Bowens Beauty Dish

Bowens beauty dish,

a popular light

modifier

Beauty dish is a hot favourite of a number of photographers working in different domains. If you are aspiring to be a studio photographer, you should have proper understanding of the light modifier

Construction of a beauty dish

A beauty dish is made of a large concave dish with a circular slot in the middle. The slot is for mounting the device on a light source. A smaller circular dish (also known as tube cover) is attached right in front on the circular slot and prevent light from directly falling on a subject. It reflects light to the larger dish which finally projects and spreads light towards the subject

Using beauty dish with no accessories

Bowens beauty dish is usually installed close to the face of a model. This helps in gaining the maximum from the light modifier. For getting harsher illumination the tube cover is removed

USING BEAUTY DISH WITH

ACCESSORIES

The biggest benefit of beauty dish is that it can be used be a number of accessories for modifying light to harsher and softer tone. If one needs softer light, the person will only have to add a diffusion panel for getting the desired effect. Grid panel is used for giving direction to light rays