Description:

After spending more than thirty years behind the lensùworking for National
Geographic, Time, Life, and Sports IllustratedùJoe 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 processùoften funny, sometimes serious, always
fascinatingùto demonstrate how he makes his pictures with these small flashes.
Whether heÆs 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:

• Part I Nuts ÆnÆ Bolts:
  • What I Useàand Why and When I Use It
  • A Little Bit of Dis and a Little Bit of Dat
  • Da Grip
  
  
• Part II 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 ôi-TT Lö
  • Up on the Roof
  • How to Light a Fence
  • Cheap Arena Lighting
  • Make the Sunrise
  • Light as a Feather
  • Father Pre-Flash
  • The ôKiller Flick of Lightö
  • 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 æEm Dano!
  • It DonÆt 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 III Two or More:
  • Show the Tattoo! Or, The Remarkable Rehabilitation
  • of the Notorious Bubbles
  • GellinÆ
  • 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
  • ItÆs Right There on Paper
  • Shadow Man
  • Faces in the Forest
  • Dynamic Dancing
  • GettinÆ 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 IV Lotsa Lights
  • How to Give Birth to a Speedlight
  • A Great Wall of Light
  • Northern Light
  • The Tree of Woe
  • How to Build a Backyard Studio
  • DonÆt Light It, Light Around It
  • GoinÆ Glam and ThrowinÆ Sparks
  • And Now for Something Completely Different
  • Beach Light
  • Plane, But Not Simple
  • RollinÆ with Pride of Midtown
  • Appendix: WhatÆs This Button Do?
  • Index