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Gorgeous portrait and I love how you did the background! Happy Independence Day Joe!!
Great event yesterday in vancouver, well worth the trip from the Yukon!
Thanks
GB
Awesome! Keep heading east til you land in Boston. Loved The Flashbus Tour you did with Hobby and can’t wait for this one. Also looking forward to seeing you at NECCC next weekend as the keynote speaker. You rock!
Wow! Beautiful light. Full of dramaI love the minimalist setup.
love the cookie look on the seamless. awesome work as usual. happy fourth joe!
Attended Joe’s One Light, Two Light workshop in Vancouver. Great stuff!!! Joe was very informative as well as entertaining. Was amazed at the quality of photos produced with some small speed lights and simple modifiers. Looking forward to trying things out. The above shot of Shazmin was just one example of the quality Joe produced. Of course, having such a lovely model did not hurt either. Again, great job to everyone involved.
Joe
I got a Tech question about your post.
I have Elinchrom strobes and the wireless trigger that came with bx500ri . I have a sb900 too.
In reading your post how did you get all the strobes to fire with 2 kinds of flashes?
I have not been able too. Is it possible for me to use Nikon sb900 and the Elinchrom strobes at the same time?
Most kindly
Ken in KY
Beautiful shot. Great light fall off. But poor Shazmin seems a bit cold judging by the goosebumps on her arm 😉
Awesome Vancouver show Joe (and team!) – especially for someone getting over food poisoning! Enjoy the rest of your Canadian adventure – looking forward to the next tour – ‘Three lights, more’! And … ‘no fish for you’!
I love the mood of this shot!
One Light, Two Light
Just like you Light
Big light, small light
Love them all light
Use a tri-grip, bend your flash
Clear the door in case I dash
Half my lights are on a plane
Hate to come here, always rain
Decent crowd and pretty girl,
Maybe give 3 lights a whirl?
Getting edgy, need a fix
Heat up speedlights, maybe 6?
Clamshell lighting, shoot to white
God I hope we make our flight
6 lights running, getting hot
Really hope they don’t tell Scott
Made it through, Damn! what a day
Syx and Drew pack stuff away
Call to Annie, time to go
Joe McNally… WHAT A SHOW!
Beautiful!!! Do you ever take “bad” pictures? Geez… Makes me want a Deep Octa, BAD.
Joe, I can’t wait for this tour to come a little closer down south!
BTW, I know I’m not the only one that Googled “cucolris”. For thos of you like me, here’s the Wikipedia definition: In lighting for film, theatre and still photography, a cuculoris (occasionally also spelled cucoloris, kookaloris, cookaloris or cucalorus) is a device for casting shadows or silhouettes to produce patterned illumination.
Great day in Calgary! Thanks for sharing your infinite amount of experience. Though I think I might have to add some gear to the collection now.
Dave Berner
Amazing shot again (not to mention she’s beautiful :-)) – thanks for sharing Joe!
awwsome,the light is so smooth
Hey Joe,
Looking forward to your seminar this Saturday in Toronto. Your work rocks and you are an inspiration to all of us up and coming photographers.
Cheers
Looking forward to meeting you in Montreal next monday. If your work is an indication of your workshop, it will surely be worth it and thanks for coming to Montreal which is a place rarely visited by worthwile photographers.
Yahoo, he is coming to Montreal monday and i have my ticket
Save the planet, the only one with Joe Mcnally
The workshop was awesome, very fun and filled with good info. Aside from meeting you in person, my favorite part was seeing how you approach and work through a shot with TTL. Most of the work I do has been Hobby style dialing in my flashes manually from the start. Now I feel more TTL enlightened. Thanks again for stopping by Vancouver!
Joe,
Was this taken with a D800 or D4?
Any chance there could be a Flashbus tour in Canada?
Could be called Flash-Dog-Sled Tour
Enjoyed your Calgary stop greatly, Joe. It was an honour to meet you and I so appreciate you signing my book. Now I have to get one or two (or more) SB 910s.
Shazmin is such a wonderful model to work with, and she made my job easy…all I had to do was not screw up the picture. One of the pictures I took of her at your last Vancouver workshop is still my computer background.
Safe travels,
Kyle
What gorgeous light! How soft and creamy smooth.
great. congratulations.http://www.brutalrock.com
@ Ken – you put the SB900 into slave trigger (su-4) mode, and it will fire off the flash from the elinchromes.
Superb seminar in Toronto today. Joe wowed the crowd with great images and really made it look easy. ( except for the paint pole!)
He was just in Toronto.
If I counted right, there was 500 people there.
Nothing beats seeing a professional at work.
Thanks a lot for the experience and the anecdotes.
I was also at the Toronto session – terrific! Lots to see and learn, and an absolute riot to boot.
Thanks for this, Joe.
One more attendee at the Toronto session. Outstanding. You are an amazing teacher. I learned so much, I’m still sifting through all the information four days later. It was great to see the process of achieving that final shot, from start to finish, and how you deal with things when they don’t go as planned. That paint pole fixed or replaced yet?
Thanks for coming to town Joe!
Joe,
many thanks for posting and inspiring ….
I’ve a short technical question on this: Did you gel the Quadra flash inside the Octa box? If yes, what gel did you use?
Many thanks and greetings,
rKern
no gel, that’s pretty much the look of the frame out of camera….best, joe
Hi Joe!
I have a question for you. What focusmode do you use when you shoot fashion? AF 3D tracking or normal continuously AF or manual focus?
Any one else have any tip? Feel free to answer.
Regards,
Sebastian
Hi back…tough to say. I vary the modes according to situation. In portrait work, say at a studio, I use single cursor, and prioritize focus. W certain kinds of motions, I do use tracking and select the focus patterns that would seem to work for the subject matter….best, joe
Hi joe …..welcome to Dubai climbing the Burj khalifa the word’s Tallest Building photography..Dubai top view..Beutiful shoot. I love the mood of this shot great Congratulation ..
Thanks for coming to Dubai joe
Deep octa 70 or 100?
Deep Octa, I believe…