Joe McNally
Joe McNally
Joe McNallyis an American photographer who has been shooting for the National Geographic Society since 1987...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth27 July 1952
CountryUnited States of America
photography light editors
John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.
photography views together
If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.
photography journey careers
A career in photography is a journey without a destination.
photography light sprinkles
You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.
photography passion the-end-of-the-day
We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day. We go forward, despite the uncertainty. Because this is an act of love and passion, which defies reason and prudence.
photography heart way
Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.
photography dream art
No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.
photography location cameras
Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.
fan places trying unusual
I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point.
basement darkroom eliminated immediacy instant intense love notion replaced technology
Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.
closed digital good people pictures seasoning shop technology thrown wide
Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some of the pictures are bad, some of them are good, and many of them need some seasoning and direction.
attached battered giant lens looked rattled truck view
Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it.
crank faint
Photography used to be not for the faint of heart. Its rigors would weed out the not-so-committed pretty quickly. You had to crank the f-stop ring yourself!
hands shooting lists
When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.