Glow 22" White Beauty Dish for Flashpoint Mount

Discover the Glow 22" White Beauty Dish for Flashpoint, a renowned light modifier that's perfect for capturing stunning portraiture and fashion photography. This unique product utilizes a double parabolic reflector system to achieve its distinctive diffusion properties. The result is a blend of a direct flash and a softbox effect, producing an image with a wrap-around look, akin to a softbox, but with heightened contrast and a more dramatic, directed beam. The white finish of this beauty dish enhances soft output, creates more contrast, and brings out the intricate details of your subject.

It's designed to mount onto most brands of studio flash and monolights via speedrings, which are sold separately. The 22" White version is ideal for head and shoulders portraits, dramatic half-figure studies, or subjects in tight spaces where softboxes and umbrellas aren't suitable. The beauty dish design features a small opaque reflective cover suspended directly over the light source, preventing direct light from hitting the subject. The light bounces off the small interior disk and floods the larger bowl of the beauty dish, resulting in a wide cast of softer light than a standard reflector and far superior to the harshness of a speedlight.

The position of the small center reflector cap is adjustable, allowing you to control the spread to the large bowl and accommodate tall or high wattage modeling lights. Included with the beauty dish is a diffusion fabric panel, known as "socks. " This translucent diffusion circle fits snugly over the rim of the dish, softening the ring of focused light, reducing contrast, and softening shadow edges. The spread of light is significantly increased, with a minor loss of about 1 stop, resulting in beautiful catch lights and a natural window light aura.

Photographers often use the 17" to 22" beauty dish on monolights, flash heads, and speedlights for flattering people shots. It's particularly effective for sculpting facial features, creating beautiful shadows, and catch lights. The Glow Beauty Dish is a favorite among glamour and sports photographers, who use it to enhance curves, muscles, and texture with its crisp lighting. The optional Glow honeycomb grid is an invaluable tool for any artificial lighting photographer. By covering the reflector's aperture with the disk, you gain more control over the light source's beam, and it feathers the hard light for an attractive shadow.

The varying degrees of the grid can alter the effect from a broad 40-degree soft pool of light with little spill, to a narrow 20-degree spotlight glow with more defined shadow borders. This strong directionality can be used to add high key depth for fashion images, and emphasize facial structures, eyes, lips, nose, and chin. The 30-degree version can achieve both effects of the 20-degree and 40-degree, but with less light control. The Glow 22" White Beauty Dish for Flashpoint is a versatile and essential tool for any photographer looking to elevate their lighting game.