How do you guys shoot the bouquet toss?

I have shot this one with 24-70mm it has some motion to the flower and facial expression from the bride and waiting girls.

Shot at : F-stop f/4.5, exposure 1/60sec, ISO400, focal length 24mm

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Arman's photo shows the problem of using just one flash... the background's quite dark. You can fix it up in ACR using the adjustment brush, or in Photoshop using layers.

tim wrote in post #9167886
Arman's photo shows the problem of using just one flash... the background's quite dark. You can fix it up in ACR using the adjustment brush, or in Photoshop using layers.

True, Gary Fong speciality

This was shot with his LS?

Armans Photography wrote in post #9168197
=Arman's Photography;9168197]Tr​ue, Gary Fong speciality

sapearl wrote in post #9168267
This was shot with his LS?

Lithsphere

I believe you know what happened then. The LS did an ok job with the foreground bride, but killed off at least 1-2 stops of output to the "receiving" line.

You had a tough environment here with a single flash. Bare bulb, slightly angled to the ceiling would have helped a little bit more, but that far back wall put you at an unfortunate disadvantage for lighting.

Armans Photography wrote in post #9168345
=Arman's Photography;9168345]Li​thsphere

sapearl wrote in post #9168381
I believe you know what happened then. The LS did an ok job with the foreground bride, but killed off at least 1-2 stops of output to the "receiving" line.

You had a tough environment here with a single flash. Bare bulb, slightly angled to the ceiling would have helped a little bit more, but that far back wall put you at an unfortunate disadvantage for lighting.

True and true , might be better with white card extended, but than like you said the wall is to far back

...You have a 5D II. Push it up to ISO6400 and shoot f/2.8. 5+ stops of light and better mix of ambient - You could even afford to quadruple your shutter speed and still get 3+ extra stops of light (8x light gathering). ISO400, f/4.5? What a waste.

With a single light source the best chance of relatively even lighting was to boost ISO and open aperture, and bounce off the wall (and slightly ceiling) to his left.

sapearl wrote in post #9168381
I believe you know what happened then. The LS did an ok job with the foreground bride, but killed off at least 1-2 stops of output to the "receiving" line.

You had a tough environment here with a single flash. Bare bulb, slightly angled to the ceiling would have helped a little bit more, but that far back wall put you at an unfortunate disadvantage for lighting.

The Lightsphere wouldn't have change things much. Bounce flash would've had much the same result, direct flash may have worked better but would've looked pretty bad. Bouncing off a wall to the left may have worked, as the difference between the subject distances would be smaller, if there was a white wall there.

tim wrote in post #9168656
Bouncing off a wall to the left may have worked, as the difference between the subject distances would be smaller, if there was a white wall there.

Or a 2nd strobe to the right and bounced off the ceiling maybe?

RT McAllister wrote in post #9168998
Or a 2nd strobe to the right and bounced off the ceiling maybe?

Yeah multiple light solutions are easy, it's the single light case that's difficult.

If you have two flashes you don't need to bounce, it's wasteful during the very fast-paced bouquet toss. Shooting direct (with off-camera flash) from a good distance (for evenness of light distribution) at low power gives the shot and fast recycle times.

That was actualy shot with 40D and 430EXII before I got 5D and 580EXII, there was no wall to the left or right, it was pretty much in the middle of banquet hall, to the left I had probably 70 feet to the wall and to the right about 50, pillars also to small to bounce.