Fotodiox Pro White Beauty Dish 22" for Alien Bees Strobe Flash Light B400, B800, B1600
Beauty DIshes are the perfect accessory for the portrait photographer, the Fotodiox Beauty Dish uniquely diffuses light to provide high output with moderate feathering. Unlike a softbox or a reflector which has an "illuminating" surface, the beauty dish has a circle of light with an opaque center and an internal light shield that creates bounce-only lighting. How does the beauty dish compare to a softbox? Since the beauty dish is smaller than a softbox, it will result in less-soft shadows. It will also provide moderately round catch lights in the eyes, where a softbox will yield larger rectangular catch lights. The Fotodiox beauty dish uses a parabolic reflector in 80 degree angle to focus light towards a wrapped area. You can use soft diffuser cover and honeycomb grid to further change the light pattern, creating a wrapped, contrasted look, which adds a very dramatic effect.