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Our First Online Workshop + 72 Hour Sale Announced!

By Spencer Cox 13 Comments
Published On August 28, 2024

This morning, I am thrilled to announce the release of one of the biggest projects in Photography Life’s history – our first Online Workshop, The Art of Composition! Along with this workshop, I’m announcing a 72-hour sale on yearly memberships with a price that we won’t bring back. Here are all the details.

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Chamonix 8×10; Nikkor T 800mm f/12 @ f/64, 2 seconds, Kodak E100; No filters

The Art of Composition is a deep dive into the principles of creative photography. It features six lessons from the field and five group discussions with the Photography Life team, aiming to give you a wide-ranging perspective on every aspect of composition. As your primary instructor for this course, I’ve done everything I can to distill the benefits of a $3000+ in-person workshop into a comprehensive online tutorial.

Photography Life’s Gold Members receive The Art of Composition for free, along with access to a Q&A livestream session that we are hosting in September. For everyone else, the Online Workshop is available for the price of $120. It will remain free to download for Gold Members until the release of our next Online Workshop later this year.

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NIKON D500 + Nikon 500mm f/4 @ ISO 2800, 1/1000, f/5.0 © Libor Vaicenbacher

Moreover, to celebrate the release of The Art of Composition, I’m announcing a sale on Photography Life’s annual memberships with our steepest discounts. During today’s sale, you will get 16% off any Photography Life membership tier if you choose the annual payment option, which represents two months free per year. This discount is much bigger than it looks, because it’s permanent. It doesn’t just apply to this year – you will also be getting two months free every subsequent year.

When we first announced the annual membership option a few months ago, we ran the same sale, and I mentioned that it would only be something we do rarely. That was true – this is the only other time we will offer such a discount. I’m sure we’ll still run membership sales on Photography Life in the future, but this is the last time that we will offer the 16% off discount. This is also the highest discount that Patreon’s settings even allow us to select. If you were planning to become an annual member, now’s the time to do it.

  • You can visit the Member Page here to sign up for a Silver or Gold membership and see the benefits of each tier. Monthly prices are $5/month and $12/month respectively, and annual prices with today’s sale will give you two months free each year. Among other benefits, Gold Members get each of our Online Workshops included with their membership.
  • If you’re not a Gold Member, you can purchase The Art of Composition for $120 here.

(Existing monthly members can switch to yearly right now and get the same discount for the next 72 hours. I described the process for doing so in this post.)

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X2D 100C + XCD 90V @ 90mm, ISO 64, 1/200, f/7.1 © Adam Sheridan

That covers the main points you need to know about The Art of Composition and our 72-hour sale. Please feel free to ask in the comments below if you have questions about this Online Workshop, our membership options, or anything else.

Lastly, thank you again to all of our Members for supporting Photography Life! You’re the reason why we could eliminate ads on the website at the start of the year and switch to a reader-based approach instead. I will always appreciate that, and I hope that you get as much out of this project as I put into it.

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NIKON D500 + Nikon 500mm f/5.6 PF @ ISO 220, 1/1600, f/5.6 © Jason Polak
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About Spencer Cox

I'm Spencer Cox, a landscape photographer based in Colorado. I started writing for Photography Life a decade ago, and now I run the website in collaboration with Nasim. I've used nearly every digital camera system under the sun, but for my personal work, I love the slow-paced nature of large format film. You can see more at my personal website and my not-exactly-active Instagram page.

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John Cannon
John Cannon
September 4, 2024 5:55 am

Hi Guys. Is the membership sale still available
I am just back in the UK and was not available to connect with you earlier

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Spencer Cox
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Reply to  John Cannon
September 6, 2024 11:53 am

It’s not, but I’ll send you an email separately.

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R. Wacker
R. Wacker
September 2, 2024 3:34 pm

Dear Spencer Cox,

thank you for all the great content that especially you and Nasim made for us, too all the really wonderful content of Libor. I think most of the community around the world value your work, especially because it is more often not about new tech but about techniques in opposite to many other sites. I did apreciate the opportunity to participate your workshop, but at the end a gold membership still costs 162,79 € for a year. I guess a 120 € single participation is calculated too without taxes in Germany. The times are hard here in Germany and a lot of other countries, so I just can’t justify these costs for an for sure interesting workshop, especially because I am an amateur. I wish you a wonderful time and please continue to release your content, but you might think about to reduce prices and to increase the number of customers with a membership. Thank you anyway again and please don’t regard this as a criticism, it isn’t. It’s just that a lot of ordinary amateurs, aside from talent or experience, can’t afford the spinning wheel not easy anymore.

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Spencer Cox
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Reply to  R. Wacker
September 2, 2024 5:33 pm

I don’t take it as a criticism! It’s not something I’m going to advertise everywhere, but if you want to sign up for €12/month, download the workshop, and cancel after one month, I would understand. Then you could watch the full workshop for €12. We try to make our work accessible, knowing that not everyone is in a position to buy it, and I would have no hard feelings if you chose to do that.

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Glenn
Glenn
August 29, 2024 2:55 pm

Spencer: what is the best way for gold members to watch the videos? Through Patreon’s web site, or it there another access method

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bg5931
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Reply to  Glenn
August 29, 2024 3:29 pm

You can also download the videos if you first download the “attachment” file on the Patreon page. I found that for me, I could not really control the video very well within Patreon – the progress bar at the bottom of the video was unresponsive, so I could not skip parts or re-watch parts. So I just watched it all once, which was fine too. ;)

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Spencer Cox
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Reply to  Glenn
August 29, 2024 4:33 pm

Hi Glenn! Bg5931 is correct. It’s possible to watch the video directly from the “shop” section on our member page. But I recommend downloading it instead. When you buy it (or when you’re a Gold Member), you’ll get access to a PDF in the shop that has a list of many different ways to download the workshop.

I know it’s a little roundabout, but I did it this way to allow people to choose between many different ways to download the workshop. You can pick between 4K or 1080p, and between downloading the full video or as individual chapters. And as long as you keep the PDF, you can download it again in the future at any time.

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Charlie
Charlie
August 29, 2024 9:19 am

The workshop is referred to as The Art of Photography in the next to last paragraph.

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Spencer Cox
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Reply to  Charlie
August 29, 2024 4:34 pm

Thank you, Charlie! Just fixed it.

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DCO
DCO
August 28, 2024 4:25 pm

Support PL people! They eliminated ads here, kept the same great content, supply new content regularly here, while adding amazing value on Patreon like this product, forums and Live Photo critiques. All on a leap of faith that the community wanted a new approach, which they have delivered.

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Spencer Cox
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Reply to  DCO
August 28, 2024 4:59 pm

Very kind of you, thank you, and we will always try to give back as much as we get!

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Bg5931
Bg5931
August 28, 2024 1:27 pm

Congratulations on the release! I‘ve just started watching it – well done! Loved the comment about what we look for in a portrait of others vs. one of ourselves. :D

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Spencer Cox
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Reply to  Bg5931
August 28, 2024 4:57 pm

Thanks so much! I’m really happy to have published it, this has been the main focus of my work for months.

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