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Starts Thursday 11am: LIVE Q&A YouTube demo of NEW Nikon Z 135mm f1.8 Plena lens

We have LENS LEARNINGS! On Thursday 9/28/23 at 11am ET, Adorama is hosting a YouTube live-stream launching the brand new Nikon Z 135mm f1.8 Plena lens, slated for an October 30 release, and a pre-order price of $2500.

The live-stream will feature Nikon’s very own Mark Cruz (Senior Marketing Manager) and hosted by Seth Miranda. This is a YouTube live-stream, so you will be able to ask your live questions in the YouTube live chat. A YouTube/Google account is needed to participate in the live chat, but everyone can watch it.

YouTube-embedded below as well for your convenience…

September 27, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials, nikon Tagged With: ,

Starts Wedn 12pm ET (FREE to Watch): Lighting Class

It is back on the free-streaming train! Starting on Wednesday at 12pm ET at the Creative LIVE ON-AIR you can watch the 8-hour and 22-minute “Lighting 301” class with Pye Jirsa and the SLR Lounge Experience. The Class Introduction is FREE to watch (aka “the Kindle sample”). The titles of the 26 lessons are a good indicator of what is covered.

Given the airtime, it will air twice a in full, and once partially – during the 24-hour-ish free-streaming window…

September 27, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials, lighting deals Tagged With:

Starts Tue 12pm ET (FREE to Watch): Lighting 301 class

Another long class is coming at the Creative LIVE ON-AIR free-streaming, starting at 12pm eastern on Tueday 9/12/23, you can watch the 8-hour and 22-minute class with Pye Jirsa and the SLR Lounge Experience “Lighting 301”. The Class Introduction is FREE to watch (aka “the Kindle sample”). The titles of the 26 lessons can also be a good indicator of the types of things that will get covered.

September 11, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

FREE 5-hour FStoppers Tutorial with NIK Collection 6 purchase

Good until 9/25/23, with purchase of the NIK Collection 6 from the DXO Online Shoppe, you get for FREE a 5-hour in-depth tutorial from The F/Stoppers. This is included auto-magically, no coupon code needed.

Because DRM-loving Adobe is-not/should-not-be the center of the digital imaging universe.

Speaking of bad tech practices, Google did a really nasty sneaky thing, they are adding / have-added an ad tracking system in the Chrome browser and they are calling it a Privacy feature. This on desktop and mobile versions of Chrome. Two of the three “features” are automatically turned ON! Then the tech companies complain when they get fined billions 🙂

A great write-up on this by (who else?) Ron Amadeo at Ars Technica, one of the last few remaining tech sites that are not just press release rewrites 🙂

September 11, 2023 Filed Under: apps and software Tagged With: ,

Starts Monday 12pm ET (FREE to Watch): “Creating a Fine Art Series” with Brooke Shaden

Mark your calendars. There are two potentially-interesting marathon classes at Creative LIVE ON-AiR with the free streams starting on Monday 9/11/23 at 12pm eastern time:

+ 8 hours and 37 minutes “Creating a Fine Art Series with photographer Brooke Shaden
+ it has 70 chapters which can give you a pretty pretty good idea on what will get covered in the class

+ 13 hour and 48 minutes “Become Fluent in Any Language” with opera singer (!!!) Gabriel Wyner
+ the first two lessons are “Kindle samples” so you can watch them ahead of time to see if it’s something you’d be interested in watching
+ CAUTION: side-effects of the class may include spontaneously speaking in tongues 😉

September 10, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Starts Sat 12pm ET (FREE to Watch): 17-hour Modern Women’s Portraiture Class

And on the FREE-to-Watch front, the Saturday headliner at the Creative LIVE On-AIR is a marathon super-class of 17 hours, “Modern Women’s Portraiture headlined by Sue Bryce!

Due to its length, this will only stream once, starting at 12pm eastern on 9/9/23!

As usual with CreativeLIVE, the free-to-stream classes are also put on sale ~ in case you like them, you can purchase them and watch them later as many times as you want. In this particular case, the sale price is $49. That’s just $2.88 per hour 🙂

September 9, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

BILD Expo Day #2 Streams LIVE on Thursday at 9am ET

Today is Day #2 of the “BILD Expo”, the 50 year B&H Photo Anniversary, and you can watch the Main Stage streaming LIVE at the B&H YouTube channel starting at 9am eastern time. The live stream of the day #2 main stage is also YouTube-embedded below for your convenience. Day #1 (and Day #2 in the future) can be (re)watched at the aforelinked B&H YouTube channel.

And as always, a celebration goes hand in hand with a sale-a-bration as we mentioned earlier. There are plenty of BILD show specials but that’s not all. The B&H daily deals have transformed into a Super Sized Deal Zone with 280+ products instead of the usual 4-8 per day! Including three name-brand lenses…

September 7, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

FREE to Watch (starts Thur 12pm ET): 14-hour Food Photography Class

If your interests intersect at food x photography, you are in luck, because the headliner class at the Crative LIVE On-AIR, starting at 12pm ET on Thursday September 7 in 2023 is the “Food Photography” class with Andrew Scrivani with a total runtime of 13 hours and 44 minutes, which means it will only free-stream once in full length since the free-streaming window is 24 hours. So set your alarm clocks and reminders!

Chapter #7 of the class is already free to watch, think of it as the “Kindle sample” equivalent, if you want to see whether the instructor’s style and presentation and such are a good match for you!

September 7, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

BILD Expo Day #1 Streams LIVE on Wednesday at 9am ET

If you are not in New York, but you want to enjoy the festivities of the 50 year B&H Photo Anniversary, you can watch them streaming LIVE at the B&H YouTube channel. The live stream of the day #1 main stage is also YouTube-embedded below for your convenience – eg if you want to sample it.

And as always, a celebration goes hand in hand with a sale-a-bration as we mentioned earlier. There are plenty of BILD show specials but that’s not all. The B&H daily deals have transformed into a Super Sized Deal Zone with 280+ products instead of the usual 4-8 per day! Including three name-brand lenses…

September 6, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

Starts Tuesday 12pm ET (FREE to Stream): 13-hour Wedding Photography class

TIMELINE CORRECTION: the date is 5, not 6!

Starting at 12pm eastern time on Tuesday September 5 in 2023, at the CreativeLIVE ON-AIR, the headliner free to watch class is “Wedding Photography” with Joe Buissink. The runtime is 12 hours and 50 minutes, so the class will air in full only once. The second airing will be incomplete as the 24-hour window will close.

Lesson #3 of the class is already free to stream if you want to watch ahead of time to see if the instructor’s style and level is something that interests you in watching the whole thing. Think of it as the “Kindle sample” equivalent 🙂

September 5, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With:

CreativeLIVE $40 and $50 off coupons (AND Free-to-Watch Classes of the Week)

It’s coupon time at the Creative LIVE website!

If you want to start a Netflix-style subscription, coupon WELCOME99 gets you $50 off, making a 12-month paid subscription drop to $99 for the first year.

If you want to buy any of the many classes offered at the Creative Live website, coupon code JULYSAVINGS40 gets you $40 off your purchase.

If you don’t want to pay anything, Creative LIVE has you covered too. They have free-to-watch classes on an on-going basis, you watch them while they are free-streaming, but after that window closes, you cannot watch them anymore.

You can find the free-to-watch classes at the ON-AIR TODAY page. Upcoming classes include Macro (Chris McGinnis), Olympus Lens Guide (with John Greengo of course), Photoshop CC, portraiture, street photography, and various other creative and meta-creative topics.

July 6, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

Starts Thur 1pm ET: Nikon Z8 Live Panel Q&A Stream

If you are curious about the Nikon Z8, you are in luck because today there are TWO live-streams about the camera at two of the major camera-centric retailers!

Starting on Thursday 5/11/23 at 4pm ET, B&H Photo will be hosting a Nikon Z8 Live Panel Q&A Stream with Nikon Ambassadors Jerry Ghionis & Sharrone Calafiore.

This being a YouTube live stream, you can also ask your questions in the YouTube Live Chat!

The Nikon Z8 is available for pre-ordering at B&H starting at $4000. They also have three SmallRig cages available for pre-ordering.

May 11, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials, mirrorless deals, nikon Tagged With: , ,

Starts Thur 4pm ET: Nikon Z8 Live Panel Q&A Stream II

NO, you are not seeing twice. NO, I didn’t post the same thing twice. This is a separate and independent Nikon Z8 live stream 🙂

Starting at 4pm ET on Thursday 5/11/23, Adorama is hosting a Nikon Z8 launch live Q&A panel live-stream with four photographers, Jide Alakija, Kristi Odom, Mark Cruz and Seth Miranda! This being a YouTube live stream you can also ask questions during the live event in the YouTube Live Chat!

IF you miss it live, fear not, it will remain on YouTube for eternity or until Google goes bankrupt, whichever happens first 😉

The Nikon Z8 is available for pre-ordering at Adorama starting at $4000…

May 11, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials, mirrorless deals, nikon Tagged With: , ,

CreativeLIVE coupon: $20 off a $40+ order

If you want learnings of the photographic and creative kind, and prefer digital ownership instead of Netflix-style subscriptions, for a limited time coupon code BONUS20 gets you $20 off a digital purchase of $40+ at the Creative LIVE website. Terms, conditions, restrictions, etc, etc, etc, apply!

April 14, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

CreativeLIVE coupons: $20/$39+ and $99 1-Year Sub

A couple of limited-time coupon offerings are currently live at the CreativeLIVE website!

+ coupon BONUS20 gets you $20 off a purchase of $39+ at the CreativeLIVE website

+ coupon FEB50 gets you $50 off the first year of their prepaid Netflix-style 12-month CreativeLIVE subscription, dropping it from $149 to $99

February 21, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

Day #2 of B&H Depth of Field is LIVE!

Day #2 of the B&H Photo Depth of Field Conference is now live on the Youtubes! You can find them all, past, present and future at the B&H YouTube channel. Note that as of late YouTube is putting live streams under the “LIVE” sub-tab over there, not the “Videos” sub-tab as before. You can also find today’s live stream YouTube-embedded below…

And speaking of the conference, B&H is also running accompanying Trade Show specials…

February 8, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

LIVE NOW (and FREE to Watch): B&H Depth of Field Day #1

Time for some e-learnings! Today is DAY #1 of the B&H Photo Depth of Field Conference. It runs for two days, day #2 is February 8!

You can watch it LIVE or tape-delayed, there are two stages, and they are both streaming and getting archived on YouTube! You can also find them YouTube-embedded below:

MAIN STAGE

EXPOSURE STAGE

February 7, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

$20 off a $39+ order w/CreativeLIVE coupon

Thanks to technology you can make your own kind of music, but thanks to coupon technology you can make your own kind of deal at the Creative Live website where coupon code CREATE2023 gets you $20 off any order of $39 or more. The offer is good for the whole of January 2023!

January 20, 2023 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

1-Year Prepaid CreativeLIVE Sub for $99 AC

Coupon code FRIDAY50 gets you $50 off an annual CreativeLIVE subscription, dropping it from $149 to $99! This is for the first year of the subscription, that is, the first 12 months, aka the first 365 days. Some exclusions and restrictions apply…

November 24, 2022 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

CreativeLive Coupon: $20 off a $40+ purchase

You can make your own kind of music but you can also make your own kind of deal! For a limited time (until the end of October 2022), coupon code OCT20 gets you $20 off a purchase of $40+ on any class at the Creative Live website.

October 26, 2022 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

1-Year Prepaid CreativeLIVE for $99 after coupon

If for the next 12 months you are going to have available time to watch classes on various photo-related and creative/business-related subjects, CreativeLIVE is back with a coupon code for their CreativeLIVE Subscription plan. Coupon code SAVE50 drops the price of the 1-year prepaid plan from $149 to $99. This is the equivalent of paying $8.25 per month but you pay it annually.

Most but not all classes and instructors are included. This is a Netflix-style plan, you can watch as much as you want as long as you are a paying subscriber. When the paying subscription ends, you can no longer watch (unless you had previously purchased a class)…

July 30, 2022 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

1-Year prepaid CreativeLIVE Subscription for $99 AC

The sale is back thanks to coupon code SUMMER99 that gets you a 1-year prepaid CreativeLIVE subscription for $99 for the first 12 months of your new subscription!

It comes out to $8.50 per month but it is paid initially at $99. Great if you will be having the time/energy to watch a lot of content in the next few months!

A few instructions and classes are excluded per prior agreements. This is a Netflix-style subscription, once the paid membership ends, you do not own the classes.

May 25, 2022 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

100 new classes at CreativeLIVE (plus, $20 off $28+)

One hundred new classes have arrived at the CreativeLIVE website on many favorite/popular photography topics (lighting, adobe, etc) with a heavy emphasis on new lighting classes with Mark Wallace, and multiple instructors on various Adobe-related subjects…

Speaking of CL, coupon code MAY20 gets you $20 off a shopping cart of $28+ over there. From the verbiage, it looks like this coupon is good until the end of May 2022.

The coupon can also be used towards the CreativeLive Netflix-style membership. You can even use it on the monthly subscription, dropping the first month from $39 to $19. Useful if you are going to have plenty of free time to watch these classes…

May 18, 2022 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

$20 off $28+ at CreativeLIVE with coupon

You can make your own kind of music, and you can also make your own kind of deal at the Creative LIVE website thanks to a limited time $20 off coupon code MAY20 that gets you that discount on an order of $28 or more!

Speaking of educational, Amazon is having a limited time sale on just about all of their e-readers including the “free cellular” models…

May 5, 2022 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

$20 off a $28+ CreativeLIVE coupon

Good until the April 2022, coupon code APRIL20 gets you $20 off a class of $28+ at the Creative LIVE website… Terms, conditions, restrictions, etc, apply as usual…

April 17, 2022 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

1-Year CreativeLIVE membership for $99 AC

To celebrate their birthday, for a limited time, CreativeLIVE is offering a 1-year membership subscription for $99 after using coupon code BDAY50 over there. This is a Netflix-style annualized subscription.

You can follow the FAQ links over there for more details and the list of classes/teachers not included in the subscription.

April 5, 2022 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

FREE Registration: B&H Depth of Field on March 23 and 24 [online conference]

If it’s FREE, I’ll take THREE! The fifth annual B&H Photo Depth of Field conference takes place on March 23 and 24 in 2022, and you can register for FREE for the online experience!

The usual content is expected, webinars, classes, lectures, critiques, contests, brand booths, and of course special offers and promotions. Kelby and Duane Michals are the keynote speakers with lots of other well-known photographers (McNally, Baird duo, Hurley, etc) participating…

March 11, 2022 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

1-Year CreatorPass for $99 after coupon

Coupon time again! Coupon code 50FEB gets you $50 off a 1-Year CreatorPass subscription, making it $99 for a year (365 days). This is their Netflix-style plan, you can watch almost all classes while you are a paying member, but when it expires, you own nothing…

Elsewhere in the recent offers:

+ FREE 12oz “Rockstar Unplugged” energy drink tin for Lucky’s Rewards members

+ Weekend Sale at DiscountMags
+ no camera/photo this time

February 18, 2022 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

1-Year CreativeLIVE Netflix Plan (CreatorPass) for $99AC

With Omikron threatening to lock us up inside once again, the time may be right for more learnings instead of mindless TV and web surfing and forum dramaz 😉

With that perhaps in mind, for a limited time, coupon code NEWYEAR22 gets you a 1-Year CreativeLIVE CreatorPass for $99. This is a Netflix-style plan and for one year (365 days), you can watch over 2000 classes at CreativeLIVE whenever you want, as many times as you want. As with Netflix, when you stop paying, you stop watching 🙂

Basic FAQs on the service at the bottom of the page over there, but for more, head on to their FAQ page. Offline viewing is only available on select classes, only with the CreativeLIVE iOS app. SADLY they don’t have an Android app.

They offer a 7-day refund. They (relatively) recently launched a Roku channel, and they have a limited functionality AppleTV app. You can also GIFT the CreatorPass to others. A very …creative gift that keeps on giving for a whole year!

Per CL, 98% of the classes are included in the CreatorPass streaming plan, but due to prior agreements with instructors, select classes/instructors are not included in the plan. You can find them at the Exclusions page.

December 22, 2021 Filed Under: classes and tutorials Tagged With: ,

FREE to Watch (Class Premiere): Understanding Light and Light Modifiers with Mark Wallace

Creative LIVE is having a class premiere and for a limited time it is FREE to watch as part of their ON-AIR free-streaming program. The class is by Mark Wallace, 6 hours and 22 minutes long, “Understanding Light and Light Modifiers”. This is free to watch for this limited time window, you do not digitally-own the class for FREE!

The class premiered at 9am pacific (12pm ET), so it will repeat every 6 hours and 22 minutes. So 6:22pm ET, 12:44am ET, 7:06am ET.

The FREE-streaming ON-AIR schedule classes typically run for 24 hours, starting at 9am pacific (12pm eastern) every calendar day.

SPEAKING of CL, running until Thursday night, they are offering 30 classes for $10 to $15 including minimalist photography, portrait-related, editorial, multiple-flashes, Art of Seeing (Lanting class), boudoir/glamo(u)r, retouching, landscaping, PhotoChop CC, etc…

December 21, 2021 Filed Under: classes and tutorials, lighting deals Tagged With: