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.

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…

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!

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

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

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

$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!

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…

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.

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)…

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.

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…

$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…

$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…

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.

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…

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

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.

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…

Wedn: select Adobe Classes $16 to $18 each

Running until Wednesday 12/15/21 at 11:59pm, CreativeLiVE is offering select Adobe classes for $16 or $18 each. This includes Lightroom, Photoshop, CC, Presets, Classic, Premiere, Camera RAW, and Illustrator…

$9 Class sale at CreativeLiVE (8 options)

Creative LIVE is back with another sale, this is a $9 sale with eight classes offered, including multiple flashes (Mike Hagan), posing, lighting for boudoir, video for photographers, etc…

Following the $9 block of offers, there are also $19 and $24 blocks. The $24 block includes a couple of bootcamp classes (weddings, newborns) and the Fine Art Photography complete guide.

PRO TIP: weddings and newborns are highly saturated markets, HOWEVER, one untapped market segment is …”Divorce Photography” 😉

Saturday: 15 Classes for $15 each [CL]

Good until Saturday 12/5/21 at 11:59pm pacific time, the Creative LIVE Days of Deals deal of the day is a “15 classes for $15 each” sale. Topics include weddings, newborns, social media for photographers, seniors (the young seniors that is), and more…

Cyber Monday CreativeLIVE coupon: $20 off a $40+ purchase

Cyber Monday arrives with a coupon at the Creative LIVE website. Using coupon code CYBER20 you get $20 off a purchase of $40+. This is a limited time coupon offer.

Reminder, CreativeLIVE still does not have an Android app BUT they have a Roku channel, so you can watch their content using your Roku(s) and your CL credentials.

85% off near site-wide sale at CreativeLIVE

CreativeLIVE has gone wild. As part of the Black Friday festivities, they are offering 85% off nearly site-wide, on almost all the classes they offer. The price you see on the individual class page is the price you pay. No coupon code needed…

Note however that a small number of classes/bundles are not eligible for the discount because of prior agreements/arrangements with the instructors…

1-Year CreativeLIVE Creator Pass for $99 AC

For a limited time, coupon code 50CP gets you the first year of a CreativeLIVE Creator Pass subscription for $99. This price is only for the first year (12 months aka 365 days) of subscription…

This is a Netflix-style subscription where you can watch as many classes as you want, as many times as you want, AS LONG as you are a paying subscriber. Over 2000 classes are available but not every class. A few instructors and classes are not eligible per prior agreement.

While Creative LIVE still doesn’t have an Android app (only iOS), there are some good news on the Roku front, they have now a Roku channel, which averages 3.6 out of 5 based on 27 ratings…

75% off bundles at Creative LIVE

For a limited time, Creative LIVE is running a sale on photography bundles. The price you see is the price you pay. Bundles include lighting, Adobe, beginners, outdoorsy, food, Photoshop, Frans Lanting, DIY lighting, and Ben Willmore ~ among others…

15 CreativeLIVE classes for $15 each

For a limited time, CreativeLIVE is running a 15 classes for $15 each promotion. No coupon needed. Topics include Adobe Camera RAW, Lighting, Newborns, flower photography, compositing, business, portraiture, the “art of seeing”, and more…

Speaking of limited time, starting at 10am pacific time (1pm eastern) on Monday October 18 in 2021, Apple will be live-streaming on the interwebs a new product-announcement event. And as fate would have it, I will be live-tweeting the event on the Twitter at @1001noisycamera (without a final “s”)… Because why not ???

You can also watch the Apple event YouTube-embedded below…

1-Year prepaid CreativeLIVE Netflix-style subscription for $105 after coupon

For a limited time, coupon code 30AUG gets you a 1-Year CreativeLIVE subscription for $105 for the first year (12 months). This is a Netflix-style subscription. The sale price is only for the first year of the subscription. A small number of classes are not included in the subscription (per CL agreements with the non-participating instructors)…

1-Year CreativeLIVE Subscription for $109 after coupon

For new subscribers, CreativeLIVE has a surprise coupon for their 1-Year Creative LIVE subscription, their Netflix-style plan that lets you watch most of the online classes on their website for 1-year, Netflix-style for $109 thanks to limited time coupon code SUMMER40 entered over there.

I do not know when the coupon expires, presumably when it stops working 🙂

The list of exclusions can be found by looking up the relevant question under the “See All FAQs” further down the page over there…

CreativeLIVE sale: $19 per class (many but not all)

CreativeLIVE is back with yet another sale, the summer heat is heating up their marketing offers 😉 This is sale features $19 classes. Many of the individual classes on their website are on sale but not all of them. Check the individual product page of each class of interest to see if it’s on sale.

As usual, this is a limited time offer. I do not know when it is scheduled to expire…