5DayDeal “Complete Photography Bundle” for $117, 5 Days Only

Our friends at 5DayDeal have put together their “The Complete Photography Bundle” for the 5th straight year. This is their “classic” bundle of eBooks and videos focused on making you a better photographer. It’s available for only $117 for five days only — the deal expires on October 18th at 3 PM ET, and this bundle will never be offered again!

This “The Complete Photography Bundle” is their traditional bundle, focused on how to take great shots, and how to post-process them into astounding photographs. We spent some time reading and reviewing the bundle and our thoughts are below.

We found the following parts of “The Complete Photography Bundle” the most interesting:

• Our favorite item this year was the eBook LIT: Lighting Secrets of the World’s Best Wedding Photographers. It features 52 gorgeously lit shots from 52 different wedding photographers — with a full description of the shot and lighting setup. A great source of inspiration from a varied source (not just the same photographer for an entire book.)
• A very close second was David Nightingale’s Essential Guide To Black And White Photography. David starts by covering the philosophy and aesthetic of black & white photography, with many great examples to explore what makes a good color vs. black & white photograph. This is followed by a detailed technical explanation for black & white conversion in Lightroom, Photoshop, and other popular tools, in addition to image toning techniques.
• Posing subjects is always difficult, and there are two interesting guides: Jeff Rojas’ instructional video on posing men, and Brent Mail’s sequence/flow for posing models.
• Blake Rudis has a very skillful video tutorial on Dodging and Burning in Photoshop which takes this difficult artform to entirely new levels.
• We haven’t had time to go through all of them, but there are many creative presets and tools that can help accelerate many workflows as well as explore new design styles.

As before, if you see just a few items of interest in the “The Complete Photography Bundle”, it’s worth a purchase at $117. You never know — perhaps something unexpected in the bundle will inspire you. As an added plus, 10% goes to charity.