I just finished listening to the episode the other day with the Stereo bug… It was weird at first, but then sorta fun… Like having Kerry in the car on my left and David on the right talking back and forth to each other like I wasn't there (for the most part)…

Anyways keep up the great work. I love getting the inside look at the wedding business. I've shot a few weddings and portraits pro-am style and loved it. I would love to do it full time, but it would take quite a while to switch careers and get up to a livelihood income. So for now, when I can't shoot the wedding I get a kick out of being the Uncle Bob with better gear than the photog (Although knowing the pain Uncle Bobs can be I do stay in the background with the long lens photojournalism style).

It's been a while (and long overdue) since you've done a show on weddings with just the 2 of you. I am curious to know if you are doing off camera lighting at weddings now. I sorta recall that you bounced lights a lot (including off reflectors outdoors… brilliant). For the formals in particular do you bring studio lights, put strobes on lightstands, bounce off a wall/ceiling, or go all natural with fast glass and high ISOs?

Also, getting the bookings are great, you'll have to let us know how well it works. I imagine you may get a couple of cancellations from the less than serious couples, but even then if you get your 90% closing (possibly higher since they've already met you once) on the rest… Then you really have found a key ingredient to the secret sauce.

Hope you guys have a great season.

Wow, that wall/ceiling combo sounds like it would have given you fits with color cast and everything else. I suppose a lightsphere or one of the newer light scoop devices could have helped, but yeah I don't envy you there.

I've been pretty fortunate to be able to get away with Bounce Flash, or a fast prime with good white balancing (although you have to be careful switching between the two since the flash is way off from the custom balance). After a lot of reading at Strobist I'm starting to put my 430 and 580 on lightstands with umbrellas controlled by the STE2 transmitter. I've been getting pretty good results, but I do go back and forth in my head over getting a set of monolights… The cons are a set would be as much as a body (or half a 5D II =) or high-end lens, they don't sync past 1/250 on my camera and you need to find an outlet or carry around battery packs. The pros are just as clear… The modeling lights and I'd love to use them outside during a midday wedding formals, underexpose the sky for those rich blues while giving the subjects that smooth and perfect exposure. Oh well dilemmas. Thanks for the reply, I also take the boy scout motto of "Be Prepared" to heart when it comes to photography.