Nikon D810 - The Power of Imagination "The Bedroom"

Joe McNally takes his active imagination to a new level with a Halloween gone awry in this photo shoot. Watch Joe work through a complex lighting scenario yielding spooky fun! A little girl stays up past bedtime, reading a scary story. Then, out of the darkness of her room, a shimmery woodlands creature comes alive from her painted wall mural. What might happen next?
Thanks to an amazing crew: flawless production by Lynn DelMastro, brilliant body painter Anastasia Durasova who transformed our lovely model Tanya Sinkevica into the creature living in the wall, hair stylist Jerome Cultrera, prop stylist Katherine Hammond, and terrific mural painting by Dana Heffern. Music licensing by Triple Scoop Music. TripleScoopMus....
#halloween #joemcnallylighting #nikonD810.

[@petergunndetective]

That is really a nice image. Thanks Joe. Always fun to learn from you.

[@monre4892]

Fantastic! Great Joe

[@melliesmith]

You da Man! Thank you Joe for your vision, your talent, your skill, your efforts and your willingness to share with us.

[@Paulinodiazlorenzo]

Genial trabajo e impresionante foto realizada!!

[@ValiRossi]

Wow! Amazing.

[@HiHai]

This video is simply stunning.

[@6pistons]

Awesome!!!!

[@ernestolondero]

Excellent!!!

[@jpdj2715]

Iconic picture, is what we get here. Maybe not for the general public, but it should be for every photographer. Technically, it shows a clever mix of big fat studio flash combined with speedlights. I'd argue that all the indoor light could have been done with SB-800/SB-900/SB-910 where there are Profotos - but that's just a matter of using what you already have. Just those 3 Profoto 2,400 W.s pack strobes outside mimicking moonlight at broad daylight - brilliant (I would equate that to about 96 SB-910 speedlights, btw.) The whole production is a great collaboration. Joe's modest, slightly victimy, report of how he is sailing through Scylla and Charybdis and manages to get past that - not sure that is necessary but it makes clear to outsiders that serious work was done. There is no "chance" here. Remember the noble words of Louis Pasteur "luck favors the prepared mind" (associated with accepting a 1907 Nobel prize), or Eisenhower's variant to that: "luck is where preparation meets opportunity." Here, preparation enforced the result and bad luck was really mitigated. PPPPPP: prior preparation prevents p... poor performance, fellas on an island between my neck of the woods and the US would say.

[@photography1439]

thank you so much knowledge and motivation that can be obtained from the video thanks Warm greetings photography

[@jaimel2037]

Wicked work Joe!

[@ChoicesHabitsAttitudeLuck]

What a photographer has to go through just to get that perfect picture. Always love Joe Mcnally

[@Wes_Jones]

It's so fascinating to see just how much effort is needed to create such a beautiful photo. Thanks for sharing.

[@FrederickDunn]

Thank you as always... for inspiration at just the right time! Lots of moving parts here... with a great end result! Much appreciated....

[@marksuban1943]

Love it! Great BtS!

[@SartorFotografia]

Wow!!!!!!!!

[@dobermansnp]

A do love see an artist like you working, creating the magic. Thanks for the upload!!!

[@fashionmogul6016]

wonderful

[@_Just_Some1]

Just WOW! Thank you so much for sharing.

[@JoeMcNally]

_Jane here_ *Happy Halloween* You know when Joe thinks about a sweet little girl reading a book in her room, there has to be a twist, right? This time the twist is that the lovely mural on her wall just so happens to have come alive. Just this _one_ night. Here's the making of The Power of Imagination: The Bedroom: Nikon D810 - The Power of Imagination "The Bedroom" #joemcnally #nikonphotography #nikonambassador #halloween #happyhalloween #photographylightingtips #creativephotos #nikonambassador #nikonnofilter #behindthescenes

[@ortega80]

Amazing, thank you for sharing

[@SartorFotografia]

Fantastico... stupendo

[@labellastudio396]

You are a Genius...I am in awe of the work you do and the way you go about capturing your shots

[@sixxfive100]

Wow! This video just reminded me how far I've got to go

[@joemasucci6753]

What a great photograph. Concept and execution.

[@thomascampbell3223]

A true master at work. Great image.

[@SatanicJamnic]

Thanks Joe for this amazing video. I love your work. You are my biggest inspiration.

[@severionz]

Loves the final shot and the music. Thanks!

[@lancelemke9382]

Its just awesome Joe, thanks for the sharing.

[@edortafernandez7076]

Great and inspiring work!! Thank you Joe!

[@davidalanmedia]

Great Joe, thanks for the behind the scenes glimpse of this shot.

genial, it's interesting and beautifull.... scarring but fascinating place to sleep and rest

[@SvenKrumke]

Another great video! Hope you get another book out soon. The previous ones have been great inspirations!

[@tony40400]

Brilliant, really enjoyed that , cheers

[@eliasroth]

Great Video. Thanks. I just wish I could afford all those lights... :P

[@bartradv]

My inspiration

[@davidpatterson3080]

Great work as usual Joe, love it

[@TomasRamoska]

Speechless well done Joe..

[@mikee1s]

Amazing shot, Joe!

[@canadiansecularhumanist6642]

Halloween again ..... Great videos! Glad to have discovered you on KZbin.

[@valentinaschiogarcia]

Congratulations, perfect!

[@jasonfunk6140]

from the process to result, very interesting

[@garybaris139]

OMW, stunning!!

[@gewglesux]

I have the Imagination of a footstool. I love Photography. I would not have thought half of this stuff... Thanks Joe!

[@alexanderluperon824]

super!!!! men

[@alextakazawa]

amazing... congratulations

[@genesis_fellig]

SEI UN GRANDE!!!!!!

[@maggyfish]

Genius

[@puma0065]

love it :)

[@JODIESTATE]

this is so cool

[@muviewsic]

so great!!!It seems you are a profoto ambassador now? haha. I love my profoto light.

[@sunilajmeri2490]

good work sir

[@colincadle]

Excellent as always. What was the image commissioned for Joe? Book, advert? Very interested to know.

[@th3317]

can anyone tell me, how to make the outdoor light become blue without post proces? not sure i catch it in the video. thanks

[@_Just_Some1]

How are you firing the SB speedlites? SU-$ setting? Thanks.

[@eyebidder]

I think the girl should have looked up and to the left....would have loved to see the shots they did not choose.

[@UsmanMehmood09]

what lens was he using?

[@BBROPHOTO]

Nikon 24-70

[@heros3093]

乔叔叔 我太崇拜你了！！！了不起！

[@Kumachanchan]

I loved this, however, PLEASE be more professional and wear a mike. It is amateur to do it with possible ambient noise. I am not being negative, just realistic. And drop the hiphop music, I almost turned if off after 5 seconds of it. otherwise awesome!

[@artsmodelstation9396]

All that work and honestly it’s just a nice photo. Doesn’t wow me or that I would buy as a print and hang on my wall. Pretty sad though for all that effort from the photographer and collaborators. I’m sure they are talented but it just doesn’t work.

[@15lastone]

Please speak to the Mic, bad bad sound

[@javiercaldas]

excelente

[@jahanbin]

nice look behind the scene. here is $1 tip *****

[@SwitiCarma]

This is a what a top professional comes up with? Stick to lighting and stay away from the fantasy. I'm amazed Nikon doesn't recoil from this depiction of a middle-aged man using a half-naked model to indulge his limited sense of expression. Anyone with a full frame camera and a $20,000 budget should be able to come up with something a lot more compelling and curious than this piece of inanity, and I mean this visually as well as lyrically. And do something about the audio recording: the absurd swishing around the voices is a devastating indictment of incompetence on set. I'd like to see what Joe can do with a single camera and no crew and a couple of flashes with a deadline to tell a story, something with some depth, not adorned with this faux Madison Avenue elaboration. Is he capable of something brilliant? Prove it.