Glow Foldable Beauty Dish With Bowens Mount And Removable Grid (Silver, 28")

The Glow 28" 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. This 28" Silver version of the series has more 'snap' than the white internal finish and serves best from head and shouldersportraits to dramatic half-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" beauty dish on monolights and flash heads for flattering people shots, especially for sculpting facial features and creating beautiful shadows and catch lights. Glamour and sports photographers, which typically use a crisp type of lighting to enhance curves, muscles, and texture, use all sizes of the Glow Folding Beauty Dish. This 28" diameter model can produce a tighter distinct beam with more 'wrap', overall scattering more focused light to treat beauty subjects and areas as well. The interior of the GlowFolding Beauty Dish is available 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 light for 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. The Glow 28" Folding Beauty Dish Honeycomb Grid is a powerful tool in the arsenal of artificial lighting photographer used in conjunction with the Glow 28" Folding Beauty Dish. You gain more control of a light source's beam by covering the front of the beauty dish with the grid, virtually eliminating spill and feathers the light creating an attractive shadow, separating 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 modelfacial structure as well as the eyes, lips, nose and chin. The lightweight accessory attaches to the rim of the beauty dish with a Velcro strip that follows the perimeter of the grid. Makes you look like a master. The Glow 28" 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 problemsof 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. Add the honeycomb grid for total beauty dish bliss.