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Travel light with plenty of light! | The Hot Shoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes | Joe McNally

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	• The Hot Shoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes Joe McNally New Riders Press, 2009 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 162 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

If you HATE Scott Kelby's sense of "humor"....

You might like Joe McNally.

Unlike Kelby, who spends more time trying to be funny than giving you, the paying customer/reader, the information you need - Joe McNally gives you the goods without making you wade through an endless sea of babbling.

The info he presents is straightforward and more or less easy to apply to your own real-world situations. Granted, you may never actually use half of what's in the book. But it still makes for an interesting read.

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It's definitely worth reading if you want to expand your flash experience. Although the author uses the Nikon system you can apply the concept to your flash system. Joe McNally writes like he talks, but I like it and it makes for easy reading.

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Travel light with plenty of light!

I'm still reading the book, but I can tell that there's a lot of great info about using hot shoe flashes! A must read form anyone thinking about buying photo strobe lights.

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Amazing book, not just for NIkonians but mainly for us!

This book is great! Joe McNally really gets into the down and dirty of how he does what he does. The images are stunning and the accompanying explanations of how he created them are very informative and well thought out. His writing style is kind of outrageous at times, but it makes the reader feel like they are having a conversation with Joe. I came away from this book with an immediate desire to go throw some gels on my Speedlights and get crankin' on some new ideas! He really is inspirational. This book is the type that you read cover to cover on first inspection, and then refer to for a lifetime of learning. I would venture to say that this book has improved my photography work almost overnight. I just shot a wedding last weekend, and used gels for color (not just color correction) for the first time in that high-stress environment....all thanks to Joe and his tips in this book. The photos from the wedding are some of the best I've ever taken. Thank you, Mr. McNally!

BUY THIS BOOK if you are at all interested in off-camera flash.

If you are a Nikon owner, it is a must-have. Seriously. Don't cheat yourself. USE that CLS system! Joe will teach you how.

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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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