Okay, okay, I admit it, I bought more cam­era gear. This time it was a flash, an umbrel­la, and a com­bi­na­tion stand to hold the two. The flash is a Canon 580EX II, the most impor­tant fea­tures being:

• Can act as mas­ter flash to trig­ger my 420EX in slave mode
• Can turn off the flash to use bet­ter aut­o­fo­cus assist beams
• Easy-to-use con­trol dial and set but­ton
• Maximum guide num­ber of 58
• Sweeeeet lock shoe stand

I was able to test it out the rig on Andrew and Alex, who hap­pened to be in town that week­end. Out of all my friends and acquain­tances, I’ve known Andrew and Alex the longest, since ele­men­tary school. We got to hang out for a night and catch up before they had to take off. I can still tell them apart from face and voice, although it got quite a bit hard­er.

It was a good prac­tice in doing por­traits of two peo­ple, and fig­ur­ing out how var­ied the same scene can look with the main light source at dif­fer­ent posi­tions. Overall, I’m very pleased with how they turned out.