A beauty dish is used in portrait and fashion work to generate a concentrated pool of light and produce its characteristic round catch light in the subject’s eyes.
Let's move on to Beauty Dishes
The picture [below left] is of the Lencarta Beauty dish, which is available in 70cm and 40cm sizes. Other manufacturers, Bowens and Elinchrom for example, offer different sizes.
I used the B1600 with a beauty dish and grid, but the B1600 is complete overkill, you could easily get away with a less powerful strobe.
lamps, beauty dishes, and a number of studio gizmos. You don't need to buy all of the equipment in order to create your own indirect light, but it certainly will make your job easier.
5m power pack soft box very high. Normally I would use a beauty dish, but not this time as I needed a little softer light. I shot this with a Nikon D3 and a Sigma 80-200mm lens at about f/11. I now use a Nikon D3X and Nikon VR lens.
Minimal frontlighting came from a Profoto beauty dish (D) and a second 7B lamphead/powerpack combo.
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