VIDEO Joe McNally Control of Light

Joe McNally and I met a few years ago in Venice Italy, we enjoyed five days shooting with off camera flash.

The image showing two contemporary dancers together at the end of my dance section were taken then, not using flash opting for the stage lighting.

Joe is highly in demand as a shooter, equally as well known for his workshops that take him around the world.

When we met he was in the middle of writing his first book "The moment it clicks" that turned out to be a best seller, highly recommended, simple and easy to read with some of his most striking images.

Work the scene and towards your best shots.

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Joe McNally The Moment it Clicks. photography book

Joe McNally The Moment it clicks.  photography book is a must read.

If you are after just one book to keep with you to help make sense of how to approach making great pictures, this is it.

This book is a great insight to the mind of his experiences as a pro shooter, his decision processes and honesty about how some of his images happened.

Preparation and attitude are everything, being open to go with you heart sometimes, knowing when to let go of the pre made plans to go for something better, and some of his mistakes.

Scott Kelby and Photographer Joe McNally Critique session.

Scott Kelby is the world's most successful author of all things photoshop, Joe McNally is a photographer based in NY highly acclaimed and with a large following.

I posted yesterday about Scott Kelby and photoshopusertv, well here is Scott Kelby talking with photographer Joe McNally

Joe and I were in Venice Italy a few years back, he is an absolute master of small light shooting.

Joe's Bio
Joe McNally is an internationally acclaimed photographer who's career has spanned 30 years and included assignments in 50 countries. He has shot cover stories for TIME, Newsweek, Fortune, New York, Entertainment weekly, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, and Men's Journal. He has been at various times in his career a contract photographer at LIFE and, currently, an ongoing 23 year contributor to the National Geographic, shooting numerous cover stories for those publications. 

In this video Scott and Joe talk about portrait critique.

If you wish to buy a friend or loved one a book to inspire about photography, Joe's book "The moment it clicks" is the perfect gift, not only an easy read, this book gives an insight to how he approached taking pictures in the book, the story.

Joe was in the process of writing this book while we were in Venice.

What Joe does mention is prep and research, I covered this in my dance video blog 2, some points will keep coming up over and over.

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