Joe McNally BLOG

Hello everyone!

If you're looking for some cool lighting advice and ideas, here's a link you can't ignore: Joe McNally Lighting Blog Joe came here last November and gave a workshop on location lighting. He is one of the great Masters, friends with Strobist author and many other master Photographers. He is planning to come back here this year for another workshop, but due to his busy schedule we do not have a date just yet. If you guys are interested, I can show you some of the images that were taken during the workshop last November in class. He is not just a great photographer but also a truly gifted teacher. VPW has ordered copies of his book, which should be one of the most interesting reads on the subject.

By the way, Joe just emailed me this morning that one of the pictures he took during our workshop here is on the top of his blog. You have to refresh the page a few times to load images into the header, but sure enough the image of Syx Langemann comes up! Syx has been teaching with VPW for over 2 years, and was helping out on Joe's workshop. The image was taken around the corner from our Gastown studio, in an alley. Equipment was a Profoto Pro 7B battery strobe with a small softbox. Light was dialed up to key-shift by about 1.5 stops (the flash overpowered the sunlight by 1.5 stops). Syx was posing with his skateboard, dressed in a white leather motorcycle suite...