I’m excited to convey you two large bulletins as we speak! First, I simply up to date our “Images Fundamentals” eBook so as to add a brand new chapter masking digicam tools, which all Images Life Silver and Gold Members can obtain without cost. Second, we’ve launched a serious sale by means of Cyber Monday for brand new members who be part of our web page.
From now till 11:59pm MST on Monday, all new Images Life memberships are 25% off in your first month or yr. You’ll be able to be part of our Member Web page on Patreon right here. Additionally, this sale combines with our normal 10% low cost if you buy an annual membership, representing our lowest costs of the yr. (The sale has been going for a couple of days, so for those who joined earlier this week, you bought the sale worth.)
As for the brand new chapter within the Images Fundamentals eBook, it brings the e book to 157 pages of pictures instruction, up from 145. As at all times, Images Life Members get any eBook updates included along with your membership, so go and obtain it as we speak! It is best to have gotten an e-mail with the hyperlink. Right here’s a screenshot of the brand new chapter:
To recap for anybody who’s unfamiliar with our Member Web page, it’s a technique to be part of our neighborhood of photographers and get unique Images Life content material. We run it on the exterior web site Patreon and formally launched the web page final yr. To this point, over 800 Silver and Gold Members have signed up, and we’ve already written over 300 distinctive articles over there, together with photograph critiques, lens sharpness exams, and weekly pictures ideas. A broad define of what our Members obtain is as follows:
Silver Members
- Extra articles and updates: You’ll get unique articles that don’t seem wherever else. Additionally, you’ll be the primary to learn about upcoming initiatives, movies, critiques, and different issues we’re engaged on at Images Life behind the scenes.
- Seven weekly pictures ideas: Every week, I’m publishing seven new pictures ideas and tidbits that ought to assist your pictures. That’s 365 ideas a yr, so if even a couple of educate you one thing helpful in your pictures, I feel it’s well worth the worth of entry.
- Early entry to our lens sharpness exams: It may not be apparent from the skin, however I often take a look at a lens within the lab a number of weeks, if not months, earlier than the assessment really will get revealed. That’s just because it takes loads of time to flesh out the complete assessment and submit it on photographylife.com – however our Members get to see the sharpness outcomes instantly. For instance, it’s going to nonetheless be a few weeks earlier than I’ve sufficient pattern pictures from the Nikon Z 24-70mm f/2.8 S II, however all the lab take a look at outcomes have been obtainable for our Members since October.
- Our “Artistic Panorama Images” and “Images Fundamentals” eBooks: Nasim and I spent years writing these eBooks and making them as helpful as attainable. Along with your membership, you get each eBooks included, plus all updates and new chapters that we’ll add to it sooner or later without cost.
- Month-to-month pictures livestream: Jason and I host a pictures Q&A livestream every month, which options post-processing classes, technical discussions, culling demonstrations, and extra.
Gold Members
- All the advantages of Silver Members: Self-explanatory, however something that we publish for Silver Members additionally applies for Gold Members.
- 4 on-line workshops per yr: These are the signature merchandise of Images Life. To this point, now we have revealed 4 on-line workshops: The Artwork of Composition, Artistic Publish-Processing, Secrets and techniques of Skilled Wildlife Photographers, and Mastering Milky Approach Images. Between them, it’s over 10.5 hours of high-quality, unique video tutorials (fully AI-free, after all). 4 extra will likely be revealed previous to April 15, 2026.
- Month-to-month photograph critique livestreams: Every month, we do a name for submissions the place you possibly can ship your pictures to our crew for a considerate dwell critique. We’re not within the enterprise of tearing folks down – as an alternative, we analyze what’s good a couple of photograph and what you possibly can search for subsequent time. Personally, I discover that watching pictures being critiqued, whether or not your pictures or another person’s, is one of the best ways to refresh your inventive sensibilities as a photographer.
- Vote on which lenses we assessment subsequent: Often, I’m juggling about 8-10 upcoming lens critiques at any given time. You’ll be able to vote on which of them we’ll prioritize subsequent, and you’ll counsel new lenses for us to assessment. In case you’ve ever needed Images Life to assessment a selected piece of apparatus as quickly as attainable, that is how one can make it occur.
- Early signup for in-person workshops: Our in-person workshops typically promote out inside 24 hours of the general public announcement. Gold Members will get notified and may join 48 hours early, which successfully ensures you a spot.
Usually, these tiers are $5/month and $12/month respectively. From now till the tip of Cyber Monday, they’re $3.75/month and $9/month respectively, and even lower than that for those who go along with a yearly membership. It’s our greatest sale of the yr – we don’t supply these costs exterior of the Black Friday weekend. Be a part of our neighborhood as we speak!
(Notice that current month-to-month Silver and Gold Members can swap to yearly, too, and get the identical low cost. I described the method for doing so in this submit.)