The Hot Shoe Diaries: Big Light from Small Flashes (Paperback)

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.

攝影，一切都與光線有關。在攝影鏡頭後方度過了三十多年的時間，曾為《國家地理》、《時代雜誌》、《生活》和《運動畫刊》工作的喬·麥克納利對光線了如指掌。他知道如何談論、塑造、著色、控制和引導光線。最重要的是，他知道如何利用小型熱靴閃光燈創造光線。

在《熱靴日記》中，喬帶你走進幕後，坦率地分享他在許多精彩圖像中的照明解決方案。喬使用尼康Speedlights閃光燈，讓你了解他未經審查的思考過程-有時有趣，有時嚴肅，總是迷人-以展示他如何使用這些小型閃光燈拍攝照片。無論他是在長城上拍攝體操選手、在沼澤中拍攝短吻鱷還是在時代廣場上拍攝急速行駛的消防車，喬都使用這些閃光燈創造出令人驚艷的光線，使他的照片生動起來。