Ladies and Gentlemen….I am very, VERY pleased to announce that my Lighting Crash Course is now ready for immediate download!
We have had some small problems pop up over the last 48 hours and we expect a few a more to pop up over the next few days, so I personally thank you in advance for your patience. Whatever happens, just know we will work it out as fast and as best we can. We had some real issues with the server yesterday, and have everything worked out. We have even tested the downloads and know they work.
A few notes:
1. For a limited time only, the introductory price is just $45. I’m confident this will change shortly, probably to the $65 range (but I feel the course is really in the $250-300 value range.) I wanted to give those of you who have been checking my blog, Facebook, twitter, or newsletter first opportunity as well as a small discount. I always try to make it a point to over deliver, and for the price, I can absolutely, positively say: You will not find a better value or speed of Lighting photography training ANYWHERE.
2. We are trying our very best to evolve and provide the very best quality videos we can, and at this point, the Lighting Crash Course download is 1080 High Definition (HD)(though as a disclaimer a few lessons are SD). That said, the file sizes are pretty big, about 7GB for the whole course. We have broken it down into 4 parts, and it will depend on your internet connection, but I was personally able to download each part in less than an hour. The Course Runs about 225 minutes or 3 hours 45 minutes in length.
3. For those of you who have slow connections, I would advise downloading at night time, or downloading the Standard Definition (much smaller file sizes). which will be made available shortly.
4. We have also gone through a lot of work to set it up for those of you who want to pre-order the DVDs AND get the download, you can do so now, just make sure you select the Download / DVD Pre-Order Combo. The DVDs will ship as soon as we get them and we expect this to be sometime in late April.
5. We have already found a few very small errors which we will correct and update as soon as we can. These are very little things such as audio control and misspelled words, etc. If you see anything really waaaaaay off, please let meknow.
6. At one point we had about 20 minutes of “overlapping lessons” with the Speedlite Crash Course. We redid some things and it is really about 8 or 9 minutes, and we need to update me pointing this out in the intro.
Im very proud of the Lighting Crash Course. It is one of my best yet!
Im excited to hear what you guys think, so please feel free to comment or email me any reviews you have. Im looking forward to hearing from you!
Purchase Michael’s HIGHLY Anticipated Lighting Crash Course:
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PS- I wonder who will be the first to buy it? Im SO excited to finally get this thing out there for you guys!
Just added MA DVD #7 to my collection! Can’t wait for the download to finish!!!!!
I just did! I am going to leave it download overnight. I cannot wait to watch it!
Bought my DVD/Download Combo. It’s downloading now. Thanks M. I’m sure its gonna be Awesome!
Woo Hoo, Purchased!
Arel you ever going to do your videos in Blue-ray?
Thanks Michael. Been waiting a long time for this one.
Downloaded the complete 7.94 GB and have already seen parts of it. This is quantity combined with great quality, indeed. Thank you for being such a great mentor. Happy days!
was I first? 🙂
Just ordered mine, 45.00 is way to cheap, I would have paid 100.00 without thinking, but I guess the majority out there are too cheap to pay that and don’t understand "hard work" and would just rather pirate the dvd if it were being sold at a higher price.
Michael,
I am very much looking forward to your Lighting Crash Course. I downloaded it this morning but Win Zip keeps giving me an error message: "Cannot open file. doesn’t appear to be a valid archive"
Any ideas? Thank you.
prob me since i been monitoring the blog for the past 2 days like a stacker… part one 20% downloaded so far 😀
Just got the download!!!!
@ David- We believe this to be something with Win Zip itself and are looking into it now. Do you have another unzipping program? Like Rawr zip for example?
Awesome! Saw your post on Facebook and immediately bough it. Downloading as we speak. Great job in splitting them in those sizes. Will convert to DVD format and burn immediately!! :0)
@David – Your downloads did not complete and were interrupted. Same here. Look at the downloads page and compare the file sizes. They’re pretty big. The four I downloaded only came to about 600MB each so I knew they didn’t complete for me. If not completed, you can’t unzip them.
A few more notes: I would try to do this over a "Hard wire" not wifi. Many users have been running into issues with Wifi. Also, Look for an SD version to appear tonight.
– If you are still having issues, email us! support@michaelthemaven.com and we have some other options.
Superb! I am downloading as I type this. I did miss the time to be the first, nevertheless I am extremely excited about it. I have been awaiting this DVD for quite a while now. Michael, I do feel that $45 is way too low!!! Specially considering the combo option… I felt like awaiting the price rise before ordering, but then I have been waiting for this for quite a while 🙂
I ordered the Lighting Crash Course DVD/Download last night and have watched several lessons today. This is great training and you did great Michael. I will learn a lot from this course. You are a great teacher and the lessons are put together nicely. I appreciate seeing the process and how adjustments are made. Great work!
just did a whopper of a purchase from MA training dvds.
I must say a Big Thanks from CANADA
Tried downloading over wifi with my mac and I am getting decompression error messages…
@ Prashant- Hi there- A few tips: Parts 1-4 of the LCC are High Def (over 7GB of files), downloading over wifi will be problematic, a FAST hard wire connection will work better. 2- You may want to download parts 5 & 6 first, they are the entire video in Standard Definition. 3- If you have any more questions, email my assistant directly: support@michaelthemaven.com– he will be able to respond much more quickly as I only check comments here once a day. Thanks for your support!
Was out travelling when this announcement was made – I’m quite excited for this one. Thanks for your work Michael! 🙂
I finally watched the complete course!!! The course totally worths every penny and more!!