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Examples with a Beautydish
Was thinking about getting a 22" beautydish. Anyone have examples with this, opinions? Dec 27 07 08:30 am Link Frog516 wrote: Lots of fashion photographers use beauty dish. Dec 27 07 08:35 am Link ChanStudio - OtherSide wrote: thanks for the link Dec 27 07 08:47 am Link I'd like to se some examples too. Dec 27 07 08:54 am Link I had mine up. But, I'm deleting all my photos for the New Year, to make way for 2008 shots...so, I can't upload any at this time. If I come across one, I will. Dec 27 07 08:58 am Link www.alienbees.com has one for their light set up for really cheap, but you have to make sure you get the highest output strobe with it "the b1800". I use it, its a great set up, Unless you have $10,000. to spend on the Hansel Portable light and beauty dish, many fashion photgrapghers use it and it is also a very useful light when you want the attention to draw to the center its like creating a vignette without photoshop. Dec 27 07 09:01 am Link Rich Davis wrote: http://www.mola-light.com/ Dec 27 07 09:06 am Link For a lot of my shots, it was my lighting of choice, I had a 24" dish (got stolen out of my car). Most of the time I just used the dish - sometimes a reflector also. EDIT: None are in my portfolio. Dec 27 07 09:08 am Link This was shot with a homemade beauty dish attached to a novatron head. It is cool what you can do with a giant salad bowl and a pie pan and a little white paint. By the way, the beauty dish was the only light used here.  Dec 27 07 09:13 am Link ChanStudio - OtherSide wrote: Is the lighting essentials DVD any good? Dec 27 07 09:29 am Link  Simple portrait with "OLD STYLE" 20" White Lighting beauty dish. No Photoshop. --- Additional light: hair light from the top/behind of the model (spot 18 degree grid) and Canon 430 flash behind model directed to background. Dec 27 07 09:38 am Link 16" dish with diffuser, softbox camera right for fill and back light with 20 deg grid.  Dec 27 07 09:51 am Link  Dec 27 07 09:53 am Link I used it in most of my indoor shots  Dec 27 07 09:55 am Link I have some stuff using the beauty dish with a soft box but here is one with just the dish alone... AB800 w/ beauty dish   Dec 27 07 09:58 am Link I used a beauty dish as my main light in more than half of the photos in my port Dec 27 07 09:58 am Link I just got one for Christmas! The AB version. So far I've only experimented with it on my wife and myself but I am impressed. And so was she. In about 5 minutes I took some of the best photos of her that I have ever taken! Oh yeah, she wasn't wearing any make up at all and even she was happy with the way her skin looked with no photoshop. I can't wait to play with it some more. Maybe I can post some from that shoot l little later. Dec 27 07 10:03 am Link Someone said you have to use the AB Beauty dish at full power?? Bullshit. I use my beauty dish all the time and never at full power.     Dec 27 07 10:06 am Link It ain't what you use but the way that you use it... x Dec 27 07 10:09 am Link The AB dish is 22inches, works fine, but grids for it are $180 a pop. Broncolor dish is 20 inches and grids are $100 from speedotron, of all places. For me, the key component is the grid. Dec 27 07 10:11 am Link Mark Cant wrote: Thats is the best comment here so far. Dec 27 07 10:11 am Link LIPSTICK PHOTOGRAPHY wrote: wow...does someone want to buy my hensel porty and dish for $10K?!?! that's about $7k more than i paid for it. Dec 27 07 10:26 am Link Was thinking of getting one as well. I'm curious, though, what the difference is between a beauty dish and a silver reflective umbrella, other than the ability to attach modifiers? Dec 27 07 10:27 am Link I use one quite a bit. This one is a 19" elinchrom dish balanced with fill (2:1) and ambient light.  larger one in the port. Dec 27 07 10:34 am Link Frog516 wrote: My current avatar image: Dec 27 07 10:35 am Link LIPSTICK PHOTOGRAPHY wrote: 10k? wow-- the folks you buy your stuff from must be damn happy. Dec 27 07 10:39 am Link ChanStudio - OtherSide wrote: How much do these run and are they compatible with Novatron power packs? Dec 27 07 10:46 am Link ChanStudio - OtherSide wrote: I like how in the example, the beauty dish makes the model younger. Dec 27 07 10:46 am Link Here is one of my wife.  Dec 27 07 10:54 am Link Here's another one. I only had the beauty dish for about 5 minutes and she wasn't wearing any make up. What do you think?  And one more just for fun.  Dec 27 07 11:00 am Link Smoot Photography wrote: I think the dish was too close so you blew out the highlights to expose most of the face. I also don't think that a dish is the best modifier for split lighting. I'd try it for butterfly or loop lighting. Dec 27 07 11:04 am Link Frog516 wrote: I am shooting all time indor-authdor Hensel Integra + 22" beautydish :-) Dec 27 07 11:05 am Link Vesta Six Photography wrote: In my opinion, beauty dish (even without any modifiers) controls spill light better and at least, when compared to small silver umbrella, has softer light (of course, when you keep it close to subject). Dec 27 07 11:07 am Link beauty dish  Dec 27 07 11:08 am Link Rich Davis wrote: I have no idea about the lighting essentials DVD but the best tutorial on light is this book: Dec 27 07 11:09 am Link Damon Banner wrote: Wow, I have to look at it closely. Dec 27 07 11:10 am Link N Stiles Photography wrote: You may be right. I was just playing with my new Christmas toy here. Give me some time to experiment with this thing and I'll post some more. Thanks for the crit though. Dec 27 07 11:14 am Link LIPSTICK PHOTOGRAPHY wrote: Hensel's don't cost $10k. Dec 27 07 11:15 am Link I'm addicted to my 22" beauty dish (AB). I never use mine on full power, but I've had some great outcomes from it. Here's a couple....    Dec 27 07 11:22 am Link Here are a few examples, all with grid several different dishes, I am not a huge fan of an unmodified mola, the spedtron blackline dish is my favorite followed by a hensel silver with deflector, not the grided one or at least not with a center grid, I do not use dishes without grids unless I am outside using it as a sun from far away. Broncolor makes a nice one also.                                    Stephen Eastwood http://www.StephenEastwood.com Dec 27 07 11:51 am Link |
