The Aviation Photography Accelerator
One focus at a time.
Your best work, guaranteed.
What is the Aviation Photography Accelerator?
The Aviation Photography Accelerator is a programme designed to get your best ever results. Each month the whole community locks onto one Focus Subject, learns it live with our pro instructors, and puts it into practice together. It starts this August with Editing. Twelve months from now, you won't recognise your own photography.
One weekend of workshops is great… but it's not a plan.
You watch the tutorials. You have the gear. And yet the shots in your head still aren't the ones on your card. The thing that closes that gap isn't another one-off course. It's a monthly programme of doing the right thing, in the right order, taught by the pros, alongside aviation photographers just like you. That's exactly what the Accelerator is.
This isn't a passive library you log into.
It's the hottest burner-lighting, rivet-popping thing in aviation photography right now.
Every month follows the same easy-to-follow plan, so you always know exactly what to work on, and you're never doing it alone.
One Focus Subject
On the 1st of each month, the whole community focuses on a new photography subject, tailored to aviation. August is Editing. No more guessing what to work on next, everyone is literally on the same page.
Learn it live
A live workshop with our pro instructors who live and breathe this stuff. Dive deep into the subject, get your questions answered, and engage as a community. Can't make a session? They're always recorded and yours to keep.
Put it into practice
Tutorials, checklists and monthly challenges built around the focus subject. Post your results and progress in our dedicated private community, The Merge.
Get real feedback
Accelerate your progress through constructive feedback from a community that loves the hobby as much as you, and wants to see you succeed.
Monthly Focus Subjects, each one tailored to aviation photography, so that the community accelerates like never before.
You start where everything changes: Editing.
Most photographers already have the shots. They're sitting on hard drives right now, a little flat, pretty dull, and not quite the image that was in your head. Focus Subject One is Editing because it's the single fastest way to transform the photos you've already taken, before you even take another shot.
By the end of August you'll have a repeatable editing workflow that makes your existing images pop. More confidence. Save time… And images you can't believe are yours.
A clear runway to your best work.
The greatest hobby in the world? YOU BET! One Focus Subject a month, tailored to aviation photography, from your first edit to your finest season yet.
You'll also get everything else we teach.
All included in the Accelerator.
The day you join, you'll also get instant access to our entire library of aviation photography resources. No drip-feed, no teasers… the whole lot, yours from day one… alongside the guided Accelerator programme that keeps you on track.
Bought separately, the four masterclasses alone come to £786, and it's the same training we previously sold in our £495 Academy. You get all of the above, AND the guided Accelerator programme, PLUS everything we add, for £497 a year, or £47 a month.
A live workshop, every month, with our pro instructors
Learn from our team of pro instructors who want to see you achieve your best. You'll see exactly how they do it, live, every single month, and answering your questions in the room. Recorded and yours to keep, so you never miss a session. This alone is worth the cost.
Exclusive gear discounts at Clifton Cameras
When you join the Accelerator, you'll qualify for significant member-only pricing on cameras, lenses and accessories through our retail partner, Clifton Cameras. The saving on a single purchase can cover the cost of the Accelerator for an entire year!
We are the Centre of
Aviation Photography.
For six years, COAP Online has been the home of aviation-photography education, helping photographers worldwide get their best ever results. From first-DSLR newcomers to those whose work hangs two feet wide on the wall, we have seen it all.
Meet Rich & Tom.
Rich Cooper brings a 30-year career as a pro aviation photographer, in print, media and online, and has been on the RIAT Photo/Media Team for over 25 years. Tom Dalton has 20 years of Lightroom and Photoshop experience, and is a specialist in colour science and creative photography. Together, they are your hosts and instructors every single month.
Let's do this together.
The wealth of teaching materials for photography and photo editing available to members are truly second to none. Equally important is the knowledge and the interaction of the COAP Online community.
Since becoming a member my photography and Lightroom skills have got so much better. The platform is a friendly, social, and safe environment to learn, hone and improve.
COAP Online is a fantastic community, full of aviation photographers supporting other aviation photographers. The online learning has introduced me to new techniques I'd never have come up with myself.
Join the Aviation Photography Accelerator.
Get the guided Aviation Photography Accelerator programme with monthly live workshops with our pro instructors. Plus get instant access to everything we've ever created, including our 150+ tutorial library! Cancel any time.
Do the work, or pay nothing
Give month one everything: do the Editing focus, come to the live workshop, post one edit in The Merge. If your photos don't look meaningfully better by the end of August, one email and we refund every penny, and you keep everything you've downloaded. The only way to lose is to not turn up.
Cancel in one click
No contract, no notice period, no phone calls, no awkward emails. Stay because your photography is getting better, not because you're stuck. Leave whenever you like, and you're welcome back any time.
Everything else you might be wondering.
When does it start?
What exactly do I get on day one?
Do I have to keep up with the cohort?
Isn't this just the same tutorials repackaged?
Can I cancel any time?
I'm a beginner / I'm well advanced, is it for me?
Your best work yet.
Twelve months from now, you'll be shooting with more confidence, with a folder of your best-ever work and a community that watched you get there.