The Hot Shoe Diaries
Subtitle: Creative Applications of Small Flashes
Publisher: New Riders Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Indianapolis
ISBN-13: 9780321580146
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
Table of contents: pagenum: xiii
title: This Is Not the Manual; label: I
title: Nuts ’n’ Bolts; pagenum: 5
title: What I Use…and Why and When I Use It; pagenum: 32
title: A Little Bit of Dis and a Little Bit of Dat; pagenum: 41
title: Da Grip; label: II
title: One Light!; pagenum: 48
title: A Place to Put the Light; pagenum: 50
title: Up to Your Ass in Alligators; pagenum: 53
title: Good Bad Light; pagenum: 56
title: A Light in the Doorway; pagenum: 58
title: The Swamp, Revisited; pagenum: 63
title: Tune in to Station “i-TT L”; pagenum: 69
title: Up on the Roof; pagenum: 72
title: How to Light a Fence; pagenum: 77
title: Cheap Arena Lighting; pagenum: 80
title: Make the Sunrise; pagenum: 82
title: Light as a Feather; pagenum: 86
title: Father Pre-Flash; pagenum: 89
title: The “Killer Flick of Light”; pagenum: 95
title: How to Light an Elf; pagenum: 99
title: Make the Available Light Unavailable; pagenum: 102
title: Put Stuff in Front of Your Lights; pagenum: 105
title: Dad!; pagenum: 108
title: 80 Plus 20 Equals Good Light; pagenum: 112
title: Lacey Light; pagenum: 115
title: Strobe Strategy; pagenum: 118
title: Smoke and Windows; pagenum: 121
title: Hakeem the Dream; pagenum: 127
title: FP Means Good DOF; pagenum: 129
title: Flash in Real Life; pagenum: 137
title: Light ‘Em Dano!; pagenum: 141
title: It Don’t Gotta Be Human to Light It; pagenum: 146
title: The Lady with the Light in the Lake; pagenum: 151
title: One Light in the Parking Lot; pagenum: 155
title: One Light in the Window; pagenum: 158
title: One Light in the Garden; label: III
title: Two or More; pagenum: 162
title: Show the Tattoo! Or, The Remarkable Rehabilitation of the Notorious Bubbles; pagenum: 168
title: Gellin’