Beauty Dish Studio Lighting: How to Create Dramatic Portraits
All hail the mighty Beauty Dish! This affordable modifier has helped me achieve awesome results in dozens of fashion and beauty shoots. Find out how it works and why I love it.
In this video:
✅ How the 70cm silver Beauty Dish works
✅ How to shoot with the Beauty Dish
✅ Price and affordability
✅ Accessories (and why I don't use them!)
✅ Comparison with other modifiers
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That was the most technical and helpful video about beauty dishes I have seen. Thanks, Karl🙏
Love these short and straight to the point explanation videos 👍
Great video Karl! Thank you very much
My pleasure!
I got a similar 70cm dish from a Purpleport forum about 4 years back for £35 U.K (including the metal grid). It's enormously heavy and the grip heads of my cheap C-stand had the be super tight to boom out all that weight & angle it down. I recently upgraded my c-stand to Manfrotto Avenger with a grip arm (where there is a fixed grip head on one end.) This setup make it much easier to do.
I've had a Para- loved it for models/fashion but there is nothing better than a Profoto (or other good brand) Beauty Dish for a Portrait.
Lindsay Adler would say a lot of things about your opinion on the grid but I'm just a new photographer and I'm Learning from you both....😂😂😂. Let's go.
Nice job, thanks for sharing
No other photographers talk about the physical effects of light as much as you do! Great job! I have a question, if you’re in a smaller studio would it work efficiently having it closer to subject?
Totally agree! 99% i use the beauty dish. One reason is, it´s easy to handle and second the results are great! Always.
These are great videos. Love the detail you go into explaining how the light works.
💪🏾Thank you many times over! This is my favorite type of video! Expeirence and show and tell makes me feel the meaning, not just have it shouted at me! Excellent video 🙏🏾
As always not only I enjoyed the video but also I learnt a lot! Thank you so much Karl! God bless and good luck!
Best photographers use beauty dish, face of model instantly looks more dramatic and vivid.
Awesome!! Good refresher course. This be good for Jewelry,headshot, or beauty campaign for a business or personal work.
Great video Karl. Love your honest opinion of the accessories hehe Interesting video Thanks for sharing.
Great video!
Thanks for the great video. What's your opinion on the collapsible beauty dishes?
great
Hm. Lindsay Adler uses a grid on a beauty dish quite a lot, especially to keep spill off the backdrop.
Lindsay shoots some good stuff but that wouldn't be my choice for using a beauty dish.
Would you prefer white or silver beauty dish for corporate headshots? and why
Hello! What if the beauty dish is smaller? 41cm Does it looks good too?
Curious, would you use the beauty dish to shoot a business portrait ?
It would depend on the subject, age, look etc but yes it would be possible with the correct candidates, if you're using it in conjunction with a tri-reflector below then it can still be flattering on 'normal' people.
would you ever use the "beauty dish" for something other than portraits? say, products ?
Hi, no never as you'd end up with a horrible looking ring of light reflecting off the gloss surface of your products. You're much better with gradient lighting on gloss products or if they are matt products a normal softbox would be better suited. You can learn everything you need to know about product lighting here: visualeducation.com/product-photography-courses/
I have a stupid question. How come you have white modelling lamp on unilite head?