I've been observing a self-imposed ban on buying any new camera gear for a few months now, but yesterday I caved in and ordered Gary Fong's Lightsphere II diffuser for a wedding next week.

I've had my eye on one for a while now and after trying various other diffusion methods I came to the conclusion that, short of attaching a brolly to my flash or lugging a strobe around, the LSII will be the best way to light portraits when I've got to do a gazillion of them in one day with unpredictable backgrounds and ceilings.

The importer assures me that I'll have it in the first half of next week. I'll post some test shots when it arrives. I'm really hoping that I'll have it in time for some portraits of children that I'm doing next week but at least I can strobe those if it doesn't arrive in time.