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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · If you've never used a beauty dish, I suggest you start. :D | |
Ernie Aubert wrote:
I have a couple softboxes; what's better about a beauty dish? Is it the catchlights? That's one factor I can think of...
The classic benefit of a BD vs most other modifiers is that almost every modifier is hotter in the center than it is on the edges. Modifiers attempt to even out the light by adding layers of diffusion at the expense of power, in some cases achieving near perfectly even light. However, a BD is one of the few modifiers that inverts the hotness and has a dead spot in the middle with hotter edges. This means that a BD can be used in very close without creating an excessive hot spot on the closest part of the subject (typically face/forehead). Most classically, BD's are used in close, and some even have specifications such as focused for 2-3x diameter. Used further out, the "dead spot" effect disappears, and BD's become similar to other sources of similar size.
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