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I am looking to get a beauty dish, and just have never pulled the trigger on one. Any ideas of which ones are better and more useful? I know Alien Bees and WL have them as well as Hensel, and I am sure others. Whats working well for you heavy hitters out there? Mar 11 08 07:32 pm Link See the Beauty Dish section in the Lighting, Flash, Ring, & Battery Strobe Reference thread thread for links to many threads on the topic, including usage suggestions, and different brands. Just be aware that most beauty dishes are mount specific, and aren't easily interchanged between brands. A good starting point would be Stephen Eastwood's consolidated answer thread on Beauty Dishes. * So tell me some about Beauty Dishes and grids ? Mar 11 08 07:42 pm Link I love a Elinchrom 27 inch silver myself! Mar 11 08 09:33 pm Link Hensel dishes fit AlienBees. Mar 11 08 09:54 pm Link i'm clearly not a heavy hitter because i made my own this week and so far it works brilliantly with my flash... good alternative before purchasing one... Mar 12 08 01:19 am Link i can't wait to get a grid for mine...just used the 3ft octabox and came out great too...this is such a sickness! love getting good gear and playing haha Mar 12 08 01:24 am Link I love the 27" Elinchrom white, beautiful light. Yes, there's always more 'stuff' we want to get, but we put it to good use, right? Stephanie Mar 12 08 07:46 am Link I am a big fan of both my hensel 22" white dish and my profoto 22" softlighter. Both provide me with exactly that kind of light i expect from a bd. Mar 12 08 08:43 am Link Stephaniespix wrote: Do you use the difuser on the Elinchrome BD? Mar 12 08 08:52 am Link Speedotron Blackline Dish: Mar 12 08 10:25 am Link As far as heavy hitters go, I believe Stephen Eastwood mostly uses the Speedotron blackline. I have Bowens strobes so I use the Bowens BD personally... and love it Mar 12 08 10:34 am Link I like the 22" Demi from Mola. Also on occassion I utilize the 18" dish from Dyna-Lite. Mar 12 08 10:56 am Link I use the Photogenic 24-inch white dish and for people with great skin its great. However on young people with skin problems or 40-year plus women I prefer a 3ft Octodome w/grid and internal diffuser. Mar 12 08 11:00 am Link I like the mola dishes too. Have the demi and euro. Mar 12 08 01:09 pm Link Ched wrote: I used that light and dish yesterday! Absolutely loved it. Mar 12 08 05:09 pm Link Mar 12 08 05:42 pm Link W. Seren wrote: On your port do you remember which dish you used with each picture? Mar 12 08 08:47 pm Link j3_photo wrote: The only thing that sucks about the octabox is that the grid cost almost the same amount as the box. oooooooouuuuuuuuuucccccccccchhhhhhhhh! Mar 12 08 08:49 pm Link read eastwood's thread on beauty dishes, he covered the bases very well....and his modification works great! m-a Mar 12 08 08:59 pm Link Hmm let's see. On the first row, all was shot with the demi except the one with the 2 girls. That was the euro. And on the bottom row, all those were using the 22" except the one with the zipper on the models lips. That one was just with the zoom reflector gridded and using barndoors. Mar 12 08 11:34 pm Link Photos2amaze Studio wrote: Mola, they have lots of adapter for flash heads. Mar 12 08 11:52 pm Link |