Glow - 28" White Beauty Dish for Elinchrom Mount

When it comes to capturing striking portraiture and fashion images, the Glow 28" White Beauty Dish for Elinchrom Mount stands out as a superior light modifier. Its unique diffusion properties, achieved through a double parabolic reflector system, offer a blend of direct flash and softbox effects. This combination results in a wrap-around look that delivers more contrast and a dramatic directed beam, akin to a softbox but with a more pronounced impact.The white finish of this beauty dish enhances soft output, creating more contrast and highlighting the intricate details of your subject. It's designed to mount onto most brands of studio flash and monolights via speedrings, which are sold separately. The 28" white version is particularly versatile, ideal for everything from head and shoulders portraits to dramatic full-figure studies. It's also perfect for tight spaces where traditional softboxes and umbrellas may not be suitable.The design of this beauty dish includes a small opaque reflective cover suspended directly over the light source, preventing direct light from hitting the subject. The light bounces off this small interior disk and floods the larger bowl of the beauty dish, resulting in a softer, wider cast of light than a standard reflector can provide.The position of the center reflector cap is adjustable, allowing you to control the spread of light to the large bowl and accommodate tall or high wattage modeling lights. The beauty dish comes with a diffusion fabric panel, or "sock," which fits snugly over the rim of the dish. This softens the ring of focused light, lowers contrast, softens shadow edges, and increases the spread of light, creating beautiful catch lights and a natural window light aura.The Glow 28" White Beauty Dish is a favorite among photographers for its ability to flatter subjects, sculpt facial features, and create beautiful shadows and catch lights. It's particularly popular among glamour and sports photographers, who use it to enhance curves, muscles, and texture.The larger 28" diameter model can produce a beam with more 'reach', scattering more focused light to treat larger subjects and areas. When used in a vertical tower array of 2 or more, it accentuates a model's full figure. The interior of the Glow Beauty Dish is available in two coatings: a silver finish for higher output and more contrast, and a pure white interior that minimizes hot spots and smoothes skin tone.The optional Glow honeycomb grid is a powerful accessory for the artificial lighting photographer. It covers the aperture of the reflector, giving you more control over the light source's beam and softening the hard light for an attractive shadow. The varying degrees of the grid can create effects from a broad 40-degree soft pool of light with little spill, to a narrow 20-degree spotlight glow with defined shadow borders. This strong directionality can be used to add high key depth for fashion images, emphasizing facial structure, eyes, lips, nose, and chin. The 30-degree version can achieve both effects of the 20-degree and 40-degree, but with less light control.