Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

When Joe's not on assignment for the biggest-name magazines and Fortune 500 clients, he's in the classroom teaching location lighting, environmental portraiture, and how to get the shot at workshops around the world. These on-location workshops are usually reserved for a handful of photographers each year, but now you can learn the same techniques that Joe shares in his seminars and lectures in a book that brings Joe's sessions to life. In this book, Joe delivers the definitive guide to flash. He starts with the basics and how to get started and then moves on to techniques for using really simple approaches (one light, two light). The book contains a discussion of what's in the camera bag lighting wise, gadgets, field survival, light shaping tools, approaches, and more. All along the way he imparts his photography wisdom and gets the reader to move on past their fears, showing them examples of disasters and how to recover. Each section contains straight talk and a run-down of what can happen on location.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Part I Nuts 'n' Bolts
• What I Use...and Why and When I Use It
• A Little Bit of Dis and a Little Bit of Dat
• Da Grip
• Part II One Light!
• A Place to Put the Light
• Up to Your Ass in Alligators
• Good Bad Light
• A Light in the Doorway
• The Swamp, Revisited
• Tune in to Station "i-TT L"
• Up on the Roof
• How to Light a Fence
• Cheap Arena Lighting
• Make the Sunrise
• Light as a Feather
• Father Pre-Flash
• The "Killer Flick of Light"
• How to Light an Elf
• Make the Available Light Unavailable
• Put Stuff in Front of Your Lights
• Dad!
• 80 Plus 20 Equals Good Light
• Lacey Light
• Strobe Strategy
• Smoke and Windows
• Hakeem the Dream
• FP Means Good DOF
• Flash in Real Life
• Light 'Em Dano!
• It Don't Gotta Be Human to Light It
• The Lady with the Light in the Lake
• One Light in the Parking Lot
• One Light in the Window
• One Light in the Garden
• Part III Two or More
• Show the Tattoo! Or, The Remarkable Rehabilitation of the Notorious Bubbles
• Gellin'
• Quick Rigs for 30-Second Portraiture
• Do You Have a Bedsheet?
• Window Light Is a Beautiful Thing
• Smooth Light
• When in Venice
• Dancer in the Ruins
• It's Right There on Paper
• Shadow Man
• Faces in the Forest
• Dynamic Dancing
• Gettin'
• Fancy
• This One Goes to Eleven
• Some Light Conversation
• Groups!
• Lighting Kit for the Creepy-Guy-in-the-Alley Shot
• Let There Be Light!
• Part IV Lotsa Lights
• How to Give Birth to a Speedlight
• A Great Wall of Light
• Northern Light
• The Tree of Woe
• How to Build a Backyard Studio
• Don't Light It, Light Around It
• Goin'
• Glam and Throwin'
• Sparks And Now for Something Completely Different
• Beach Light
• Plane, But Not Simple
• Rollin' with Pride of Midtown
• Appendix: What's This Button Do?
• Index