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Archive 2013 · If you've never used a beauty dish, I suggest you start. :D

  
 
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p.1 #1 · p.1 #1 · If you've never used a beauty dish, I suggest you start. :D


Single 22in PCB Beauty dish!

HQ - http://500px.com/photo/52041286




Nov 13, 2013 at 05:16 AM
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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · If you've never used a beauty dish, I suggest you start. :D


Lovely! I just bought a Westcott Rapid Box and it seems to be a reasonable facsimile of the look.


Nov 13, 2013 at 08:43 AM
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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · If you've never used a beauty dish, I suggest you start. :D


Nice


Nov 13, 2013 at 12:12 PM
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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · If you've never used a beauty dish, I suggest you start. :D


Very nice. I had a BD that got pushed in the back of the storage room. Started using it again a couple months ago. I really like the look.


Nov 13, 2013 at 12:37 PM
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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · If you've never used a beauty dish, I suggest you start. :D


Great light quality. Was this with a diffuser or grid? And is this the silver or white dish?


Nov 13, 2013 at 01:56 PM
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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · If you've never used a beauty dish, I suggest you start. :D


I have a couple softboxes; what's better about a beauty dish? Is it the catchlights? That's one factor I can think of...


Nov 13, 2013 at 03:41 PM
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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.



Nov 13, 2013 at 03:57 PM
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p.1 #8 · p.1 #8 · If you've never used a beauty dish, I suggest you start. :D


Thanks, Evan. My Lastolite EZBoxes diffuse the light about totally, but as you say, at the expense of lowering the level.

Can you recommend a particular one for use with a PocketWizard FlexTT5?



Nov 13, 2013 at 06:00 PM
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p.1 #9 · p.1 #9 · If you've never used a beauty dish, I suggest you start. :D


Nice lighting!

I am jumping onto the BD train too! Actually, I recently received my white Mola Demi in the mail a couple of days ago. I'm going to set it up and test it out soon.



Nov 13, 2013 at 06:31 PM
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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · If you've never used a beauty dish, I suggest you start. :D


Ernie Aubert wrote:
Thanks, Evan. My Lastolite EZBoxes diffuse the light about totally, but as you say, at the expense of lowering the level.

Can you recommend a particular one for use with a PocketWizard FlexTT5?


A particular beauty dish? That usually goes with a certain type of light (IE the Paul Buff Beauty dish used in the OP works with Paul Buff lights like Alienbees, although it might be adapted) rather than a certain type of trigger.



Nov 13, 2013 at 07:24 PM
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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · If you've never used a beauty dish, I suggest you start. :D


Ah - I have 430EX IIs. With the FlexTT5s, the Lastolite EZBox mounts are too short to fit a 580. Maybe B&H could point me at a particular product...


Nov 13, 2013 at 09:19 PM
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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · If you've never used a beauty dish, I suggest you start. :D


jolson72 wrote:
Great light quality. Was this with a diffuser or grid? And is this the silver or white dish?


Just the white sock and its on a white BD



Nov 13, 2013 at 09:51 PM





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