Category: Beauty Dish

This modifier comparison shows off over 100 different lighting setups

John Aldred

Flash modifier comparisons can be extremely useful things. Without having to get up out of the comfort of our chair, we can very quickly and easily see how different shapes and sizes of modifier affect how light falls on our subject. Here’s one we discovered by photographer Michael Quack and the team at Visual Pursuit […]

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5 Tips to get great light for outdoor portraits

John Aldred

Shooting outside in bright sunlight scares many photographers. I always see people saying to not go out and shoot portraits when the sun’s high in the sky. To wait until golden hour and shoot in the sunset, or only go out on a cloudy day. Well, I think that’s nonsense. There’s so much you can do with bright […]

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This deep 24″ collapsible beauty dish folds down to just 6″

John Aldred

Designed by portrait photographer Joel Grimes, the new 24″ Rapid Box Beauty Dish from Westcott seems to tick all of the boxes when it comes to location photography.  It’s small, lightweight, and can also double up as a regular 24″ round softbox by adding the diffuser panel on the front. Having lightweight and portable kit is important when […]

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Profoto unveils collapsable beauty dish that won’t hog up space in your camera bag

Gannon Burgett

36 years ago, Profoto released a lighting accessory they called the Softlight Reflector. Today, we call this creation a beauty dish, thanks to its unique design that softens light in the perfect manner for portraits. Today, Profoto has announced a new and improved version, the OCF Beauty Dish. And this time, it’s collapsable, making it […]

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Make Your Own Beauty Dish From a Metal Mixing Bowl

John Aldred

We’ve featured a few DIY Beauty Dishes in the past, from the very cheap to the super cheap, but few of those builds would blend into a professional studio quite as well as this one. In this video, French photographer, Antony Gomes, and the team at Shootr show us how they built theirs. Starting with an Ikea […]

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