“At the end of the day, your multimedia project is only as good as your story,” Ian Shive told me today during a fantastic interview. Both insightful and contagiously enthusiastic regarding the evolving possibilities in multimedia for still photographers, Shive is a 31-year-old nature photographer who turned pro only a few years ago — from a background in marketing major Hollywood motion pictures. Driven and focused, Shive is having tremendous success, recently publishing “The National Parks: Our American Landscape” and having launched Wild Collective, a full-service multimedia production company with partner, Russell Chadwick.
Shive’s portfolio is a strong, lush statement that speaks to his capacity to create top-notch nature imagery. However, to get a much better sense of who Shive is — and to gain inspiration for possibilities in leveraging still images in multimedia projects — watch “Wild Exposure with Ian Shive – Episode One – The Southwest.”
Created with Chadwick, the original idea behind “Wild Exposure” was to create a multimedia promo piece for “Our American Landscape.” The thing is, returning from their 28-day, 7,500-mile National Parks road trip, Shive says the team realized that Chadwick “had shot 36 hours of the most stunning footage you have ever seen in HD.” What to do?