Beauty Dish Lighting Tutorial & How to make a DIY Beauty Dish with an umbrella for less than $7.00
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ค. 2017
- Beauty Dishes are a favored light modifier for both portrait photographers and fashion photographers. In this beauty dish lighting tutorial I am going to break down the how, what, why, when and where of beauty dishes and show you how you can make your own DIY Beauty Dish with shoot through umbrella for less than $7.00.
Beauty Dishes were originally designed as modifiers for studio strobes. In other words - they were designed to be used on a strobe head with a flash tube that sends light in all directions and the beauty dish shapes the light. You can also use a beauty dish on a speedlight - BUT - a speedlight has a contained flash tube that is designed to push the light forward! So in a beauty dish almost all of the light fro the spedlight is hitting the reflector plate and then bouncing into the dish and being redirected out the front. It is a different result. It’s not a matter of better or worse - it's a matter of different and which do you prefer - so experiment.
A beauty dish doesn’t diffuse or soften light like a softbox or umbrella, instead it reflects light and helps you focus light towards a specific point. A beauty dish is a parabolic reflector with a flash mounted in the middle and a plate covering the flash head. This way when the flash is fired, the light hits the plate bounces back into the parabolic dish and out the sides. Because of the size and curvature of the dish - most of the light is directed forward. But remember - all light spreads - so generally beauty dishes are used fairly close to the subject to create a semi-hard light without a hot spot in the center.
People have created a DIY beauty dish with everything from salad bowls to to plastic buckets. The thing is - most of the shots that new and young photographers use a beauty dish for - don’t really need a beauty dish. Yes - they are trying to create good portrait lighting - They want the quick and dramatic light fall off - they want a focused light - you don’t need a beauty dish to do that. I can create light that is almost identical to a beauty dish with a $6.00 shoot through umbrella from Photoflex.
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I wouldn't have believed you could do that if I hadn't just seen it - awesome!
Glad you enjoyed it Martin Thomas! I appreciate the comment!
Hi! same here ^^, also portability for this" beauty dish" is unbeatable. Great !
It's nice to see such positive person! You are a reflector of positivity! Thanks for the video! 🥰
You're very welcome upaljena masina! Thank you so much for the kind words!
Brilliant! Thank you for demystifying the beauty dish, and revealing the black foam core hack!
You are my Photography Guru! I can't thank you for sharing your wisdom.
absolutely the boss love the way you keep it simple and also show alternative ways to save some dosh, cheers Joe.
How cool is this? I love using my shoot through and cannot wait to give this a try. Thanks, Joe!
I still like the catchlight of the metal beauty dish over the umbrella. I'd make the investment.
I have been in photography a long time and I love this idea, the black cut out on the front never would have thought of it. Keep the great tips coming
Thanks for the explaination Joe, very well explained.
Awesome video tutorial, You've saved the day by cutting expense from aquiring a beauty dish you only going to use occasionally when you already own a see thru umbrella that can do the same job! Great stuff Joe, you're 'AWESOME '! 😎 👍
Thank you Joe. My DIY beauty dish will be my next project. Very helpful to know.
This should be a 'must watch' video for all budding flash photographers! Great work @Joe Edelman.
Just tried it and love the result. Will be experimenting with different sized circle and umbrellas. Thanks for the video!
Thanks very much Joe. Articulate and to the point. Great explanation and advice. Very well produced. Kudos.
Great video Joe, Since i recently started exploring with my new dish loving the results too.
Thanks Joe, I made this into a little project and it works out great. I am new to OCF so your channel is fantastic for me.
What a great idea - dug my old shoot-thru brollies out!!
Awesome Yafful Woodpecker Presents! Thanks for commenting!
Definitely one of the best photography channels! sr Joe Edelman Muchas gracias! maestro! !
Great stuff Joe!!! Love the gel shot at the end!
Great idea! I think the $7 "shoot through beauty dish" looks better than the other "real" beauty dish.
Awesome Mr. Joe I did the same few months ago with a small softbox and it works too, but the idea to use the umbrella is great, thanks for share.
Thanks Joe. Always informative!
Glad you enjoyed it Philip Cunio! I appreciate the comment!
Appreciate your professional delivery and personal style. Informative and entertaining.
You are a genius, Joe!!! I am using this trick next Mon on a boudoir shoot! Unbelievable....
Excellent as always. Thank you Joe.
You're very welcome Tom Boyd! I am glad you enjoyed it!
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Another great video. Thanks!
Excellent tutorial, valuable information, thank you sir!
I couldn't help watching first 10 secs over and over again! So funny introduction with beautiful dish :)))
I'm so glad I found your videos!!!
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Wonderful lesson.
Thanks !
Hi Joe thank you for sharing :)
You have great videos! I just got the Canon 6d and I'm trying to learn everything that I possibly can with photography! Your videos are helping me a lot! Thank you 😊
IMPRESIONANTE!!!! ha resuelto muchas dudas que tenia sobre el beauty dish
AWESOME!!!! has solved many doubts I had about the beauty dish
¡Excelente! andaeljaime ¡Me alegra que haya ayudado!
Oh my god, socks are knocked off and flying across the room. I'm just switching from natural to studio lighting, and my wallet can't thank you enough. You're an angel for sharing this information. New subscriber here. Have a great day!
Thanks Wooden Canoe Pictures and THANKS for subscribing - great to have you along for the ride!
Thank you Joe. You are so good at understanding how things work, find a way to work around it with less expense and the ability to break it down and teach other people. Sometime I wonder if you have a degree in engineering somewhere before you do photography lol
Again, it's all about a skill, not an equipment. Great video, but your professional experience has definitely helped in this shoot! :-)
Thank you!! Awesome video.
You're very welcome heho888! I am glad you enjoyed it!
Joe, you are awesome.
Please, don´t forget the subtitles. The subtitles help us who do not speak English.
Greetings from Argentina.
Great ideea! Awesome result... Congratulations!
Thank you Sorin Mitrea! I really appreciate the kind words!
Wow 😲 thanks, that’s a great idea.
You're very welcome Rich Barschdorf! I am glad you enjoyed it!
You are a genius! Thank you! Good luck and inspiration!
Thank you Николай Вакатов! I really appreciate the kind words!
@@theJoeEdelman I love talking to creative photographers because most of us are inventors. In spite of all that is offered by the manufacturers of photographic equipment. A friend of my family is a photographer - craftsman, but he was also an inventor. I've been imbued with this spirit since childhood. I am glad that you generously share your ideas Joe. I bow and thank you for that.
It is the nature of my job to have to keep learning, but it is the nature of my job also that I have so very little time to do so. So these tidbits of information in the realm of ten minutes is great. But I have you know that I have not been able, for the nature of my job, to watch the live streams for they are too long. I do need my sleep and you and others are in competition for my time. So, for those of us that jobs where we at the job for ten to twelve hours a day, the shorter bits of info works out to be the best format.
lol - Gerard Kuzawa thanks for commenting. There are a few thousand people that like the long format ones also. No need to worry - I am going to continue doing both. The short tutorials like this one will never go away.
Thank you!)
Great video!!
Thank you David Tamayo! Glad you enjoyed it!
nice one thanks
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She was a showgirl . . .
awesome!
Thanks for commenting naveen saxena!
Thanks for this Joe. I really enjoy your tutorial videos rather than you live chats.
thanks joe.... im learning...
You're very welcome positive good and THANKS for subscribing - great to have you along for the ride!
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Amazing @JoeEdelman!!!
Thank you! VOHEntertainment Glad you enjoyed it!
Hey Joe,
Great segment.
I pickup the Wescott Rapidbox beauty dish I love that thing, it is amazing.
If you get a chance can you review the new Adorama Orlit Rovelight 610 RT. I have had it for a few months and it is flipping amazing.
I have quite a few small shoot-thru umbrellas store away. Time to pull them out and put them to use again. Thanks.
There you go Jai DaMann! Thanks for commenting!
Insta like just for the intro :D
Thanks Svein Arild Kristiansen!
Pretty cool, Joe! I don't know if it's just me, but the light on Lola's face from the beauty dish just looks more luminous and has more pop. I think it's more, well, beautiful. The umbrella light, while still nice, looks relatively flat and uninteresting to me. Another great tutuorial!
Thanks for tips Joe. I wanted to ask, what's the minimum watt power strobe would you recommend for beginners on a budget?
Joe, your videos are always great and packed with information I find useful. I love this idea with the umbrellas.
I have a question on the Photoflex umbrellas. On your suggestion I followed the link you have posted and they still have the $6 umbrellas which I was pleased about. However when I went to check out the least expensive shipping charge is $12, making my cost for one umbrella $18. Did I miss something?
Amazing how simple a simple solution can get you 95% of the way there. Thanks, Joe! I'm a Paul C. Buff customer, would a Soft Silver 64in PML also produce a similar Beauty Dish look? What about using the 51in White PML Shoot Through umbrella?
Hold on a minute you just saved me 150 dollars! thank you
Awesome Camata Mulabah! Thanks for commenting!
Hi Joe,
As always great advice!
How, when and where did you meet Lola?
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Hi
Was wondering where/how you hung the tulle for the shot you described
Thanks
It might have been interesting to see a comparison that included an image captured without the black foamcore circle in place.
LOL Bill Mastorakis - I have to leave all of you something to experiment with. Like I say in the video - in order to master lighting - you need to master the Inverse Square Law and then practice and experiment to build your visual database! Thanks for watching!
cool :D As you said, almost identical, just a bit more contrasty with the BD.
But if you do a bit D&B in PS that will be very much alike in my opinion :)
Time to get some foamcore.
Indeed Svein Arild Kristiansen - it would be very easy to duplicate the beauty dish with a little Photoshop. Thank for commenting!
hi bro, can i use speedllite flash for portrait indoor shooting ?
hello, thanks for the tutorial. could you kindly show how to mount a speedlite to the umbrella?
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Thank you Robert Persuad! I appreciate the comment.
Great idea. Does the black disc ever fall off the tip of the umbrella?
I noticed on beauty dishes designed for speed lights the target surface is the convex side vs the one for strobes is normally the concave side.
It's amazing you're able to invent this technique. By the way, would a small reflective umbrella emulate the beauty dish even more if you block the center?
Thank you Shang-Hsien Yang! With a little experimenting you could definitely do it with a reflective umbrella. I only used the shoot-through as the example since I talk about them often.
Thanks for the video! I haven´t tried a collapsible BD, have to drag around a 30in/70cm BD around, it is a pain!
You're welcome David Huang!
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Thanks Bardo Luna for subscribing - great to have you along for the ride!
Is the surface of the white beauty dish glossy or matte?
Very good video but that last part with the gel shot/blue background was going to fast. How many lights did you use to get that shot? 3?
A great tutorial I have watcher several times! Still not clear to me when and why using a beauty dish instead... Can you help me Joe?
Thank you Simone Seri! The short answer is that portrait, beauty and fashion photographers like the idea of a beauty dish because of the shaped and rapid light fall-off that it creates.
So you would replace it with an umbrella (as you used it in this tutorial) all the time? Or there are cases you would still prefer a real beauty? Tks again!
Can anyone please recommend a good brand of shoot through umbrellas or soft boxes? I don’t have faith in the numerous brands off of amazon.
I am a big fan of Photoflex Greyguitars1401 - thats what I used in the video.
Joe Edelman thanks so much for your reply! Unfortunately Photoflex is still sold out of their umbrellas:(
I’m considering the small multi dome soft box now.
great ideology
One thing is for certain a masked quality umbrella would be nearly impossible to differentiate from a typical beauty to a typical viewer. Why pay hundreds for a Mola or other. In fact, if a person did the same comparison with a foldable BD like Brons Beauty 65 I doubt there would be any appreciable difference. Obviously this umbrella method is not comparable to a silver BD BD. Another option is a socked large reflector (sports reflector or similar) with a central mask.
Haha it's been 2 days and the umbrella is completely sold out!!
Geez... Is Lola part Giraffe? That's one LOOOONG neck ; )
Hey Jimmy Hill - be careful with the body shaming!!!! 😎 😎 😎 Make sure you subscribe so that you can see her more often - she is a regular in my videos!