Book description
When it comes to photography, it’s all about the
light.
After spending more than thirty years behind the lens—working
for National Geographic, Time, Life, and
Sports Illustrated—Joe McNally knows about light. He
knows how to talk about it, shape it, color it, control it, and
direct it. Most importantly, he knows how to create it...using
small hot shoe flashes.
In The Hot Shoe Diaries, Joe brings you behind the scenes to
candidly share his lighting solutions for a ton of great images.
Using Nikon Speedlights, Joe lets you in on his uncensored thought
process—often funny, sometimes serious, always
fascinating—to demonstrate how he makes his pictures with
these small flashes. Whether he’s photographing a gymnast on
the Great Wall, an alligator in a swamp, or a fire truck careening
through Times Square, Joe uses these flashes to create great light
that makes his pictures sing.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- This Is Not the Manual
- Part One: Nuts ‘n’ Bolts
-
Part Two: One Light!
- A Place to Put the Light
- Up to Your Ass in Alligators
- Good Bad Light
- A Light in the Doorway
- The Swamp, Revisited
- Tune in to Station “i-TTL”
- Up on the Roof
- How to Light a Fence
- Cheap Arena Lighting
- Make the Sunrise
- Light as a Feather
- Father Pre-Flash
- The “Killer Flick of Light”
- How to Light an Elf
- Make the Available Light Unavailable
- Put Stuff in Front of Your Lights
- Dad!
- 80 Plus 20 Equals Good Light
- Lacey Light
- Strobe Strategy
- Smoke and Windows
- Hakeem the Dream
- FP Means Good DOF
- Flash in Real Life
- Light ’Em, Dano!
- It Don’t Gotta Be Human to Light It
- The Lady with the Light in the Lake
- One Light in the Parking Lot
- One Light in the Window
- One Light in the Garden
-
Part Three: Two or More
- Show the Tattoo! Or, The Remarkable Rehabilitation of the Notorious Bubbles
- Gellin’
- Quick Rigs for 30-Second Portraiture
- Do You Have a Bedsheet?
- Window Light Is a Beautiful Thing
- Smooth Light
- When in Venice
- Dancer in the Ruins
- It’s Right There on Paper
- Shadow Man
- Faces in the Forest
- Dynamic Dancing
- Gettin’ Fancy
- This One Goes to Eleven
- Some Light Conversation
- Groups!
- Lighting Kit for the Creepy-Guy-in-the-Alley Shot
- Let There Be Light!
- Part Four: Lotsa Lights
- Appendix: What’s This Button Do?
- Index
Product information
- Title: The Hot Shoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2009
- Publisher(s): New Riders
- ISBN: 9780321580146
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