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The hot shoe diaries: big light from small flashes
2009, New Riders
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Cover of: The Hot Shoe Diaries
The Hot Shoe Diaries: Creative Applications of Small Flashes
2009, New Riders Press
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The hot shoe diaries: big light from small flashes
2009, New Riders
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Table of Contents

This Is Not the Manual Page xiii
I. Nuts ’n’ Bolts
What I Use…and Why and When I Use It Page 5
A Little Bit of Dis and a Little Bit of Dat Page 32
Da Grip Page 41
II. One Light!
A Place to Put the Light Page 48
Up to Your Ass in Alligators Page 50
Good Bad Light Page 53
A Light in the Doorway Page 56
The Swamp, Revisited Page 58
Tune in to Station “i-TT L” Page 63
Up on the Roof Page 69
How to Light a Fence Page 72
Cheap Arena Lighting Page 77
Make the Sunrise Page 80
Light as a Feather Page 82
Father Pre-Flash Page 86
The “Killer Flick of Light” Page 89
How to Light an Elf Page 95
Make the Available Light Unavailable Page 99
Put Stuff in Front of Your Lights Page 102
Dad! Page 105
80 Plus 20 Equals Good Light Page 108
Lacey Light Page 112
Strobe Strategy Page 115
Smoke and Windows Page 118
Hakeem the Dream Page 121
FP Means Good DOF Page 127
Flash in Real Life Page 129
Light ‘Em Dano! Page 137
It Don’t Gotta Be Human to Light It Page 141
The Lady with the Light in the Lake Page 146
One Light in the Parking Lot Page 151
One Light in the Window Page 155
One Light in the Garden Page 158
III. Two or More
Show the Tattoo! Or, The Remarkable Rehabilitation of the Notorious Bubbles Page 162
Gellin’ Page 168

Edition Notes

Gellin’. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Quick Rigs for 30-Second Portraiture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Do You Have a Bedsheet?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
Window Light Is a Beautiful Thing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Smooth Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
When in Venice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
Dancer in the Ruins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
It’s Right There on Paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Shadow Man. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
Faces in the Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Dynamic Dancing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
Gettin’ Fancy. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
This One Goes to Eleven. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
Some Light Conversation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
Groups! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Lighting Kit for the Creepy-Guy-in-the-Alley Shot. . . . . . . . . 231
Let There Be Light!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Part IV Lotsa Lights
How to Give Birth to a Speedlight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
A Great Wall of Light. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Northern Light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 248
The Tree of Woe. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
How to Build a Backyard Studio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Don’t Light It, Light Around It . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
Goin’ Glam and Throwin’ Sparks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
And Now for Something Completely Different…. . . . . . . . . . . 276
Beach Light. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Plane, But Not Simple. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283
Rollin’ with Pride of Midtown. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
Appendix: What’s This Button Do?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

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OL23136057M
ISBN 10
0321580141
ISBN 13
9780321580146
OCLC/WorldCat
232978423
Goodreads
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