Eat your shots (Not So Serious Shot)

Eat your shots, originally uploaded by Venn Diagram.

Just messing about, inspired by a shot from Mark Hathaway.

Decided to have a go myself and see how it all went.

Lesson #1: A single flash in the gob doesn't give much light, but a second 'external' flash can mess up the illumination.

Lesson #2: When the flash in your gob goes off, it's quite hot. THAT was a little shocking...

Lesson #3: Those flash heads are pretty big, I had a tough time...

Lesson #4: The Canon Wireless Lighting System can cope with lighting this? Go figure...

Strobist: One 430 EXII in the mouth (group A), one 430 EXII (group B) on the windowsill way 6' away with a full CTO slapped on for good measure (probably a mistake, set the camera to "flash" white balance and now I'm a bit orange). One 580EX on-camera, acting as the master unit but not flashing.

Flash ratio A:B 8:1, master unit set to +0 compensation. Still getting to grips with the Canon WLS, so not sure what other data would be useful. Think I had the flash set to high-speed sync, too, but might be wrong about that. :-)