Current Author Promotion: The Book Has Landed!!!!!! The white truck trundled up to my studio on Monday and delivered my four “Author’s advanced copies” of Minimalist Lighting, Professional Lighting Techniques on Location.  From cover to cover the book looks amazing.  The folks at Amherst Media did a great job with the design and the layout.  I’ve been showing it around to fellow photographers and they’ve all given me the “big thumbs up!”  The cover price of the book is $34.95 but for a limited time (during presale) you can reserve the book at Amazon.com for only $24.95.  This in not just a volume of my greatest hits with a little copy thrown in.  There are tons of “how to’s” and examples with diagrams to show just how shots were done.  There’s a ton of information about using portable flashes indoors and out and much more.  Click this link Amazon.com and you’ll be directed to the book.  When you’ve read it please take a moment to email me at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it and let me know what you think.

My second book, Studio Lighting on a Budget, is just about wrapped up and should be out in early Spring of 2009.  For more information about book signings in Austin and the surrounding areas please check on my website at www.kirktuck.com

Kirk studied Electrical Engineering, English and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.  Began teaching in the college of fine arts at UT in 1981.  Left the University in 1984 to become the director and creative director of a regional advertising agency in Austin, Texas.  The agency was Avanti Advertising and Design.  We did retail advertising for the first "category killer" book store,  Bookstop, Inc.  Their 124 stores were purchased by Barnes and Noble in 1987 and I took advantage of the sale and transition to leave the advertising agency and begin a career as a freelance photographer.