I shot a wedding recently with my able colleague Ken and we decided to stay late to make the most of the beautiful grounds of the Bowden Hall Hotel in Gloucester and try a 'twilight' shot of the bride and groom, Vicky and James.
Using Ken as my 'couple', I set up two 580EXll's on stands with brollies, one ten feet to the right and one to the left and slightly behind him. I used the ST-E2 trigger and played with the ratio control until I got something I liked, roughly 2:1 in favour of the right-hand strobe. Keeping the shutter speed on 200th sec (manual) I then played with the aperture until I got the background 'twilighty' enough. The ST-E2 ably adjusted the flashes to illuminate the subject as I went along.
When I was happy with the look of the light, we rushed off to find the happy couple and plonked them into the shot, and fired away. This meant they got a great picture with minimal hanging around, so they could go straight back to partying.
