Saturday eBook: 83 Composition Tools from the Masters for $4

One of the Saturday Kindle daily deals is a photography ebook! For $4 you can haz the “The Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos: 83 Composition Tools from the Masters” by Marc Silber. IT came out in May 2018 from Mango Media, 172 pages, 4.4 out of 5 based on 330 customer ratings as of the time of writing.

Elsewhere, at the risk of sounding like a broken record, the Adorama dailies continue to be in “Top Deals” mode.

On the freebies front, if you are a member of the Lucky’s Rewards program, you can get a FREE 16oz Sparking Ice Energy drink at Lucky’s and SaveMart and associated B&M grocery stores.

FREE to WATCH on Saturday
Starting at 9am pacific, a new day of free-to-watch e-classes dawns at the Creative LIVE ON-AIR including:

+ Lighting 401 with Pye Jirse and SLR Lounge, 6 hours and 12 minutes, repeats throughout the day

+ Image Trace in Ilustrator CC

+ Compositing for Digital Scrapbookers

TECH TIP of the DAY
Like the old magazines, we have a tech tip of the day! Are you using a Chromebook? The time is right to freshen up on the keyboard shortcuts. You’ll be surprised to find some exciting new shortcuts (unless you already know them all) ๐Ÿ™‚

eBook: Night Sky Photography: From First Principles to Professional Results for $2

Amazon wants to crash your Kindle e-book readers and Kindle apps because they have a Kindle eBook sale with over 2000 eBooks featured. Among them there’s actually one on-topic ebook, “Night Sky Photography: From First Principles to Professional Results” for $2 by Adam Woodworth. This is January 2021, Ilex Press, 373 pages, and as of the time of writing it averages 4.7 out of 5 on 373 customer ratings.

It is currently the #1 best seller in the Color Photography eBooks sub-category per the aforelinked Amazon product page…

Sat eBook: Field of Play: 60 Years of NFL Photography by Michael Zagaris for $4

Are you ready for some football? Of the NFL kind? One of the 5/20/23 Kindle daily deals is the “Field of Play: 60 Years of NFL Photography” Kindle ebook by photographer Michael Zagaris. The sale price is $4.

This is a Cameron Books publication, October 2022, 296 pages, and as of the time of writing it averages 4.8 out of 5 based on 77 customer ratings…

FREE e-Book: Troublemakers (using Art Shay photography)

This is a FREE e-book from University of Chicago Press. It is offered for free by them, not through the usual ebook portals. As such, if you don’t use any of the services they use, you may have to create an account or login or use *GASP* Adobe DRM!

If I haven’t scared you away yet, keep on reading ๐Ÿ™‚

For the month of February 2023, to celebrate Black History Month, the University of Chicago Press is offering their book “Troublemakers – Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay” by Erik S. Gellman for FREE. There are over 250 Photographs by photographer Art Shay, along with essays/text of Gellman. This is 304 pages long and came out in January 2020.

You can get the book for FREE in three different ways, you have to give them your email address:

  1. read it online at BiblioVault, login required via Google or Facebook or a Chicago Press Books account
  2. download using the Readium/Thorium/Aikido apps on PC, Mac, iOS, Android, or Linux (Chromebooks can use the Android option or Linux if they have it installed); you have to create a “PassPhrase” for access
  3. download it using Adobe DRM (BOOOOOOO!!!!!) and an appropriate eReader app

The last time I tried to download from them (a while back), the only option was the yucky Adobe DRM. Thankfully now there are two more options. Still not as simple as buying an ebook on a Kindle or Google Play or iOS (or Windows Store whenever Microsoft flirts with offering digital content (and then promptly shuts it down it #ZuneLivesInOurHearts))

PS: if you want to get a feel for the book (Look Inside) and read customer reviews, check its Amazon page [NOT FREE at Amazon, it is $16).

Wedn: Learning to See: A Photographerโ€™s Guide from Zero to Your First Paid Gigs for $4

Among the Wednesday Kindle daily deals at Amazon there’s a photography e-book! For $4 you can get the “Learning to See: A Photographerโ€™s Guide from Zero to Your First Paid Gigs” by David Molnar. You also receive automatically a $0.40 “Great on Kindle” promotional credit that automatically goes against eligible future ebook purchases.

This is 256 pages, September 2022, from Harper Holton, averaging 4.8 out of 5 based on 452 customer ratings as of the time of writing.

Wedn: “Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer” by Bob Guen for $4

Yes dear readers, rock-n-roll is king! Among the Wednesday 8/24/22 Kindle daily deals, Amazon is offering the “Right Place, Right Time: The Life of a Rock & Roll Photographer” by Bob Gruen for $4. This is 400 e-pages, October 2020, ABRAMS Press. As of the time of writing it averages 4.6 out of 5 based on 281 ratings.

As usual, you can “Look Inside” and/or get a Kindle e-book sample (the start of the book).

Thursday eBook: “Advancing Your Photography: Secrets to Making Photographs that You and Others Will Love” for $3

Looks like the Kindle daily deals have “discovered” photography books because one of the Thursday 7/21/22 deals du jour is the “Advancing Your Photography: Secrets to Making Photographs that You and Others Will Love” by Marc Silber for $3.

This is 257 pages, Mango Media, May 2017, and as of the time of writing it averages 4.5 out of 5 based on 317 customer ratings.

Saturday: Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos: 83 Composition Tools from the Masters for $3

One of the Kindle ebook daily deals for Saturday 7/16/22 in the pacific time zone is the “The Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos: 83 Composition Tools from the Masters” by Marc Silver for $3. This has 170 pages, from Mango Media, May 2018. As of the time of writing it averages 4.4 out of 5 based on 260 customer ratings.

Sunday (Kindle ebook): Digital Photography Complete Course: Learn Everything You Need to Know in 20 Weeks for $3

It is rare that we have two photography ebooks in a single day’s Kindle daily-deals but today is your lucky day! On sale for $3 is the Kindle ebook version of “Digital Photography Complete Course: Learn Everything You Need to Know in 20 Weeks” by DK books.

It is 359 pages and as of the time of writing it averages 4.7 out of 5 based on over 5040 global ratings.

This too I purchased when it was on sale last September but this too I have yet to e-read ๐Ÿ™‚

Sunday (Kindle ebook): How to Photograph Everything: Simple Techniques for Shooting Spectacular Images for $2

This recurring deal is back at the Kindle daily deals for Sunday 7/3/22, it is the Kindle ebook version of “How to Photograph Everything: Simple Techniques for Shooting Spectacular Images” by the editors of Popular Photography for $2.

It is 528 pages and as of the time of writing (of this blog-post, not of the book LOL) it averages 4.5 out of 5 based on 169 global ratings. You can send a sample to your Kindle device/app and also “Look Inside” with a web browser.

I bought this in January when it was on sale but it pains me to say that I have yet to e-read it ๐Ÿ™‚

Friday Kindle eBook: “Digital Photography Complete Course: Learn Everything You Need to Know in 20 Weeks” (DK, 359pp, Jan2021) for $2

This is a recurring Kindle daily deal, this time around it is back until Friday 4/29/22 at 11:59pm pacific time, it is the “Digital Photography Complete Course: Learn Everything You Need to Know in 20 Weeks” Kindle ebook by DK (359 pages, January 2021, Penguin) going for $2.

Kindle sample is available. On the “Hardcover” view there’s 12 images from the book (no separate “Look Inside”). As of the time of writing it averages 4.7 out of 5 based on 4642 customer ratings.

PS: and a freebie to help you with your reading sessions. During this weekend, members of the Lucky Rewards program can get a FREE Rockstar tin at your local Lucky’s brick and mortar store…

Friday: National Geographic The 21st Century: Photographs From the Image Collection for $33 [hardcover]

Nat-Geo time at the Friday 4/22/22 Amazon USA Gold Box. You can have the new condition hardcover “National Geographic The 21st Century: Photographs From the Image Collection” (November 2021, 400 pages, 4.5 out of 5 on 37 ratings) for $33 with free US shipping.

Elsewhere, at the NewEgg daily deals there’s another bonus Adidas gift card option along with the Bose 700 headphones for $329 which has also been price-match at Amazon’s

Meanwhile if you want to low-cost dabble into non-famous kinda-smartwatches, the Friday Meh daily deal is the Virmee VT3 IP68 Waterproof Smart Watch for $15 plus shipping…

Sunday (Kindle ebook): Photoshop Elements 2022 For Dummies 1st Edition for $5

Good until Sunday 4/10/22 at 11:59pm pacific time, as one of the Kindle daily deals you can get the “Photoshop Elements 2022 For Dummies 1st Edition” by Barbara Obermeier and Ted Padova for $5. This has 446 pages and as of the time of writing it averages 4.4 out of 5 based on 50 ratings…

Wedn: “How to Photograph Everything” ebook for $2

We have an e-book as one of the Kindle daily deals running until Wednesday 3/9/22 at 11:59pm pacific time (e-books don’t/can’t sell-out 99.999% of the time). It is the “How to Photograph Everything”, Simple Techniques for Shooting Spectacular Images Kindle Edition, from the editors of the Popular Photography magazine, going for $2.

This is 528 pages long, from Weldon Owen (publisher), came out November 2014, and as of the time of writing it averages 4.6 out of 5 based on 156 customer ratings.

I bought this the last time it was on sale (earlier in 2022) but it pains me to say I haven’t e-opened it yet, so I can’t tell you much about it. If I manage to go through it before the deal expires, I’ll post an update {don’t hold your e-breath though!}

Elsewhere at the Amazon USA Gold Box there is a TechOrbits standing desk converter sale, with options ranging from $48 to $184. Converters are cheaper and more flexible than replacing your existing desks with standing desks… On the other end of the price spectrum, an unopened kitchen roll can be a standing desk converter for small laptops ๐Ÿ˜‰

Wanting to remind people that Microsoft had a Surface Studio before it was cool, they have a Surface tablets sale ($170 to $650) under “Computers” at the Woot daily deals.

Then at the NewEgg dailies they have, among others:

+ 512GB Sandisk Ultra microSDXC for $49 after promo code
+ 10% off Samsung internal SSD
+ 128GB Samsung EVO A2 V30 U3 microSDXC for $16
+ Core i9 and i5, 32″ Gigabyte, WD blue, ASUS Strix R10, etc

eBook: “Sontag: Her Life and Work” for $3

The ebook Sontag: Her Life and Work by Benjamin Moser is on sale for $3 at Amazon for the Kindle. This is 793 pages, September 2019, published by Ecco [no, not the shoe company?]…

As of the time of writing this averages 4.6 out of 5 based on 221 ratings. This is part of a limited time Kindle sale but it is not part of the daily deals, so I do not know the exact expiration date of the offer…

Friday: Digital Photography Complete Course: Learn Everything You Need to Know in 20 Weeks for $2

Good until Friday 9/3/21 at 11:59pm pacific time [ebooks do not run out, technical issues aside], for $2 you can have the “Digital Photography Complete Course: Learn Everything You Need to Know in 20 Weeks” ebook by DK, publication date January 2021, 359 pages.

You can take a look at the first pages of the ebook using the Kindle sample, or use the “Look Inside” feature on the webpage to jump around inside the ebook. This is a rich content/images/graphics ebook, best read on bigger tablets and computer screens…

As of the time of writing this is #1 in the Digital Photography ebooks category…

Among the other Friday Kindle daily deals they have of potential interest the How Asia Works: Success and Failure In the World’s Most Dynamic Region by Joe Studwell…

Saturday eBook: “The Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos: 83 Composition Tools from the Masters” for $2

A photography-learning ebook is among the Kindle daily deals running until Saturday August 14 in 2021 at 11:59pm pacific time! The book is The Secrets to Creating Amazing Photos: 83 Composition Tools from the Masters by Marc Silber going for $2. As of the time of writing it averages 4.3 out of 5 on nearly 200 customer reviews…

Of potential interest among the other 50+ Kindle daily deals is another $2 ebook, 100 Hoaxes & Mistakes That Fooled Science by the editors of Popular Science…

Thursday: Nikon D3500 Dummies Guide eBook for $4

Into the Amazon Gold Box of Thursday 12/24/20 we go where among their Kindle daily deals they have a camera-guide-book on sale for $3.99! It is the Nikon D3500 for Dummies, Kindle edition ebook by Julie Adair King! This has 352 pages (just over a penny per page!), it is a larger file size obviously (lots of diagrams and such) and was published almost exactly two years ago.

As of the time of writing it averages 4.7 out of 5 based on 739 customer ratings (mix of written reviews and star-ratings-only). You can “Look Inside” to jump around the ebook, and you can also send a sample to your Kindle. The Kindle samples are almost always the start of the book, while the “Look Inside” allows you to randomly jump around.

PS: if you have the Kindle Unlimited Subscription, one of the Nikon D3500 ebooks can be borrow-read from there, the Nikon D3500 User Guide by Owen Giden. This is 99 pages long, published a couple of weeks ago. This book does not offer a jump-around “Look Inside”, just the Kindle sample. It has zero customer ratings but if you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription you lose nothing by borrowing it…

PS2: also part of the Thursday daily deals is another Dummies ebook, iPad for Seniors (12th edition, 415 pages, 4.2 out of 5 on 198 customer ratings) by Dwight Spivey for $5.

PS3: speaking of the D3500, the Neewer Battery Grip for select Nikon D3X00 and D5X00 APS-C dSLRs is on sale for $25 (4.6 out of 5 based on 1228 customer ratings as of the time of writing). This is an old-fashioned sale, not a lightning-deal.

Sunday: Presidential Photography of Pete Souza, “Obama: An Intimate Portrait” for $7 [Kindle, eBook]

Presidential Photographer Pete Souza [Wikipedia], chief white house photographer for two presidents, Reagan and Obama [one film, one digital we can assume], is one of the Kindle daily deals for Sunday, with his presidential photography e-book “Obama: An Intimate Portrait” covering all eight years (327 pages, November 2017). The sale price is $7 but you get a $0.70 “Great On Kindle” promotional store credit as well. You can “Look Inside” to see if this mix of presidential photography and text is something of interest. Offer ends Sunday at 11:59pm pacific time. eBooks don’t sell out… This is currently #1 in the Photography & Video category at Amazon…

Spend $25+ on Kindle ebooks, Get $6 promo credit

It’s that time of the year for the Kindle ebook offers as well! This promotion runs between November 23-30 in 2020. If you purchase $25+ in Kindle ebooks in any combination [eg one expensive ebook, or multiple ebooks on different days] during the promotional period, you will earn a $6 promotional Kindle ebook credit.

First, you must activate the promotion. If you are logged on, it may activate simply by visiting or reloading the page, or by following the link mentioned over there.

Once activated, any purchases you made during this promotional period [even before you activated the offer] count towards the $25 minimum.

Your $6 bonus will be applied to your Amazon account within two days of reaching the $25 minimum.

Once applied to your account, you have 21 days to spend the $6 ebook credit (you can use it on one ebook or multiple ebooks).

There are plenty of photography ebooks out there, from camera guides, to post-processing, to inspirational, to “Understanding Exposure” type of books, and so on. OR you can buy any other ebook sold at Amazon.

To make the most of it, plan also how to spend the $6 credit before jumping in on the offer, so it won’t be left to expire unused.

Some ebooks also have a “Great On Kindle” store credit, which is stackable with this $6 credit…

BOOK CLUB TIP: If you are looking for a long complicated epic fantasy that can be read by the whole family during the socially-distanced winter holidays, try The Stormlight Archive by Brandon Sanderson [there’s Kindle sample and look inside]. Not brutal or convoluted or uber-complicated or sexually charged as “A Song of Ice and Fire / Game Of Thrones”. From what I recall the most sexual thing that happened in book #1 was a kiss between two mature adults. Infact it’s so nonsexual you have to wonder whether most of the characters are eunuchs ๐Ÿ˜‰ Note that this is planned as a 10-book series but Sanderson is writing fast fast fast fast.

Wedn: “Picture This: How Pictures Work” by Molly Bang for $3

The number of ebook offers are increasing in the Amazno gold Box, and as such, the net may grab more photography-related ebooks. Such as this offer, good until 11/25/20 [one month until COVID Christmas!] at 11:59pm pacific time [ebooks rarely ever sell out]. It is a classic, Molly Bang’s “Picture This: How Pictures Work” going for $3. This is a 154-page book. As of the time of writing it averages 4.5 out of 5 based on 131 customer ratings…

You can request a free Kindle sample [and send it to your favorite Kindle app or Kindle ereader or tablet] or you can go to the Hardcover version and “Look Inside”.

UPDATE: of popular science interest, Brian Greene, one of the “physics/space science popularizers” has a daily deal ebook as well, it’s “Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe” for $4 (408 pages, February 2020, 4.5 out 5 with nearly 1000 ratings, you also get a $0.40 Great On Kindle credit)…

Friday: Photoshop Elements 2020 Dummies ebook for $5

Reading is FUN-da-mental! Of the Friday Kindle daily deals one is of photography interest, it is the Kindle edition of the Dummies Photoshop Elements 2020 by Barbara Obermeier and Tad Pavoda for $5. This has 425 pages and as of the time of writing it averages 4.4 out of 5 based on 260+ ratings…

Of “6 degrees of interest” to photography, and a wordplay on the more famous books, of math interest, it’s the The Joy of x: A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity by Steven Strogatz for $3…

Monday: “Picture This – How Pictures Work” Expanded Molly Bang classic for $3 [eBook]

The 1991 classic book “Picture This: How Pictures Work” by Molly Bang is now available in an expanded and revised edition (2016, 154pp, Chronicle Books), and it is one of the Monday 7/6/20 Kindle daily deals going for $3. It averages 4.3 out of 5 based on 170+ ratings [rating is the (weighted? who knows) sum of written reviews and plain star-ratings].

Speaking of Amazon, it’s a very busy day of tech in the Germany Gold Box where the sales including a stunna ASUS Zen Ultrabook for 899 euro, MSI gaming, TP-Link, 15 euro multimeter kit, Oppo’s Find X2 smartphone line (PRO, NEO, Lite), Huawei MateBook 13, EGLO lighting, refurbished iPhones, IBRA cables, Amazon hardware, SodaStream, Melitta shiny coffee machines, Fitbit, Sennheiser, Bosch and Samsung Galaxy M31 smartphones…

Thursday: Zen Camera by David Ulrich for $2 [ebook]

Good until Thursday 6/4/20 at 11:59pm pacific time [I almost forgot to post it!], as one of the Amazon Kindle daily deals, you can get the 224-page Kindle ebook “Zen Camera” by David Ulrich for $1.99 but you also receive a $0.30 store credit towards future purchases of “Great on Kindle” ebooks. The store credit is applied automatically and expires automatically if not used.

The ebook averages 4.5 out of 5 based on 74 customer reviews. The price was right so I just purchased it but obviously I can’t read it and digest it and review it before the expiration time. I’m not a 32-core system after all, I’m just a Celeron ๐Ÿ™‚

As the Zen in the title hints at, this is a blend of photography and (Westernized) Zen, so prepare for some spiritual materialism ๐Ÿ˜‰

If you want to take a shot at the book but you are not sure whether it’s something you’d like, and you are going to have the time in the next few days to dive into it, note that Amazon offers refunds of ebooks within a few days after purchase. Locate the purchase under amazon.com/myk [myk = my kindle] and request a refund.I think it’s seven days but I’m not 100% certain.

Tuesday: “Picture This: How Pictures Work” eBook for $3 [Molly Bang, August 2016, 154pg]

Among the Tuesday 4/28/20 Amazon Gold Box deals of the day is a photography ebook on sale for $3! It is the “Picture This: How Pictures Work” ebook by Molly Bang, 154 pages, published in August 2016. As of the time of writing, it averages 4.3 out of 5 based on 160 customer reviews…

You can read the first few pages of the ebook with the Kindle sample, or you can jump around inside the book when you use the “Look Inside” feature at the Print Book page

This book was originally published in 1991…

Sale ends on 4/28/20 at 11:59pm pacific time. eBooks do not sellout ๐Ÿ™‚

Sunday: “Understanding Exposure” [4th ed, 2016] ebook by Bryan Peterson for $2

Don’t want, RUN to Amazon! Good until Sunday 4/5/20 at 11:59pm pacific time [ebooks don’t run out], you can get the 4th edition of Bryan Peterson’s “Understanding Exposure” for $2 as one of the Sunday Kindle deals of the day. The 4th edition came out in 2016 (Random House).

If you haven’t seen this book before, you can get a Kindle sample for the beginning of the book, and you can use the page for the print edition of the book to “Look Inside” which allows you to jump around a book, very helpful in trying to figure out whether this is something that might interest you. o/~ Jump, jump, jump around! o/~

Used Print Book: “Instant: The Story of Polaroid” for $5

If you like print photography books but don’t want to pay new condition price, in “Used – Good” condition you can get the book “Instant: The Story of Polaroid” by Christopher Bonanos (2012, 192 pages, 4.5 out of 5 based on 70+ customer reviews) for $5~ by a 3rd-party seller at Amazon Warehouse Deals with free shipping from the seller (not fulfilled by Amazon, so more people get free shipping). Better conditions go for slightly more ($6~ in “Used – Very Good”)

Tuesday: Dorothea Lange ebook for $3

One of the Tuesday Kindle deals of the day at Amazon is an e-book written by Dorothea Lange’s grand daughter about her grandmother, “Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning” for $2.99.

Speaking of ebooks, for a limited time (but longer than a daily deal), Amazon is running a 99c+ ebook sale

10% off 700+ B&N Photography Outlet books

One of the popular things to do back when there were big-chain bookstores on many street corners was to go inside and browser around the Clearance section where you could find giant photography books at a bargain price.

You can sort of do this online by heading to the B&N Outlet page and more specifically digging down to the Photography Section where they have 700+ books on clearance/sale there. You can further drill down on them using the categories (and then the sub-categories) on the left hand side of their page…

And for a limited time, coupon code FIREWORKS gets you 10% off your purchase over there and for many other items sold at the B&N website ~ with the usual coupon exclusions they have (eg, no Nook books, no LEICA Legos, etc). Check website for details…

Friday Blurb flash sale: 30% off Photography Book purchases with coupon

Blurb is not only selling custom photo books for photographers to print, but also allows photographers (and others) to sell their own books to the general public. Which brings us to this limited time flash sale for Friday 6/21/19, coupon code SUMMERSAVING3RT gets you 30% off the purchase of other people’s books at the Blurb Bookstore which features Photography books, along with other related categories such as Travel and Cookbooks and more. Browse through or use their detailed categories selector.

Or jump directly to the Art & Photography Books page, where they have “just” 110,000 (!!!) options. Happy browsing ๐Ÿ™‚

If any of you have photography books published there, post them in the Comments so our other readers can check them out and mayhaps purchase them using the flash sale coupon!

And for the speed-readers, this is a coupon for buying other people’s photography books. It is not a coupon to create your own custom photo books!