A beauty dish is a staple of many studio photographers’ lighting kits. This popular modifier creates a soft and flattering quality of light but with a bit more ‘pop’ and contrast than you get with a softbox. This versatile light modifier can transform with the 3 accessories covered in this video. A beauty dish can become more concentrated, specular, or even softer- it's about knowing the right accessories to use!
My Favorite Beauty Dish Accessories:
(1) Sock (aka Diffuser): Creates a softer quality of light and less specularity to the image. This is great for a bit more flattering light on the skin with rough textures or excess shine. The material for a sock is similar to the type of material in the front of a softbox that is intended to soften, smooth, and spread light.
If you don’t have a sock, try a diffusion filter to soften the light. It will have a similar effect and it attaches simply with gaffers tape.
*Note: Profoto offers a single diffuser for their beauty dish, though other brands have diffusion that is thicker/thinner to allow you to control the specularity of the light.
(2) Grid: A 25-degree grid helps you add contrast and drama to your light. In particular, it allows you to control the spread of light. Adding a grid reduces the area of coverage of the light, and makes the light fall off faster (making the background darker). This is a great way to layer your light by separately controlling the illumination on the subject and background.
(3) Frosted Plate: Typically a beauty dish will have a solid white reflective plate. Here we are switching out to a frosted glass plate. This takes your beauty dish and gives it a bit more punch. You’ll have more contrast and specularity.
With a white beauty dish, you will notice more specularity. With a silver beauty dish, you’ll notice a bit smoother gradient in the quality of light.
What is great about these accessories is that you can take a tool you already own (a beauty dish) and make it more versatile with some simple and (relatively) inexpensive modifications.
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Profoto D2
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Profoto Softlight Reflector (beauty dish) WHITE
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Profoto Softlight Reflector (beauty dish) SILVER
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Profoto Beauty Dish Grid
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Profoto Beauty Dish Diffusion Sock 1/3 stop
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Rosco Diffusion Filters
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Manfrotto Triflector
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Model: Annie Van Rickley @annievanrickley
Makeup: Joanne Gair @joannegair
Hair: Linh Nguyen @linhhair
Styling: Raytell Bridges @raytellbridges
Video: Samuel Bouret @samuelbouret
Educational resources (mentioned in the video):
Master Studio Lighting: If you want to learn more about the fundamentals of studio lighting, be sure to check out my incredible in-depth course Master Studio Lighting. It has helped hundreds and hundreds of photographers to completely transform their understanding of light! lindsayadler.photo/msl
Silver Vs. White Beauty Dish: Check out this video to see the differences between a silver and white beauty dish, in action!
• White vs Silver Beauty...
Frosted Plate:
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