{"id":1929,"date":"2012-04-24T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.wordpress\/?p=1929"},"modified":"2016-05-10T08:49:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T12:49:50","slug":"the-secret-to-using-a-beauty-dish-for-flattering-portrait-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/the-secret-to-using-a-beauty-dish-for-flattering-portrait-photography\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret to Using a Beauty Dish for Flattering Portrait Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the many choices for lighting portraits, the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/pages\/glow-beauty-dishes\"> Beauty Dish<\/a> offers a dramatic light that wraps around your subject&#8217;s face, providing a classic look to your portrait photography.<\/p>\n<p>Portrait photography lighting has four major characteristics: color, direction, quantity, and quality. Using lighting modifiers, such as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/pages\/glow-beauty-dishes\">beauty dish<\/a> with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/g\/Build_Your_Studio_and_Save\">monolight <\/a>or power pack and head systems, lets you control the light\u2019s directionality and quality.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/pages\/glow-beauty-dishes\">beauty dish<\/a> is a different kind of light modification device because it doesn&#8217;t diffuse light. It\u2019s a metal reflector that uses its parabolic shape to distribute light towards a focal point, and is an alternative to a softbox. It wraps light around a subject, producing an effect somewhere between direct flash and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/l\/Lighting-and-Studio\/Light-Modifiers-and-Reflectors\/Softboxes-and-Accessories\/Glow~Softboxes\">softbox<\/a>, and adds drama when used with accessories like a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/l\/Lighting-and-Studio\/Light-Modifiers-and-Reflectors\/Softboxes-and-Accessories\/Softbox-Accessories?sel=Accessory-Type_Egg-Crates-Grids\">grid.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/pages\/glow-beauty-dishes\"> beauty dish<\/a> is used in portrait and fashion work to generate a concentrated pool of light and produce its characteristic round catch light in the subject\u2019s eyes. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/pages\/glow-beauty-dishes\">Beauty dishes<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/pages\/glow-beauty-dishes#go\"> are available in various configurations<\/a>, with Glow versions having a round metal shield that blocks light from the flashtube and fills the dish with soft, indirect light. A translucent fabric diffuser (\u201cstrobo-sock\u201d) is included with Glow beauty dishes to provide additional softness with white-lined dishes or cut the contrast from silver-lined models.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Flashpoint Beauty Dishes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/l\/Lighting-and-Studio\/Monolights-and-Strobes\/Monolights-Accessories\/Glow~Reflectors?sel=Compatible-With_Flashpoint|Size_17-quotes_22-quotes_28-quotes\">Glow offers six different kinds of beauty dishes<\/a>\u00a0for Flashpoint\u00a0 including <a title=\"Flashpoint Beauty Dish silver coated\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/l\/Lighting-and-Studio\/Monolights-and-Strobes\/Monolights-Accessories\/Glow~Reflectors?sel=Compatible-With_Flashpoint|Size_17-quotes\">17<\/a>, <a title=\"Flashpoint 21-inch beauty dish white coated\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/l\/Lighting-and-Studio\/Monolights-and-Strobes\/Monolights-Accessories\/Glow~Reflectors?sel=Compatible-With_Flashpoint|Size_22-quotes\">22<\/a>, and <a title=\"Flashpoint Beauty Dish silver lining\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/l\/Lighting-and-Studio\/Monolights-and-Strobes\/Monolights-Accessories\/Glow~Reflectors?sel=Compatible-With_Flashpoint|Size_28-quotes\">28-inch <\/a>models, each available with either white or silver lining. For this article, I used the <a title=\"Flashpoint 27-inch beauty dish white lining\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/glbd28wfp.html\">28-inch beauty dish with white lining<\/a>. The white interior produces softer light and the silver creates a snappier look. While <a style=\"line-height: 20.8px;\" title=\"Flashpoint Beauty Dish silver lining\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/l\/Lighting-and-Studio\/Monolights-and-Strobes\/Monolights-Accessories\/Glow~Reflectors?sel=Compatible-With_Flashpoint|Size_28-quotes\">28-nchs<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0sounds small, but it is a big hunk of metal, so make sure you have enough shooting space to use it and a place to store it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/alc_images\/article13670_0.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait Photography Beauty Dish sample image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you read my article <a title=\"What Everybody Ought to Know About The Shape Of Soft Boxes For Flash\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/What-Everybody-Ought-to-Know-About-The-Shape-Of-Softboxes-For-Flash\">\u201cWhat Everybody Ought to Know About The Shape Of Soft Boxes For Flash\u201d<\/a> please note the beauty dish in these comparison photos was placed in the same spot for this series photographs. This allows you to compare the results from different kinds of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/l\/Lighting-and-Studio\/Light-Modifiers-and-Reflectors\/Softboxes-and-Accessories\/Softboxes\">Soft Boxes<\/a> to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/pages\/glow-beauty-dishes\">beauty dish<\/a>. With this set-up, I felt the dish needed some fill and placed a <a title=\"Flashpoint 32-inch 5-in-1 reflector\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/fppr5132.html\">32-inch Glow 5-in-1 reflector<\/a> at camera left, as shown. \u00a9 Joe Farace.<br \/>\n<a href=\"Portrait Photography Beauty Dish sample image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/alc_images\/article13670_1.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait Photography Beauty Dish sample image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With a <a title=\"Flashpoint 32-inch 5-in-1 reflector\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/fppr5132.html\">32-inch Glow\u00a05-in-1 reflector<\/a> at camera left, the 27-inch beauty dish mounted on a <a title=\"Flashpoint II 620M, 300 Watt Second AC DC Monolight \" href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/fp620m.html\">620M Flashpoint monolight<\/a> (at half-power) creates soft, even light that your portrait subjects should like. Camera was Canon EOS 5D with <a title=\"Canon EF 135mm f2.8 SF Soft Focus AutoFocus Telephoto Lens\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/ca13528afu.html\">Canon EF 135mm f\/2.8 Soft Focus lens<\/a> and an exposure of 1\/125 sec at f\/16 and ISO 100. \u00a9 Joe Farace<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/alc_images\/article13670_2.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait Photography Beauty Dish sample image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next I attached the \u201cstrobo-sock\u201d that\u2018s included to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/pages\/glow-beauty-dishes\">Glow beauty dish<\/a>. It creates an even softer, more wraparound light that produces a bit of a glow making it an excellent choice for glamour or boudoir-type portraits. The exposure was the same: 1\/125 sec at f\/16 and ISO 100. \u00a9 Joe Farace<\/p>\n<p>;are useful accessories for any studio lighting system, and when mounted on a beauty disk (or soft box for that matter), they alter the shape and intensity of the light output, focusing the light more directly on the subject. A grid provides a wider beam than a snoot so it\u2019s useful for focusing light on a particular part of the subject or narrowing the amount of light that falls on them.<\/p>\n<p>Because a grid, in effect, blocks some of the light output, it produces less light so you\u2019ll need to either crank up the power of your light source or increase the camera\u2019s ISO setting to maintain the same aperture as an un-gridded shot. Attaching a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/searchsite\/default.aspx?searchinfo=glbdg*\">Glow Grid<\/a>\u00a0to any of their beauty dishes is a simply a matter of snapping a few clips to its edge; ultimately mounting flush with the front of the dish. A grid adds flexibility to using a beauty dish that along with its fabric diffuser lets you produce three different looks from a single light source.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Shooting With Grids - AdoramaTV\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/Shooting-with-Grids-AdoramaTV\">Watch this video to learn more about using grids.<\/a><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/alc\/wp-content\/uploads\/alc_images\/article13670_3.jpg\" alt=\"Portrait Photography Beauty Dish Grid sample image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Attaching a grid to the beauty dish produces more drama and directionality to the photograph creating a completely different mood. It also takes away some of the light so you\u2019ll need to increase the exposure. If I were delivering this portrait to a client, I would also add some soft focus to the image to make it more flattering while maintaining all the drama a grid provides. Canon EOS 5D with <a title=\"Canon EF 135mm f2.8 SF Soft Focus AutoFocus Telephoto Lens\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/ca13528afu.html\">Canon EF 135mm f\/2.8 Soft Focus lens<\/a> and an exposure of 1\/125 sec at f\/9 and ISO 100. \u00a9 Joe Farace<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Joe Farace is the author of the book \u201cStudio Lighting Anywhere\u201d which is available from Adorama<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the many choices for lighting portraits, the Beauty Dish offers a dramatic light that wraps around your subject&#8217;s face, providing a classic look to your portrait 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