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The Hot Shoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes [Paperback]

Joe McNally
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Mar 3 2009 0321580141 978-0321580146 1
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.

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About the Author

JOE McNALLY is an internationally acclaimed American photographer and longtime photojournalist. His most notable series is “Faces of Ground Zero—Portraits of the Heroes of September 11th,” a collection of giant Polaroid portraits. He also photographed “The Future of Flying,” the first all-digital story for National Geographic. His award-winning work has appeared in numerous magazines and, in 2008, Joe wrote the critically acclaimed and bestselling book The Moment It Clicks.

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Pro knowledge about portable flash April 17 2009
By LGM
Format:Paperback
Having seen McNally present his portfolio slideshow several times, I'm a big fan of his work, and this book is an order of magnitude better than his previous book "The Moment It Clicks". The technical information is helpful when deconstructing each shot (as every enthusiastic photographer should be doing all the time), and the anecdotes are interesting.

Part One of the book shows the consideration that each professional photographer must grapple with before every set-up, and provides a knowledge base that is critical to success. As an experienced photographer, myself, I find plenty of information that took me years to learn by trial and error, and some that is new.

Most of the book presents large picture spreads with colourful writing describing the technical and environmental problems that he needed to overcome. These are interesting, and are technically pumped up versions of the previous book.

I'm not really crazy about the writing style ... too much fluff to get to the punch line of each pithy joke, and too colloquial in tone. The "Hey ... I'm from New York" thing is way overdone, and is even less funny than somebody trying to write in a Texas drawl, or Irish brogue. In fairness, he talks this way too, and I suppose it's a style that suits his purpose.

Overall, this is a good book for the knowledgeable photographer looking to advance his skill set with portable flash techniques, and for the imaginative neophyte who wants to consume every aspect of the medium.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Great read but Nov 28 2012
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I bought this book after being told it was a must read for all photographer who wish to experiment and understand speedlight lighting.

At some point the style get's a little bit heavy because off the writter's wandering and slang words; surely it helps creating a less formal tone and that guys is probably a really nice pal but this book could have used a more straight to-the-point tone to help us understand everything.

A few production shot and sketch are introduced to illustrate some picture and they help us photog. newbie to visualise how everything is arranged. These are great! I just wished they would have been (a lot) more of them because they add so much value to what's being said...

Some other review pointed that the whole book was really Nikon oriented and I couln't imagine that it would be that much. If you own a Nikon you'll get a lot of insight on which materiel to use or function to dial but for those of us who don't I am pretty sure he could have gone with more generic term (even being specific once at the begining) thus staying with notion rather than products none all of us use.

Don't misunderstand me, this book is a great and easy read and I learned a lot of key notions that I am excited to try on field but while reading it I couldn't help but feel like the writter was trying to hard to seel something to me.

Finally one of the greatest idea this book emphasize is that lighting and photography is more a cooking receipe that you adapt on the spot with all those available ingredients rather than a rigid formula... Food for thoughts
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book Mar 5 2013
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
It's a great book for people learning flash photography. He shows great photos and walks you through the process. It's easy to read.
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Most recent customer reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Learned a lot
Plenty of info, good stories. And a good reference when looking for ideas to shoot. Good price too. Recommended to portrait photographers.
Published 3 months ago by Tianxiao Zhang
4.0 out of 5 stars Great Book
As advertised another great Joe McNally offering!! I would recommend to all that are thinking about taking flash photography to the next level.
Published 4 months ago by Greg Balla
5.0 out of 5 stars What Have I Been Missing All These Years?
I have owned at least 3 speedlights at a time over the last 10 years. I never thought of using them in this fashion until picking up this book. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Canon Shooter
5.0 out of 5 stars An absolute must
You're a photographer and you don't have this book? You gotta be kidding!!!
Seriously, this book is filled with great advice over the use of speedlights! Read more
Published on Dec 7 2010 by denis morisset
3.0 out of 5 stars Good but really mostly for Nikon
A good book, worth purchasing but of most value to Nikon users. If you use a camera other than Nikon you get ideas but not the details of how to set up flash controls.
Published on May 8 2010 by R D
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best on lighting
McNally gives practical lighting advice for real situations and tell you how to do it. this is one of the best books on using speedlights I have read. Read more
Published on April 20 2010 by Norm U
4.0 out of 5 stars The Title Describes it All
Overall, I found this book very helpful in understanding the application of off camera flash units. Because the majority of the work I do involves on location editorial style work,... Read more
Published on Mar 3 2010 by Cole Bennett
5.0 out of 5 stars Very inspiring book
I loved this book!!

Let me start off by saying that I didn't like the writing style when I first started reading this book. Read more
Published on Jan 14 2010 by A. Photographer
4.0 out of 5 stars Get Into Joe's Head
First, the author is a brilliant photographer. And I love that the book is dedicated to the idea of small flash units (and my chosen brand nonetheless), instead of being about... Read more
Published on Oct 26 2009 by Joplinesque
4.0 out of 5 stars Good info, but Nikon focused and wordy
I don't mind the style of writing if it is a bit casual. Wish there were more lighting diagrams for the setups. Read more
Published on Oct 19 2009 by Kevin Segedi
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