Today, I’m excited to announce the newest edition of “Creative Landscape Photography: Light, Vision, and Composition”! Along with many smaller changes, Nasim and I have added two major new chapters that cover post-processing with artistic intent. The book is now 167 pages long (up from 149) and stands as our most detailed tutorial on landscape photography yet.
As always, Photography Life’s Silver and Gold Members get access to all eBook updates included with their Photography Life membership starting at $5/month. If you’re a Member, you can head over to the download page and get your copy for free! If you’re not a Member, you can buy a copy for $20.
More good news, we’re also running a sale on annual memberships to coincide with the updated eBook! For a limited time, all Photography Life annual memberships are 12% off, and this discount applies to your membership permanently. In other words, you will continue to get 12% off not only this year, but also every subsequent year if you join today. We do not offer a higher discount than this – if you were planning to become one of our Members, now is the time to lock in the price by signing up here! Along with all eBook updates, our memberships include early access to Photography Life’s lens tests, monthly photo critiques, in-depth Online Workshops, a Member Q&A chat, and more.
As for this eBook, allow me to give a little more background in case you haven’t heard about it yet. Creative Landscape Photography: Light, Vision, and Composition is one of the most detailed dives into the art of landscape photography that you will find anywhere online or in print. Nasim and I wrote it with the goal of providing a truly comprehensive explanation of one of the lesser-discussed, but most important, elements of a successful photo: the creative side. It is not a book that talks very much about camera settings or gear. Instead, it focuses on what makes a photo successful at a fundamental level, and how to work toward that with your own photography. Below are a few sample pages to show you what you can expect from the eBook (click to see full size).
Aside from today’s announcement, November is going to be another big month for Photography Life Members. Keep an eye out as we publish another eBook (Photography Basics) on November 19th, followed by a multi-hour video course titled “Creative Post-Processing: How to Bring Out the Best of Your Photos” on November 26th, and our monthly photo critique on November 30th. I hope you enjoy these fruits of our labor and use them to improve your photography skills!
Finally, some of you may remember when we first offered this eBook for sale at Photography Life many years ago, before we had a membership page. If you bought the eBook at that time, you are also entitled to this update. Please reach out to me via the Contact Us form if that applies to you, and I will send your copy to you for free.
Some people have had trouble downloading the eBook after purchasing it. I’ve spent all day troubleshooting but cannot get to the bottom of it. There is one solution that appears to be working for almost everyone. Rather than clicking the Download button as usual, instead, please right click on the download button and click “Open in New Tab.” Doing this seems to force the site to download the eBook properly.
I apologize for this problem and will continue trying to figure out the root cause tomorrow. If you buy it and run into issues downloading, please leave a comment here and I will email you a copy of the eBook.
Dear Photographylife Team,
I am interested in purchasing your latest ebook v2. But to do so I have to create some sort of account (patreon ?) which is confusing and definitely not my intention.
Please explain and/or advise.
Thanks and kind regards,
Udo
Hey Udo, fair enough. The account is meant so that anyone who buys the eBook can log in later and get future updates for free. But if you’d rather just PayPal us $20, I will email you the eBook instead. I’ve sent you a message with more details.
Hi Spencer, unfortunatelly, cannot download the book
Hi Valery, I can see on my end that you purchased it. Emailing you a copy of the eBook right now.
Does this book teach sky replacement, generative fill, remove? If so, I don’t want any part of this book. All of these things are detrimental to the future of photographers who still shoot real photos.
100% agree with you. None of those topics are discussed in the eBook, apart from one paragraph mentioning that Nasim and I do not consider these to be photography.
Downloading was a bit surprising: After clicking on the download button, nothing happened at first, but after about 20 seconds a window appeared to select the save location. The file was 68967kb in size – everything was OK. I am now immersed in the reading with great anticipation.
Very glad that it worked for you! I think this is the problem that people have been running into.
To anyone who is reading this: if you’ve had problems saving the eBook, try clicking the download button, then waiting without leaving the page for it to run in the background. It may take up to a minute or longer if you have a slow connection. The file size is 70MB, about the same as a couple raw files.
The download doesn’t appear to be working. Can’t wait to dig in.
Hi Randy, everything looks like it’s working normally on my end. I’ll email you so we can get to the bottom of this.
Thanks Spencer. The download now works.
Can’t wait to check this out. I thought the current eBook was excellent. Looking forward to these additions!
Thank you, I think you’ll really enjoy it!