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Archive 2012 · 22" Beauty Dish 15° or 30° Grid?

  
 
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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · 22" Beauty Dish 15° or 30° Grid?


Which do you guys find yourself using more? Subject will be portraits / car models.


Aug 18, 2012 at 10:16 AM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · 22" Beauty Dish 15° or 30° Grid?


Have both. When I use a grid, I use the 30 most of the time. I'm usually fairly close to the subject with a dish to begin with and there's quite a bit of loss of light intensity with the 15.

Jim



Aug 20, 2012 at 05:42 PM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · 22" Beauty Dish 15° or 30° Grid?


Jim, thanks!


Aug 20, 2012 at 07:15 PM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · 22" Beauty Dish 15° or 30° Grid?


I only own a 30 and use it all of the time .. a 15 would be pretty tight, almost a large spotlight.

Even with the 30 you can't adequately cover much more than a half length shot at optimal dish placement distance of about 3 feet. Once you move the dish away from the subject you will get wider coverage of course, but you also start to lose the unique BD lighting quality.



Aug 21, 2012 at 03:36 AM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · 22" Beauty Dish 15° or 30° Grid?


"Portraits" is a way-big field. I use a beauty light primarily for fashion/beauty-style headshots. Whether I use any grid or not depends on how tightly I need to control the lights area of coverage. I'm usually on location, so that's where it makes a difference: How tightly do I need to control the spread of light?

If I had a run of jobs where the answer was coincidently "really tight" for every location, then I'd wind up using a tight grid a lot that month. The next month, maybe not.



Aug 21, 2012 at 07:29 AM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · 22" Beauty Dish 15° or 30° Grid?


Thanks for the feedback!


Aug 21, 2012 at 11:03 AM
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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · 22" Beauty Dish 15° or 30° Grid?


30. Except you are in a studio with plenty of time on hand, without modelling light, 15 will take you a while to aim .


Aug 21, 2012 at 09:22 PM





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