Portraits with an Edge Featuring Photographer Joe McNally

The human face is as varied and expressive as any landscape, and light is what reveals its character. The right light can bring depth, beauty, and emotion to a portrait; the wrong light can leave even the most compelling subject feeling flat.

In this fast-paced demonstration, Joe McNally will transform a single subject through a rapid series of lighting changes, showing how subtle shifts in direction, quality, and intensity can dramatically alter mood, personality, and visual impact.

Join us for an engaging live demo and interactive Q&A that will deepen your understanding of portrait lighting and its creative possibilities.

Please Note: This is a don't miss in-person event that is also livestreamed on the Adorama Events YouTube channel.

Joe McNally is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning photographer whose prolific career includes assignments in nearly 70 countries. McNally is often described as: Authentic, articulate, an exceptional technical photographer whose varied skill set means he is called upon often for the “unusual” or “challenging” job. But no job is too big or too small for McNally because he loves photographing anything or anyone interesting in front of his lens. Joe McNally is also known world-wide for his unmatched visual creativeness and extraordinary imagination. He is calm under pressure and excels in the field whether it is a portrait of a celebrity or corporate CEO to an unwieldy fashion shoot with a crew of 60.

Joe McNally’s credit list includes FIVE covers of the National Geographic, (amongst an overall 15coverages for the magazine), SEVEN Covers of Life Magazine and FOUR successful Olympic coverages as he looks ahead to number FIVE with Paris 2024 approaching. McNally has also climbed the Empire State Building 4x and the Burj Khalifa tower 2x. A proud Nikon Ambassador, he is the rare photographer to make the bridge between photojournalism and commercial photography and has the distinct ability to come away with a photograph no matter the twist or turns he might encounter on assignment.

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