About This Item
Why settle for ordinary when you can capture extraordinary with the Glow 17" Silver Beauty Dish for Flashpoint Mount This high-quality light modifier is renowned for creating striking portraiture and fashion images, making it an essential tool for professional photographers. The Glow Beauty Dish employs a unique double parabolic reflector system, expertly designed to achieve distinctive diffusion properties. The end result is a lighting effect that beautifully bridges the gap between a direct flash and a softbox. It gives your images a wrap-around look, similar to a softbox, but with enhanced contrast and a more dramatic, directed beam. The silver finish of this 17" beauty dish not only delivers higher output but also creates more contrast, bringing out the intricate details of your subject. This makes it an ideal choice for head and shoulders portraits, dramatic figure studies, or subjects in tight spaces where softboxes and umbrellas can't deliver the desired effect. The design of the Glow Beauty Dish includes a small opaque reflective cover suspended directly over the light source. This prevents direct light from hitting the subject, instead, the light bounces backwards off the small interior disk and floods the larger bowl of the beauty dish. This results in a wider cast of softer light than a standard reflector, and significantly softer than the harshness of a speedlight. The position of the small center reflector cap is adjustable, allowing you to control the spread to the large bowl and accommodate tall or high wattage modeling lights. The beauty dish also includes a diffusion fabric panel, known as "socks". This translucent diffusion circle fits snugly over the rim of the dish, softening the ring of focused light, lowering contrast, and softening the edges of shadows. Photographers often use the 17" to 22" beauty dish on monolights, flash heads, and speedlights for flattering people shots. It's especially effective for sculpting facial features, creating beautiful shadows, and producing captivating catch lights. The Glow Beauty Dish is available in two interior coatings. The silver finish, as featured in this model, delivers higher output, creates more contrast, and brings out more detail than its white counterpart. The white interior version minimizes hot spots, smoothes skin tone, and reveals less texture. The optional Glow honeycomb grid is a powerful addition to any photographer's lighting arsenal. By covering the aperture of the reflector with the disk, you gain more control of a light source's beam, and feather the hard light for an attractive shadow. This strong directionality can be used to add high key depth for fashion images, and emphasize the model's facial structure as well as the eyes, lips, nose, and chin. In conclusion, the Glow 17" Silver Beauty Dish for Flashpoint Mount is not just a lighting accessory, it's a tool for creating art. It's durable, versatile, and designed to help you capture the best possible images.
