When Joe McNally isn’t on assignment for the biggest-name magazines and Fortune 500 clients, he’s in the classroom teaching location lighting, environmental portraiture, and how to get the shot at workshops around the world. These on-location workshops are usually reserved for a handful of photographers each year, but now you can learn the same techniques that Joe shares in his seminars and lectures in a book that brings Joe’s sessions to life:
The Hot Shoe Diaries: Creative Applications of Small Flashes.
In this book, Joe delivers the definitive guide to flash. He starts with the basics and how to get started and then moves on to techniques for using really simple approaches (one light, two light).
The book contains a discussion of what’s in the camera bag lighting-wise, gadgets, field survival, light shaping tools, approaches, and more. All along the way he imparts his photography wisdom and gets the reader to move on past their fears, showing them examples of disasters and how to recover. Each section contains straight talk and a run-down of what can happen on location.
The 272-page paperback is published by New Riders Press and will be available on March 22, 2009. You can pre-order it now from Amazon.com.
This article was last modified on December 14, 2022
This article was first published on February 13, 2009
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