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Photographer Joe McNally knows how to take a portrait. He is a true master of lighting. If you’ve never heard of him, he was LIFE magazine’s staff photographer for four years and is the man behind the acclaimed “Faces of Ground Zero - Portraits of the Heroes of September 11th” series that helped raise over $2 million for September 11th relief efforts.

Lighting gear maker Elinchrom has cranked out a 24 page brochure (available as a PDF) for their equipment that has Joe singing the praises for all their products. The whole things revolves around a photo shoot Joe did of a gorgeous Kazakh model. As long as you take all the marketing hype talk with a bit of a grain of salt, the photography and some of the photos of the lighting setups are pretty dang cool.

I highly recommend you take the ten minutes or so to look through this download if you haven’t already seen it. It’s well worth the read.

My favorite shot in the whole thing? The one where Joe puts the strobe in another section of the “L” shaped room and shoots it through two windows at the model. Makes for a pretty cool shot.

I originally saw this yesterday on Strobist. While I’m not one who likes to simply regurgitate what I read on other sites to you all, this was just a little too good to pass up. I didn’t want anyone left out in the cold on this one. Thanks to David Hobby at Strobist for letting his readers know about this download.