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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Revet" data-source="post: 225009" data-attributes="member: 17612">I hear you Geoff, unfortunately I'm the youngest of the 10 siblings and out of town so I have little say in the planning of this event.  In till I offered to take the photo a week ago, it would have been with taken with a small digital point and shoot camera.  I am sure I can do better.Saying that, I can still use a little help with the most likely best position of the 4 flashes, keeping in mind I have to have the SB-700 on my hot shoe to act as commander.  This info will provide me a starting point in my test shots at the banquet hall.  I can tweak it from there.  To review, I will have two 600's, my 700 and an 800.  I wish I had more time to play around on Sat but I don't.From what I have learned so far I see two possible scenarios for lighting as many as 66 people:One - use all the flashes, without bounce, back my the camera and shoot high to try and avoid shadows and to give me less depth in the shot.  I'm sure this will give me plenty of light but we have the shadows and harsh light going on.Two - use my 700 on camera (still shooting from a ladder) as a fill flash and then trying to bounce the other 3 up closer to the group.  This will give me more even light and softened shadows.  If this works, I'm still unsure of the best position of the 800 (with the 700 on my camera and the 600's closer to the front probably a third of the way or more from the center of the group).  Since the 800 is the most powerful, It would be nice to use it as the main central light with the 600's lighting the outer edges of the group.  I'm just not sure how to do this because I would have to keep the 800 back by the camera to keep it out of the picture at which point I'm not sure bouncing it will do much.  Hope this question on the 800 makes sense.</blockquote>

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