If you like free-streaming content and you have the time-flexibility to be able to watch them [some of those classes are looooong], here’s the schedule for the next few days of the free-to-watch classes at Creative LIVE ON-AIR:

• Monday: Creative Portraits with Props, Creating your own stamps, YouTube ads, etc
• Tuesday: LIVE LAUNCH: Black Women Photographers, Color Theory for Photographers, Illustrator, Stamping, etc
• Wednesday: Sony a7 III Fast Start (over 5 hours long) with John Greengo, Facebook, Mixing Music, etc
• Thursday: LIVE: Capturing History and Herigate; Posing 101 with Lindsay Adler, WordPress Themes, Snapchat, etc
• Friday: Composition Basics, Instagram, Interactive PDFs, etc
• Saturday: Black and White film photography, Linked IN (with bonus clipboard clips LOL), Graphics for the web and social media, etc
• Sunday: Photography 101 with SLR Lounge, social media plan, etc

As usual, each day’s free-streaming classes begin at 12pm eastern and end 24 hours later. Classes that are under 24 hours in length continue repeating immediately after their end during the 24 hour window. There are no “Netflix controls”, so you have to watch the classes sequentially, you can’t jump around or rewind…

If you prefer to spend exactly $0 but want to listen and watch and learn about photography and other related creative fields, CreativeLIVE continues with their ON-AIR free-streaming classes. These begin free-streaming at 12pm eastern each day and run for 24 hours. IF the class is under 24 hours, it begins re-running immediately until the 24 hours are done.

So here are some potentially interesting classes:

+ Sunday: Vision-Driven Photography with David DuChemin (12~ hours)

+ Monday: Storytelling with Mobile Photography, WordPress, etc

+ Tuesday: Choosing the Right Lens with John Greengo (4 hours and 17 minutes), Street Photography, Logic PRO, Doing Less, etc

+ Wednesday: Stock photography, Lightroom for scrapbooking, etc

+ Thursday: Nikon Lenses – the Complete Guide with John Greengo, live-recording of the weekly CL “We Are Photographers” podcast

+ Friday: Skin 101, for photographers, not for cosmetics 🙂

+ Saturday: getting started with HD-DSLR cinema with Vincent LaForet

+ Sunday: Experimental Portraiture with Jeremy Cowart

A new week is already underway, so the time is right to spotlight some of the potentially interesting free-streaming classes at Creative LIVE ON-AIR during the next few days. Remember, classes start at 12pm ET and run for 24 hours. Reruns begin immediately after each run ends, so if you add the durations, you will find all the subsequent air times…

+ Tuesday: “DSLR Film Making”, “Graphic Design Portfolio”, “Screen Printing”, Etc

+ Wednesday: “Color Theory for Photographers”, Digital Scrapbooking, Drawing, Mixing Master Class, Etc

+ Thursday: Headshots, Craft Photography, online business, etc

+ Friday: Shooting & Editing on a smartphone, mixed media, etc

+ Saturday: “Fundamentals of Great Prints”, Design, Etc

+ Sunday: music photography, sketching, teaching craft classes

+ Monday: “food photography” with Penny De Los Santos [fun class from the parts I watched the previous time it aired], on being an artist, scrapbooking, graphic design, etc

+ Tuesday: Diversity your photography, DJ fundamentals, etc
+ NOTE: “Total Focus” is NOT about photography and AF/MF systems 🙂

+ Wednesday: “Commercial Portraiture”, Logo Design, Music Theory, Etc

NOTE: when browsing the Creative LIVE website on a laptop/desktop, note that they are making single button “open in new window” hard which I personally find extremely irritating 🙂

It’s that time of the year once again, the start of the Grads & Dads season, and to celebrate that, the next few days at the CreativeLIVE ON-AIR are headlined photography-wise by high-school related photography classes. A plus if you are interested in this market segment, a minus if you are not interested…

If you are dabbling into video and want to learn video-editing using Adobe Premiere PRO CC (Cash Cow edition, OOOOOOOPS Creative Cloud edition), starting at 12pm eastern on Wednesday, as the headliner of the CreativeLIVE ON-AIR classes is a free stream of the Abba Shapiro class “Adobe Premiere Pro CC Complete Guide”. This runs for 18 hours and 2 minutes, so after the first full airing, it will re-start on Thursday at 6:02am ET but it will end mid-way at the daily cut-off point, Thursday at 11:50am ET…

Good until Saturday at 11:50am eastern, Creative LIVE will be live-streaming for FREE the “Fine Art Photography: The Complete Guide” with Brooke Shaden at Creative LIVE ON-AIR. Because the class is longer than 24 hours, the last couple of hours or so will not be live-streamed. Don’t worry though, it’s not a TV show, you can survive if you don’t watch the final two hours 🙂

We forgot about Dre printing photographs, that’s how the “From Capture to Print” class begins and the class attempts to make it easier and better for photographers to print, and this 8.5 hour class is FREE to stream for 24 hours starting on Sunday 5/3/20 at 12pm eastern at Creative LIVE ON-AIR.

Airtimes:
+ starts 12pm ET Sunday (full)
+ starts 8:34pm ET Sunday (full)
+ starts 5:08am ET Monday (partial)
+ streaming window closes 11:50am ET Monday (and every streaming day)

Five of the 34 chapters are available to stream for FREE at any time, so you can use those to get a feel for the class…

If you have nothing scheduled for the next 24 hours or so, the headliner of the Friday Creative LIVE ON-AIR classes is a 24+ hour long “Fundamentals of Photography” class with John Greengo, the guy who makes their “Fast Start” camera-guide classes. This is not just a photography-101, it covers beginners to advanced topics.

Greegon’s teaching style is even-keeled and matter-of-fact, I’ve watched four of the always-streaming teaser-chapters for this class. This starts on Friday at 12pm eastern and ends on Saturday at 11:45am ET. Since this class is just over 24 hours long, it will not repeat. It will not even finish 🙂

But wait, there’s more. On Saturday at 12pm ET there’s a 7.5 hour long “Photography 101” class free-streaming at CL, and this one is by SLR Lounge, a more beginner course as the name suggests, and a more stylized approach. Since it’s under 8 hours, it will repeat three times during the 24 hour window…

Two photography-related and relatively short classes are among those streaming for FREE on Thursday 4/30/20 at the CreativeLIVE ON-AiR. The free-streaming window is from 12pm eastern until 11:45am ET of the next day.

Of photographer interest is an 81-minute class on Color Theory for Photographers and a 2.5 hour class on various file formats. Since these are short classes, they will repeat multiple times during the 24 hour window. Since you can’t watch these Netflix-style (meaning you can start/stop and jump around the video), you have to calculate the various start times if you want to watch from the start.

So for the 81 minute class, the time math is like this:

+ first airing 12pm ET
+ second airing 1:21pm ET
+ third airing 2:42pm ET
+ fourth airing 4:03pm ET
+ and so forth

Good until Tuesday at 11:45am ET, you can stream for FREE the 15-hour class “Understanding Light” with Mark Wallace. The first airing of the class ends at 3am ET on Tuesday. That’s when the second airing of the class begins and it will terminate at 11:45am ET on Tuesday because that’s when the 24-hour free-streaming window closes…

UPDATE: speaking of CreativeLIVE, they have a sale on Videography classes with prices ranging from $19 to $29…

The headliner of the Sunday 4/12/20 FREE-to-Stream classes starting at 12pm eastern (9am pacific time) at CreaitveLIVE ON-AIR is a 15-hour class on Final Cut X PRO with Vanessa Joy and Rob Adams…

In the meantime, the Saturday headliner good until 12pm ET on Sunday is a near 4.5 hour class on Setting Up a home photography studio by John CorniCello…

If you are interested in food photography, real photography, not smartphone-food-bloggies, and available light photography at that, using real food, not props and such, using manual exposure for everything, starting on Thursday 4/9/20 at 12pm eastern at the Creative LIVE ON-AIR they will be streaming the “Food Photography” with photographer Penny De Los Santos.

If you can’t wait to get started, Lesson #4 is streaming for FREE all the time as part of the class’s promotional material. Lesson #4 is 43 minutes long and it is titled “Principles of Food Photography” and it will give you a very good idea whether you would be interested in watching the class in full…

NOTE: this is a 14-hour class, so it will only air once in full during the 24-hour streaming window. Its second airing will begin around 2am ET but there’s only 10 hours until the next rotation, so the second airing will be incomplete. If you like it well enough, it is on sale for $39.

PS: the photographer, Penny de los Santos has already co-authored a number of published print cookbooks…

UPDATE: another solid class will be offered on Thursday starting at 12pm ET, if you are interested in music mastering, there is a nine hour DIY Mastering class with Jesse Cannon [not Nikkon] 😉

Nikon has joined the parade of “free to stream” with a handful of classes and tutorials at the Nikon Online School. The options are a mix of Nikon gear (SB-5000 Speedlight, Z50 video content, DSLR getting started) and Photography (Fundamentals and Beyond Fundamentals, Children and Pets, Macro, Landscape, Making Music Videos).

Duration is manageable for today’s context-switching generation, classes range from 15 to 69 minutes each…

NOTE: you have to sign in to watch. Otherwise Nikon’s marketing department would run to the server room and pull the plug on the computers 😉

Streaming action, free to watch of course, Alpha Universe will be live-streaming starting at 12pm pacific (3pm eastern) on Monday 4/6/20 with Colby Brown on photography websites. The official title of the live stream is “The Anatomy of a Great Photography Website”…

Me on the other hand, I will be offering a parallel tutorial, “The Postmortem of a So-So Photography Website” 😉

The weekend is coming, and time for some great indoors adventures for those working Monday to Friday. So how about some free classes streaming? That’s right, it’s the Creative LIVE ON-AIR schedule for the next few days, starting with Friday 4/3/20, with classes starting streaming at 9am pacific and continuing for 24 hours…

Of potential interest (not a comprehensive list):

• Friday: “The Business of Photography”, “Social Media for Food Photography”, “Power your podcast with storytelling”
• Saturday: “How to write and publish an ebook”, “Concertina Collage books”, “how to improve your SEO”
• Sunday: “high volume senior photography business”, Illustrator CC, “fulfilled your creative purpose”
• Monday: “Experimental Portraiture”, Personal Branding, Etsy 101
• Tuesday: Mobile photography, branding
• Wedn: “Music Photography” with Todd Owyoung, Adobe InDesign, “Write a Story”
• Thursday: “Food photography”
• Friday: Family Photography, LinkedIn
• Saturday: home studio, languages
• Sunday: Final Cut Pro X, online store, design

An interest set of free-to-stream classes are scheduled, starting at 9am pacific time, for Sunday 3/29/20 at Creative LIVE ON-AIR. These continue repeating (depending on the length of the class obviously) for 24 hours…

OF potential interesT:

• advanced Photoshop layer tips (under 2 hours)
• color fundamentals (under 3 hours) {UPDATE: this is geared towards art/coloring/painting, not photography}
• sound design 101 (under 3 hours)
• screen printing

Given today’s durations, you can easily watch multiple classes even if you don’t have the whole 24 hour day available 🙂

PRO TIP: some classes have the first couple of lessons in a class available to stream for free at any time as a “class teaser/trailer”, so if there’s more than one class of interest, you can watch their intro chapters to see which one sounds more appetizing/interesting…

The Monday 3/23/30 rotation of free-to-stream classes starting at 12pm eastern time at CreativeLIVE On-AIR is headlined by the “Pets and People Photography” class by Vicki Tauper, 42 lessons running 13.5 hours. Given the #CoronaSituation2020, CL is mixing in a variety of other interest in their daily freebies, and today we have making your own tote bag (can also be useful for DIY promotional material for your home studio/photography freelancing), songwriting, watercolors and ganache (or is it gouache) paints and “What Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast” (spoiler alert: most of them have rich parents 😉

Looking at the new schedule here are some other potentially interesting classes coming this week:

• Tuesday: Animal Photography
• Wednesday: Business of Fashion Photography, Build a successful blog, become a working artist, songwriting class
• Thursday: Typography fundamentals, turn personal projects into a career
• Friday: Wedding Photojournalism, Color for designers
• Saturday: commercial fashion photography, color techniques for drawing, story telling techniques
• Sunday: advanced Photoshop layer tips, color fundamentals, sound design 101, screen printing
• Monday 3/30: Pricing, Pitching Clients
• Tuesday 3/31: Start-n-Grow your Photography business, Illustrator CC, Art Journaling, Command the Fees you Deserve

The headliner of the free-to-watch online streaming classes at Creative LIVE On-AIR on Sunday 3/22/20 is the “The Art of Wildlife Photography” class by Tom Mangelsen. It has 24 lessons and runs for 10.5 hours.

The classes stream for 24 hours, so you can watch whenever it is convenient. Of course some may find it more helpful if they watch a class from start to end. Every day the new classes start at 9am pacific time. In the meantime, the classes from the previous day continue to stream. So in a way, if you wake up early or are in the eastern time zone, you can watch yesterday’s and today’s classes in marathon binge 🙂

If the Corona-Virus kerfuffle has given you new unexpected downtime, one way to productively spend it (instead of watching the never-ending screeching drama of the national and local news) is to learn and read! Time to learn or rekindle a music instrument, make progress on your book shelf or digital bookshelf, or learn new skills. Or you can watch the various free-to-watch CreativeLIVE ON-AIR classes.

Each day has a list of about half a dozen classes you can watch for free during the 24 hour calendar day window. You can watch any and all, these repeat over and over during the 24 hour window. Better yet, there’s a schedule of the upcoming classes, so you can plan ahead if you see topics of interest. About half of them are photography-n-video related, the rest are general creative classes (business, marketing, etc), along with other creative endeavors (music, arts and crafts, etc)…

For example, the schedule below is for Wednesday 3/18/20…