trio (see/hear us on YouTube)

Thanks to kaylyn for taking this group photo

Thanks to the remote trigger for taking this group photo

View from the ground during another group photo

Celeste signals us that we're all clear and off the air

Craig watching a magic trick

Celeste participates in a magic trick

Pick a card, any card...

Next up at creativeLIVE is Matthew Jordan Smith. I look forward to seeing you there! But before we leave for the night, one more photo of Rick after 3 days of non-stop action packed photography classes...

Rick Sammon workshop at creativeLIVE

Whew! We're two days into the Rick Sammon workshop at creativeLIVE. It has been a whirlwind of tips, tricks, and general photographic education.

Outside of Serious Pie in South Lake Union

 On day 1 we worked with small strobes in a variety of sets with two models. From an elegant rim light on black background to Little Red Ridinghood in the woods. In the middle of the day we did a call in session with wildlife photographer Juan Pons. And then we finished up the day/evening with a great dinner at Serious Pie (second time this week!).

Day 2 mixed continuous fluorescent lights (a Westcott Spiderlite TD6 kit), strobe, and window light. And I got a good amount of air time discussing various lighting topics with Rick and the students. Rick has really gone out of his way to include me in the class instead of being in the background. Who knows, this might lead to me doing some of my own classes on creativeLIVE. Let cL know if you want to see me present on something there.

Tomorrow I will try to post some photos of me as model, musician, assistant, photographer, general go-to guy on set. In the meantime, some photos from the first two days...

Rick Sammon talks to Juan Pons

Some of the items on the equipment cart

Behind the Live's Kenna and Susan

Getting the crane ready for some overhead shots

Introducing the Rick Sammons Custom Light
Modifier (patent pending).

Getting ready to start the show

The behind-the-scenes crew

Introducing the new FJ Westcott Apollo Orb

Got batteries

Who is our mystery guest?

Little Red Ridinghood

Chase Jarvis and Rick Sammon

Celeste and McKenzie

Rick enjoying interaction with his students

One more day to go! Watch us live on Sunday, October 23 from 9am to 4pm Pacific time on creativeLIVE and/or purchase the class to watch at any time.

creativeLIVE with Rick Sammon

I've spent most of the past two days at the creativeLIVE studios here in Seattle doing prep work with photographer Rick Sammon for his 3-day FREE workshop this weekend.

The view on Camera 1

Above we see Rick talking to BehindTheLive's Susan Roderick in preparation for the workshop. Below he talks to Kenna Klosterman about his favorite business books (watch the workshop to get the titles). And then we finished the day with some photos to use on the creativeLIVE web site. Speaking of which, check out the new discussion forum on the site. And watch the video that was being filmed when I took some of these photos, I might show up in there at around the 5 minute mark, and again at around 25 minutes in...

Rick loves to teach

More to come as the weekend progresses. See you online!

John