Glow Foldable Beauty Dish With Bowens Mount (Silver, 40")
SKU: GLFBDS40
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About Glow Folding Beauty Dish
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Portable with quick setup
I like the flexibility of having beauty dish type lighting in a portable format. I used them recently for small group portraits on location with the white diffusion fabric covers. Even though space required the subjects to be close to the backdrop the shadows of the two lights I used the Glow dishes on were very soft and the skin tones were very nice. I would recommend them to anyone doing location photography.
Convenient Light Modifier
The modifier makes great light and I really enjoy the features such as the drawstring cinch around the speedring and on the carrying bag. The collapsible feature is great vs having to carry a solid beauty dish. Build quality could be slightly better but better than past Glow products I?ve used.
The Glow 40" Silver Folding Beauty Dish is a portable version of the light modifier famous for striking signature portraiture and fashion images. The quick to set up octagonal umbrella like assembly has all the advantages of the beauty dish effect without the problems of damage a typical metallic dish confronts with location travel. It has all the benefits of a metal beauty dish design without any of the drawbacks due to the delicate bendable dish. This folding unit is made for the road with sturdy fiberglass support rods for structural stability and fabric strength and serves as a great lighting solution in the studio as well.
Thislarger 40" Silver version of the series has more 'snap' than the white internal finish and serves best from head and shoulders portraits to dramatic figure studies or for subjects that are in tight spaces where softboxes and umbrellas can't do the job.
The unique diffusion properties are achieved using a double reflector system that softens the flash properties twice. The final effect has qualities that cross between that of a direct flash and a softbox, giving the image a wraparound look - like a softbox, but with more contrast and a more dramatic directed beam. This silver finish delivers higher output, creates more contrast and brings out more detail of your subject. The beauty dish design has a small opaque deflector cover suspended directly over the front of the light source, in the center of the beauty dish, preventing direct light from hitting the subject. The light then bounces backwards off the small interior disk and floods the wall of the larger bowl of the beauty dish, resulting in a wide cast ofsofter light. The resulting effect is gentler than obtainable from a standard reflector and much better than the harshness of a speedlight.
The folding beauty dish attaches onto the popular Bowens mount with the included speedring, but most brands of studio flash and monolights can easily use this beauty dish with separately purchased rings.
The included accessory for the Glow Folding Beauty Dishes is a diffusion fabric panel called a "sock". This is a translucent diffusion material, with a Velcro edgethat fits within the rim of the dish. By softening the ring of focused light that emanates from the reflector, the degree of contrast is lowered and edges of shadows are softer. The spread of light is greatly increased, with a loss of about 1 stop, with beautiful catch lights and natural window light aura.
Photographers use a 28 to 34" beauty dish on monolights and flash heads for flattering people shots, especially for sculpting facial features and creating beautiful shadows and catch lights. Glamourand sports photographers, which typically use a crisp type of lighting to enhance curves, muscles, and texture, use all sizes of theGlow Folding Beauty Dish. This 40" diameter model can produce a larger beam with more 'reach', overall scattering more focused light to treat larger subjects and areas as well. Used in a vertical tower array of 2 or more, the beauty dish accentuates a model's full figure with perfect head to toe coverage.
The interior of the Glow Folding Beauty Dish comes in two internal surfaces. This silver finish delivers higher output, creates more contrast and brings out more detail than its white counterpart. The pure white interior version minimizes hot spots, smooths skin tone and reveals less texture.
The optional Glow Folding Beauty Dish honeycomb grid is a powerful tool in the arsenal of artificial lighting photographer. By covering the aperture of the reflector with the disk, you gain more control of a light source's beam, and feathers the hard lightfor an attractive shadow, virtually eliminating spill from the rest of the body and the background. This strong directionality can be used to add high key depth for fashion images, and emphasis the model facial structure as well as the eyes, lips, nose and chin.
Glow Folding Beauty Dish Features
- Quick and easy larger folding beauty dish design
- Great for travel, location and studio
- Soft beauty light for fashion and portrait photography
- More dramatic contrast and tactile feel than softboxes and umbrellas
- All of the benefits of a metal beauty dish without the worry of damage
- No center hot spot
- Includes diffuser 'sock' for broader light spread
- Accepts honeycomb grids for extra beam control
- Interchangeable speedring adapters for popular flash reflector mounts
Warranty Information
This product has a limited warranty of 12 months.
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