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The Hot Shoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)
by Joe McNally (Author)
Textbook Details
* Paperback: 320 pages
* Publisher: New Riders Press; 1 edition (March 13, 2009)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 0321580141
* ISBN-13: 978-0321580146
* Dimensions: 9.1 x 8 x 0.8 inches
* Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
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Textbook 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.
The Hot Shoe Diaries Review
Yesterday I just finished an intensive hands on, real, on set, training workshop with Joe and models on a windy rocky beach and it was worth every penny. I asked him if his brand new book, “Hot Shoe Dairies” he’d mentioned was a “how to” book and he said it was a few hundred pages of exactly what we worked on only more in depth and the result of years of mastering the small portable flash. So if the book is even half of what we learned it is worth twice the price. The Nikon creative lighting system is amazing and has NO EQUAL. I will order as soon as I finish this. Jock Goodman
Joe McNally’s photo secrets were kicked out of the closet by the skeletons a long time ago. That’s great news for those of us who have become infatuated (and infuriated) with the use of small flash units. Joe’s latest book ‘The Hot Shoe Diaries’ tells all. There’s never been a book on flash photography that covers the subject so thoroughly, so beautifully and so humorously. I’m certain that `HSD’ will reign as the undisputed champion on flash photography for a long time.
The first thing to know about ‘HSD” is that even Joe has a hard time taking himself seriously. Joe repeatedly demonstrates his understanding of where he stands in the universe by filling `HSD’ with memorable photos – such as the self-portrait where he uses a chicken as a lightstand. Joe’s humor is what sets `HSD’ apart from other photo books. It is what protects us from mind-numbing concepts, such as the “Inverse Square Law”.
Joe starts with the basics: gear and simple flash. He moves on to talk about one light shots. And two light shots. And lots-a-lights shots. He talks about where to put the lights and what to put between the lights and the subject. He shares a lifetime of stories. He inspires and encourages.
As with his first book, `The Moment It Clicks’, Joe fills the covers of `HSD’ with amazing and beautiful photos. These are the heart of `HSD.’ It’s one thing to talk about flash photography. It’s entirely another to demonstrate it again and again with stunning images.
`HSD’ is for photographers of all levels – novice to expert. Plan on reading it more than once. I guarantee that every time you do, you’ll pick up something new.
It’s no secret that Joe is a Nikon guy. Nikon terminology is used throughout the book. If you shoot something other than Nikon, think of it like an American talking to a Brit [if "elevator" = "lift", then "Auto FP" = "High-Speed Sync" and "Rear Curtain" = "2nd Curtain"]. Does this mean that ‘HSD’ is Nikon-specific? Absolutely not. As a lifelong Canon shooter, I’ve no hesitation in recommending this book to shooters of all denominations. The ideas and illustrations are universal.