Originally posted by MrApollinax Not Pentax specific but Joe McNally is featured in the Green section of the USA Today (Money section) on page 3B. Strobist also gets a mention. Pretty good write-up in the in-set blurb about not needing >$1K worth of lighting gear to get good results....
I own McNally's new book and have read about half of it so far. Yes, it's very Nikon-centric and I find that somewhat off-putting. It's not that he mentions his Nikon products at every opportunity, it's that he almost never acknowledges that his reader might be using anything else, and he very seldom talks about general principles.
The other thing I don't like about the book is the silly style, which is kind of like Scott Kelby's silly style but even more childish. I don't mind a writer being entertaining or writing with a breezy, friendly style. But the [insert subject here] for idiots style wastes space that could be used for real information. McNally may talk about a shot for three pages - and a third or more of that text sometimes is just taken up with useless blather.
Nevertheless, when he's not being silly, he's often saying stuff that I find pretty interesting and I'm glad I bought the book. It's mostly "case histories" - short chapters about particular shoots with particular kinds of lighting challenges, almost all of which he dealt with using small flash units rather than fixed lighting. He's big on the use of multiple flash units triggered wirelessly - and he seems to be big on using wireless pre-flash triggering rather than radio triggers.
Natural light photography and flash photography are two different challenges. They seem to me as different as visual flight rules (VFR) flying and flying with instruments.
Will