Thur FREE to Watch (starts 12pm ET): “Speedlight Photography Basics” and more

The new round of free-to-watch classes at CreativeLIVE begin at 12pm eastern every day. According to the Creative LIVE ON-AIR schedule, among the classes streaming today (Thur 1/11/18) is “Speedlight Photography Basics” and “File Formats Explained”. It looks like the “Alternative Processing” class is also continuing among others…

Coming in the next few days:

+ JAN-12: “how to shoot with your first flash”
+ JAN-13: “Composition Basics”
+ JAN-14: “Fundamentals for Great Prints”
+ JAN-15: “Posing 101” and “Writing Week”
+ JAN-16: “Location, Posing, Execution”
+ JAN-17: “Portrait Photography”
+ JAN-18: “Capturing Authentic Portraits”
+ JAN-19: “Engagement Photography”
+ JAN-20: “Wedding Photography Bootcamp”
+ JAN-21: “Think like a 10K Photographer”
+ JAN-22: “Fundamentals of Photography 2018” (WORLD PREMIERE)
+ JAN-22: “Portrait Photography Fundamentals”
+ JAN-23: “Camera Buyers Guide”
+ JAN-30: “Color and Composition”
+ and many more, see them all at the Creative LIVE ON-AIR schedule

Wedn FREE to Watch (starts 12pm ET): “Understanding Light”, “Color Fundamentals”, Etc

The new round of free-to-watch classes at CreativeLIVE begin at 12pm eastern every day. According to the CREATIVELIVE ON-AIR schedule, among the classes streaming today (Wedn 1/10/18) is “Understanding Light” with Mark Wallace, and “Color Fundamentals” with Mary Jane Begin, and the Chase Jarvis Show LIVE.

Coming in the next few days:

+ JAN-11: “Speedlight Photography Basics” and “File Formats”
+ JAN-12: “how to shoot with your first flash”
+ JAN-13: “Composition Basics”
+ JAN-14: “Fundamentals for Great Prints”
+ JAN-15: “Posing 101” and “Writing Week”
+ and many more, see them all at the CREATIVELIVE ON-AIR schedule

Starts 12pm ET Today and Tuesday (FREE to Watch): “Introduction to Alternative Processing in Photography”

Starting at 12pm ET today is a class streaming today and on Tuesday at CreativeLIVE by Daniel Gregory, running 12pm to 7pm eastern time on each day, “Introduction to Alternative Processing in Photography”. A total of 39 lessons are included, and you can see the list under the LESSONS sub-tab over there.

For more upcoming classes for today and the next few weeks, check their CreativeLIVE ON-AIR schedule page…

Starts Mon 4pm ET (FREE): Getting the Most Out of Lightroom

Starting at 4pm ET today (Monday 1/8/18), B&H Photo is hosting / live-streaming a two hour talk by Eric Wessman on “Getting the Most Out of Lightroom”. This is free to watch. It will be streaming live from the B&H Event Space in NY.

Saturday: FREE Food Photography streaming class

A two in one special! You can get your foodie/cooking fix and your photography fix in one. Food Photography! That’s the headliner of today’s free-to-watch photography classes at the CreativeLIVE ON-AIR SCHEDULE

Other classes:
+ “Fundamentals of Photography 2016” (this continues until Sunday)
+ and other creative classes

Starts Friday 12pm ET: “Portrait Photography Bootcamp” and more FREE to Watch Photography Classes

Friday is here and another round of free streams begins at 12pm eastern today at the CreativeLIVE ON-AIR SCHEDULE as follows:

+ “Portrait Photography Bootcamp”
+ “Basics of Adobe CC”
+ “Fundamentals of Photography 2016” (this continues until Sunday)
+ and more, see them all at the Creative LIVE ON-AIR schedule

Thursday FREE to Watch: Fine Art Photography, Choosing Right Lens, Pho Fundamentals, Etc

Thursday is here and if you are looking for something more educational to watch, among the classes streaming for FREE at the Creative LIVE ON-AIR schedule you can find:

+ “Fine Art Photography: The Complete Guide”
+ “Choosing the Right Lens” repeat of yesterday’s world premiere
+ “Fundamentals of Photography 2016” (this continues until Sunday)
+ and more, see them all at the Creative LIVE ON-AIR schedule

FREE to Watch TODAY: Lightroom CC Photo Editing and Fundamentals of Pho

Today’s FREE-to-WATCH streaming schedule at CreativeLIVE ON-AIR includes a couple of interesting classes:

+ Adobe Lightroom CC Photo Editing: The Complete Guide with Ben Willmore

+ the Fundamentals of Photography 2016 classes

Meanwhile starting on Wednesday at 12pm ET, they will have the world premiere (recording LIVE) of the “Choosing the Right Lens” class with John Greengo. You can find them all at the CreativeLIVE ON-AIR page. While there, they are free to watch, day or night, as much or as little as you want.

Starts 12pm ET: Photoshop Week 2017 Re-Broadcast (FREE to Watch)

It’s a cold winter weekend, if you don’t want to brave the elements and go outside, fire up the coffee machine or the tea kettle, and dive into the FREE to Watch re-broadcast of the Photoshop Week 2017 at CreativeLIVE. The rebroadcast begins on Saturday at 12pm eastern and continues for three days. All 42 classes will stream for FREE during this window. If you like enough of them well enough, they have a promotional bundle where you can buy them all for $299.

But that’s not all. A number of other non-Photoshop classes are also streaming today for FREE at the CreativeLIVE ON-AIR page, including a Becoming a Better Speaker (today) and an Intro to Calligraphy (Sunday). Calligraphy can give you more macro shot test subjects 😉

FREE to Watch NOW: Joe McNally’s Life in Photography

The headliner of the current CretiveLIVE ON-AIR schedule, the free to watch online classes during their promotional free-streaming window, is a class by the one and only Joe McNally, “Lighting, Logistics, and Strategies for a Life in Photography”.

FREE 8×10″ Print with Walgreens Photo coupon

It’s the holiday spirit at Walgreens Photo, for a limited time, coupon code GIFT2U gets you a free 8×10 inch photo print with free store pickup. Delivery to an address of your choice is not free unless they have free shipping promotions. This is a limited time offer.

Starts 12pm ET: FREE to Watch: “Lightroom Classic CC for the Professional Photographer” CreativeLIVE Class

Starting at 12pm ET today (Friday 12/22/17) is a free re-airing for all to watch of the CreativeLIVE class Lightroom Classic CC for the Professional Photographer with Jared Platt. If you can’t wait for the stream to begin, look under the “Lessons” section of the class, and lesson #4 is available to stream right away on its own.

For more “free to stream” classes check their latest CreativeLIVE ON-AIR Schedule, a good way to watch some creatives-orientated videos for free.

Starts 12pm ET FREE to Watch: Photoshop CC Brushes Class (World Premiere)

A world premiere begins at 12pm eastern today at the Creative LIVE ON-AIR, it is the “Working with Brushes in Photoshop CC” online class by Lisa Carney. The class is free to watch during this promotional ON-AIR streaming.

AMONG the UPCOMING CLASSES
+ Dec 13: Create an Online Portfolio (World Premiere)
+ Dec 14: Photography Starter Kit for Beginners
+ Dec 15: Download, Organize and Share Your Photos
+ Dec 16: Beyond DSLR Basics: Composition & Lighting
+ Dec 17: Beginner Photo Retouching
+ and so on

Meanwhile their 50% off Green Monday sale has morphed into an up to 50% off sale on their classes.

LIVE NOW: Nikon D850 World Premiere Online Class

I knew there was something I forgot! Today is the world premiere of the Nikon D850 Fast Start class at Creative LIVE ON-AIR. After the recording ends in the afternoon, the stream will be repeating overnight until typically 12pm ET tomorrow morning. Or longer if the stream will rebroadcast on Thursday as well.

The DSLR itself continues to be not in-stock. For the latest updates on that, check the Stock Status Tracker. If there are any other new cameras or lenses you’d like to see there, please leave a comment or use the online contact form.

(ENDED) Thursday Free to Watch: Nikon D850 Class at CL

This promotional free-stream ended… It made its world premiere yesterday, but this class is now in reruns, FREE to Watch until Friday morning. “This” refers to the Nikon D850 Fast Start class by John Greego at Creative Live (CL).

For all other free-running classes, check their Creative LIVE ON-AIR, a way to stream video and learn at the same time! Instead of un-learn by watching TV 🙂

Starts 12pm ET (Free to Watch): Portrait Photography Fundamentals

One of the Tuesday FREE to Watch video-streaming classes at CreativeLIVE On-Air is “Portrait Photography Fundamentals” by Scott Robert Lim. All the classes on that page are free to watch during their scheduled “On-Air” dates. Of potential interest:

+ Dec 6: “Nikon D850 Fast Start” (World Premiere!)
+ Dec 7: Photoshop CC and Illustrator CC world premieres
+ Dec 8: Authentic Children Portraits
+ Dec 12: Brushes in Photoshop CC (world premiere)
+ Dec 13: Create an Online Portfolio (world premiere)
+ Dec 16: Beyond DSLR Basics: Composition & Lighting
+ Dec 16: Craft Photography Fundamentals
+ Dec 19: Foundations of Photoshop CC
+ Jan 3: Choosing the Right Lens (world premiere)

Starts 12pm ET (Free to Watch): Intro to B&W Film Photography

If you want to learn about black and white film photography or want to rekindle the flame, one of the Friday FREE to Watch video-streaming classes at CreativeLIVE On-Air is “Introduction to Black and White Film Photography” by Daniel Gregory. All the classes on that page are free to watch during their scheduled “On-Air” dates. Of potential interest:

+ December 2: “High Speed Photography: Capturing Motion”
+ December 3: “Lightweight Location Lighting”
+ December 4: “Portrait Photography Fundamentals” (World Premiere!)
+ December 6: “Nikon D850 Fast Start” (World Premiere!)

Starts Wedn 12pm ET (FREE Class): Camera Buying Guide

If you missed it yesterday, fear not! According to the Creative LIVE ON-AIR schedule, starting at 12pm ET today (Wedn 12/22/17), there will be rebroadcast of the Camera Buyer’s Guide by John Greego that premiered/recorded yesterday. Rebroadcasts typically rerun over and over until around 12pm ET of the next day, so you have multiple chances in the next 24 hours to catch it.

Starts Tuesday 12pm ET (FREE to Watch Online Class): Camera Buying Guide [World Premiere]

If you want to escape the Black Friday madness productively, we have an educational alternative for you! The Creative LIVE ON-AIR schedule where you will find a variety of photography and creative classes streaming for FREE!

ON-AIR free-streaming classes start at 12pm ET, and among today’s classes is the world premiere (recording LIVE) of a brand new class, Camera Buyer’s Guide by John Greego!

Other potentially interesting classes
+ November 24: Tabletop photography
+ November 26: One Light Wonder
+ November 27: Another Look with Art Wolf
+ November 28: Intro to Large Format Photography
+ December 6: Nikon D850 Fast Start
+ and many more

Starts Monday 12pm ET (FREE to Watch Online Class): Fine Art Landscape and Travel Photography

If you want to escape the Black Friday madness productively, we have an educational alternative for you! The Creative LIVE ON-AIR schedule where you will find a variety of photography and creative classes streaming for FREE!

ON-AIR free-streaming classes start at 12pm ET, and among today’s classes is the “Fine Art Landscape and Travel Photography” by Peter Eastway and Tony Hewitt. If you want a sneak peek, go under “Class Materials” and there you will find the Transcripts of all 48 lessons.

Meanwhile on Tuesday 11/21/17 at 12pm ET there will be the world premiere (recording LIVE) of a brand new class, Camera Buyer’s Guide by John Greego!

Other potentially interesting classes
+ November 24: Tabletop photography
+ November 26: One Light Wonder
+ November 27: Another Look with Art Wolf
+ November 28: Intro to Large Format Photography
+ December 6: Nikon D850 Fast Start
+ and many more

Wednesday 12pm ET FREE to Watch: “Authentic Children Portraits” (World Premiere) and “Adobe Photoshop 101” online classes

Wednesday is here and according to the CreativeLIVE On-AIR Schedule, today we have the world premiere (recording LIVE today) of another brand new photography class by Tamara Lackey, Capturing Authentic Children Portraits. This records in front of a live studio audience in Seattle.

As usual, the class starts at 12pm ET today (Wednesday 11/8/17) and it is free to watch during this promotional FREE-to-Watch window. If you like it well enough to want to watch again, they have a pre-order sale for $55.

Also starting at 12pm ET today, it is a FREE to watch rerun of Ben Willmore’s Adobe Photoshop 101. This consists of 48 lessons. If you can’t wait for the free-to-watch stream to begin, locate the “Class Materials” sub-tab, and page down. Lesson #6 (Contrast and Color) is FREE to download in SD or HD (no login or sign-up needed to download it).

And if you are on the Nikon D850 Hype Train, SAVE THE DATE! December 6 is when CreativeLIVE will have the live recording (world premiere) of their Nikon D850 Fast Start class with John Greego. Fear not, I will post more reminders as we get close to that. The pre-order price for the class is $39.

Monday FREE to Watch (World Premiere at 12pm ET): Building Your Family Portrait Business Online Class with Tamara Lackey

According to the CreativeLIVE On-AIR Schedule, today we have the world premiere (recording LIVE today) of a brand new photography class by Tamara Lackey, Building Your Family Portrait Business starting at 12pm ET today (Monday 11/6/17). You can watch for FREE during this promotional window until Tuesday PM [it will probably rerun through the night, it’s not a 24×7 live class].

A bit of a disambiguation on the title, it is “Family-Portrait Business”, not “Family Portrait-Business”. It teaches creating a business taking portraits of families, not creating a family business dealing in portraits 🙂

Coming up in the next few days:
+ Wednesday: “Capturing Authentic Children Portraits” with Tamara Lackey (LIVE)
+ Wednesday: “Adobe Photoshop 101” by Ben Willmore
+ Friday: “Family Group Posing” (LIVE)
+ November 13: “Posing 101: Essentials” by Lindsay Adler
+ November 14: “Studio Lighting Basics”
+ November 16: “Practical Adobe Photoshop Basics” (LIVE)
+ December 4: “Portrait Photography Fundamentals” (LIVE)
+ no “Fast Start” camera classes scheduled at the moment

“LIVE”, as designated with a yellow tag in the On-AIR Schedule listings indicates that a class is recorded LIVE, it is the world premiere. Classes without the LIVE indicator are rebroadcasts/reruns but still free to watch during the dates shown in the On-Air schedule.

Sunday: FREE to Watch: Photo Week 2017 reruns continue

12pm eastern (9am pacific) is the start of a new streaming day at Creative LIVE and according to their On-AIR Schedule, continuing today is a FREE to watch repeat of the Photo Week 2017 which has two parallel channels of online classes. These repeat throughout the night. This will continue until November 6 (Monday).

Coming up in the next few days:
+ Wednesday: “Adobe Photoshop 101” by Ben Willmore
+ Friday: “Family Group Posing” (LIVE)
+ November 13: “Posing 101: Essentials” by Lindsay Adler
+ November 14: “Studio Lighting Basics”
+ November 16: “Practical Adobe Photoshop Basics” (LIVE)
+ December 4: “Portrait Photography Fundamentals” (LIVE)

“LIVE”, as designated with a yellow tag in the On-AIR Schedule listings indicates that a class is recorded LIVE, it is the world premiere. Classes without the LIVE indicator are rebroadcasts/reruns but still free to watch during the dates shown in the On-Air schedule.

Saturday FREE to Watch: Adobe Lightroom CC Photo Editing: The Complete Guide with Ben Willmore

According to the latest On-AIR Schedule at CreativeLIVE, starting at 12pm eastern on Saturday, they will have a FREE to Watch re-airing of the Ben Willmore class Adobe Lightroom CC Photo Editing: The Complete Guide. The class will be free to watch during this promotional re-airing. If you like it well enough to want to watch it later again and again, you can purchase it for $149 during this promotional window.

But that’s not all. You can also download for FREE the first lesson. Click on the “Class Materials” sub-tab and then page further down and down until you get to the “Video Downloads” section. You will find the first lesson (56 minutes long) available for download as an SD (95MB) or HD video (354MB).

If you are not familiar with their website, here’s a screenshot:

But if you are not interested in Lightroom, fear not! Continuing today is a FREE to watch repeat of the Photo Week 2017 which has two parallel channels of online classes. These repeat throughout the night. This will continue until November 6 (Monday).

Friday FREE to Watch: Photo Week 2017 reruns continue

12pm eastern (9am pacific) is the start of a new streaming day at Creative LIVE and according to their On-AIR Schedule, continuing today is a FREE to watch repeat of the Photo Week 2017 which has two parallel channels of online classes. These repeat throughout the night. This will continue until November 6 (Monday).

Thursday FREE to Watch: Nikon D7500 Fast Start Class, Photo Week 2017 reruns continue

Per the On-AIR Schedule at Creative LIVE, FREE to watch, re-running today, until 12pm ET on Friday will be the Nikon D7500 Fast Start Class with John Greego. Since this is a re-run, it will repeat throughout the night until its expiration Friday AM.

Continuing until November 6 is a free to watch repeat of the Photo Week 2017 which has two parallel channels of online classes. These repeat throughout the night.

FREE to Watch: Photo Week 2017 re-airing at Creative LIVE

The Photo Week 2017 collection of 40 classes, five keynotes and five critique sessions is now re-airing FREE to watch at Creative LIVE until November 6 in 2017. Since this is a rebroadcast, it will loop through throughout the day. A new day should begin at 12pm ET every day.

If you like what you see, they have a promotional bundle for $200 that gets you all 40 classes, five critiques and five keynotes.

For all the classes currently airing for FREE, and planned to air for FREE in the next few days, check their ON-AIR Schedule.

Free 24pk single-use batteries with Harbor Freight coupon

Harbor Freight has coupons in many places these days, including printed glossy magazines. This coupon I spotted in the Valpak envelope coupons that come with the weekly grocery ads in the mailbox. The coupon gets you a FREE 24-pack of single use batteries, AA or AAA, your choice. You can walk into their store and get these for free after coupon. Not sure if you have to pay sales tax. Coupon expires 3/1/18.

Starts 12pm ET Today: FREE to Watch Nikon D7500 Fast Start Online Class World Premiere [also: Canon 6D II rerun]

We have another “world premiere”, a new class recording LIVE today, starting at 12pm eastern (Tuesday 10/31/17), you can watch LIVE and for FREE, with John Greengo, it is the Nikon D7500 Fast Start class. This is the latest Nikon APS-C model, and it is in-stock and shipping [see Stock Status Tracker].

But that’s not all! If you missed yesterday’s Canon EOS 6D Mark II Fast Start class, it will be re-running today for FREE starting at 12pm ET.

You can find future classes scheduled to stream for FREE at the Creative LIVE On-Air Schedule. Classes with that yellow LIVE tag means they are recording for the first time on that date, a world premiere. Classes without that tag means they are rebroadcasts. The classes you see on that schedule are free to watch on the days they are listed under.

PS: the correct name of these classes is “Fast Start” but I often call them “Fast Track”. I cannot easily unwire my brain, so this is a known error 🙂

$15 photography classes at Udemy [also: some FREE] {updated}

UPDATE 11/1/17: the price is now $15 instead of $12 per class…

Good until tonight (Tuesday 10/31/17), Udemy has a $12 online class sale which includes a number of photography classes. There is no coupon code to enter, the sale is factored into their website. Use the search box over there to search for topics of interest, eg “photography” or “lightroom” or anything else you are interested in.

Each class’s individual listing has a box below the price that lists the length of the class along with the terms and access. Udemy classes can be viewed with a desktop web browser, a mobile web browser, iOS and Google Play apps, along with Apple TV (only watch/listen; the other features don’t work on Apple TV).

If you are not familiar with them, you can get a feel of the website, the apps and how the courses work by getting some of the free courses. This includes an 8-hour “Learn Photoshop from Scratch” class by Eduonix Learning Solutions available for FREE.

Also FREE is a 4.5-hour “Photoshop In-Depth: Master all of Photoshop’s Tools Easily” online class by Chad Neuman, Ph.D.