Glow 28" Silver Beauty Dish for Elinchrom Mount

While the Glow 28" Silver Beauty Dish for Elinchrom Mount is renowned for its ability to produce striking portraiture and fashion images, its unique diffusion properties are what truly set it apart. Achieved through a double parabolic reflector system, this light modifier creates a blend of direct flash and softbox effects, delivering a wrap-around look that combines the softness of a softbox with the contrast and dramatic directionality of a direct flash. The silver finish of this beauty dish enhances output, creating more contrast and highlighting the intricate details of your subject. Compatible with most brands of studio flash and monolights, this beauty dish can be easily mounted via speedrings, which are sold separately.

The 28" Silver Beauty Dish is versatile, perfect for everything from head and shoulder portraits to dramatic full-figure studies. It is especially useful in tight spaces where traditional softboxes and umbrellas may not be effective. The design includes a small opaque reflective cover suspended over the light source, preventing direct light from hitting the subject. Instead, light bounces off the small interior disk and floods the larger bowl of the beauty dish, resulting in a softer, wider cast of light than a standard reflector can provide. The position of the small center reflector cap is adjustable, allowing you to control the spread of light to the large bowl and accommodate tall or high wattage modeling lights.

Included with the beauty dish is a diffusion fabric panel, or "sock, " which fits snugly over the rim of the dish, softening the focused light and creating softer shadow edges. Photographers often use the 28" beauty dish on monolights, flash heads, and speedlights for flattering people shots, particularly for sculpting facial features and creating beautiful shadows and catch lights. The larger 28" diameter model can produce a beam with more 'reach', scattering more focused light to treat larger subjects and areas. The interior of the Glow Beauty Dish comes in two coatings.

The 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, smoothes skin tone, and reveals less texture. For photographers seeking more control over their light source's beam, the optional Glow honeycomb grid is a valuable tool. By covering the aperture of the reflector with the disk, you can feather the hard light for an attractive shadow and gain more control over the directionality of your light. This can be used to add high key depth for fashion images, and emphasize the model's facial structure as well as the 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. In conclusion, the Glow 28" Silver Beauty Dish for Elinchrom Mount is a versatile, high-quality lighting tool that can enhance your photography and videography projects.