How to Position a Beauty Dish for Portraits
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- Опубликовано: 29 май 2014
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Beauty dish light is known for helping photographers capture beautiful photos of skin, but positioning it matters.
In this clip, Lindsay Adler gives you lots of tricks for working with a beauty dish so you get the right balance of angles and soft skin.
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I have taking several online courses in photography and photography lighting but Lindsay presentation style makes it so much more enjoyable and engaging. I've learned so much more from watching her tutorials
i agreed
Thank you Lindsay, that was helpful. Just bought a beauty dish and didn't know the correct placement of it. You solved that problem for me thanks.
It’s weird that an 8 year old video seems retro, but I’m glad to see that my fave educator has been crushing it for a while now.
Wonderful video!! Thank you for the tips on positioning and detail on how the light behaves!
Great demo. I wondered about how to take advantage of a beauty dish. Thanks!
Thank you so much, I just obtained a beauty dish and this gave me a great start off.
Love the tips in this video!
I absolutely love your channel. Thank you for these insightful lessons. They are SO helpful!
reflector to illuminate shadows under chin and neck makes the photo look much better. Nice video.
People forget the purpose of the video. both model and the photographer did a great job as well as the assistant. Thank you guys
Well said. Great team work
Best video on lighting I’ve found because you showed examples in photos
Wow so easy when well explained ! Thanks Lindsey
you are quite an instructor lady. Like what you do. Gonna practice in my makeshift studio
Thanks for the tips. I will watch out for those issues.
Great instructor. The video still useful today if have a studio or home use for fun or E Commerce.
Thank you for this class!!!
Love Lindsay, Hope to take another class with you sometime.
lots of good tips thank you for sharing
thank you SO much!
Great informative video. Love it
Very intuitive.
Great! Thanks!
amazing job
Is that a Sigma 150mm Macro?
sweet vid!
Thank you
whats the size of your beauty dish?
will this kind of lighting works for video?
No, you will need a continuous light source.
muy bueno
Why does my beauty dish light hit the background and I get horrible shadows
She could have been from the audience. It's good that she had a high forehead. It accentuated the issues for the lighting explanation. Hot spots are a real issue in almost all portraits.
hi, want to ask if it's possible to use beauty dish for full body photo with extra fill light from the softbox? thank you.
+William Hartono I've used my beauty dish plenty of times shooting full body. I always use a standing v-flat for fill though.
+William Hartono This is with a 28" dish and no fill. www.flickr.com/photos/ddbias/17203501642/in/datetaken-public/
+derrick bias hey derrick, thank you so much for your replies. appreciate it so much. i'll try using v-flat for fill next time.
+William Hartono I wouldn't recommend it. The "sweet spot" for the beauty dish is between 1.5-3 feet from the face.
You could. You’d have to place it far away from the subject. This would effectively make it a hard light source.
Was ist das für eine Lampe von Profoto? Ist Dauerlicht oder Blitz?
Ist ein Profoto D1. Also ein Blitz. Das Dauerlicht ist das Einstelllicht vom Blitzkopf.
I always wondered if John the assistant is also a photographer. He seems very knowledgeable on the equipment. If he has photography work out there I would love to see his work too. Maybe he can give a class too.
can anyone tell me a good beauty dish for outdoor
+Jorge n Sindy Cortez Look at the Kacey dishes. He has a compliment of boom like attachments. I love my Kacey dish by the way.
Hi , I would like to focus on outdoor portraits and plan on buying the profoto B1 in the next couple of days.Would it better to use that with an octabox outdoors or the profoto silver softlight reflector (www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/141163-REG/Profoto_100607_Silver_Softlight_Beauty_Dish.html) .Ur recommendations and inputs pls for outdoor portraiture of couples and individuals
One thing to mention is profoto makes the glass dome for the monolight which will eliminate the dark spot.
As long as the center deflector is in the beauty dish, there will always be a dark spot.
do anybody know what sort of beauty dish she got
Dave LeBlanc thanks so much!
The beauty dish was made to be used with a source which has a protruding flash tube (Pyrex). You’re working against geometry.
West coast. Every statement is a question?
.... keep your socks on !!! LOL
I wish there was more symmetry in her features. I’m having a hard time discerning effect of the light from structure of the face
Fire your grip with that cstand setup.
Unfortunately, Lindsey is using the wrong light source for this dish, and I'm surprised given her reputation. A beauty dish - any beauty dish, relies on having an open tube to make it work properly. The Profoto D1 light Lindsey is using has a flat glass face, and this will never work very well.
Profoto do make a rather useful dome diffuser that can be fitted to the B1, D1 and D2 strobes, (note not the B10 range) and this gets quite close to the open tube effect.
By using the flat face, you'll end up with a few issues...
Firstly the light isn't going to fill the dish as well as it should, and you're only going to fill it largely with the light bounced back from the centre disc. (This is not how this modifier was designed back when Profoto only ever made open tube style strobes, which work beautifully with this dish).
Secondly, because the light on a flat-face designed strobe is primarily leaving the strobe in a forward-only direction, quite a bit of that light actually misses the centre disc entirely. This gives a rather unpleasant hot ring of light which can easily hit your subject. I speak from bitter experience with my first shoot using a flat face D1 and this dish, where I struggled with a rather uncooperative hot ring if I angled the light too shallow.
So at all times, you're only going to get a decent result if you have a dome on the front of the light instead of a flat face, or if you use an open tube design.
Now people will most certainly be able to get good results because if you place the light just right, you can work around the issues of Lindsey's flat-face strobe. But you'll get better results and have more flexibility if you have that dome or an open tube.
Alas Profoto's metal beauty dish was never designed for these modern flat-faced strobes. I compared it using my own D1's (with domes and without), to a Profoto ProHead (which has an open tube design). The light from my D1 with a dome was just fine, but the light from the ProHead combo was wonderful. Note my D1 without the use of the dome was the worst of the three).
Now I have quite a bit of Profoto gear so I'm certainly invested in their gear. And I have one of these dishes which I do use. But I discovered a dish that works absolutely beautifully with a D1 style strobe plus a dome, and that's the Wescott Rapid Beauty Dish. (You can get it with different fittings). Used with the diffusion dome on a D1 head and with the centre disc placed only 1cm away from the front of the dome, you can get a result very close to what I saw from the ProHead and the Profoto beauty dish. And it has the benefit of being collapsable.
So certainly take on board what Lindsey teaches here, but know that you really do need a Diffusion Dome on those flat-face strobes to make any dish work. :)
models; a robot? Is it a prototype ?
Sevgi Derneği yes thats a humanoid ugly as f and right down long face type witches
some wear dark lipstick like hers cause it's a show of authority. We respected her authority :3
That photo on the screen in the background is shocking.
Lindsay. You should take a look at some of Peter Hurley's work and videos. He really is good. It might mean upgrading to rather more expensive equipment though.
You do know that she's using Profoto gear here, right? Hurley has also started using Profoto a while now.
One of the 'nice try but you should look at somebody else who's better than you' comments which abound on youtube. Expensive equipment doesn't make you a better photographer. Understanding how things like lighting work does.
Except she charges for her tutorials pretty hefty for someone who is an assistant to Chris Knight and the assistant she uses in this video is some old man that has a corner in his basement and calls himself a photographer. What Im trying to say its all blowing smoke, selling a story to people that know nothing about photography or are very beginners. But actually she herself is not at all a good photographer and is still an assistant.
WickedlNl Adler is a fantastic photographer. You clearly do not know what you are talking about.
kent2305 funny
Lol that model looks like a robot :D
She is like a beautiful vampire.
zzz
that woman looks pissed off or bored at best. u did a great job but shes quite distracting. LOL
watussix plus shes fugly dam
Fuck off. it's a tutorial. Nobody cares if you think she's pretty or not. Way to not pay attention to the actual point of the tutorial.
@@jjbenz9633 - And with just a few words, the whole world now knows what a nasty little twat you are, well done!
why is she mad?? :D , messed the whole video up 4 me. next time get a happier model :)
+Francis K I was thinking the same thing!
+Francis K PBF Hahaha
+Francis K #RBF
+Francis K It's the heat of the lights he, she's hot
that woman looks scary..like im wht heck am i doing this sux ..
beautiful Photog but too much make up
BigmoDaco The point of the video is lighting not whether the “photog” is beautiful.
She is mad
Feets! :(... need to traslate....you shoot on mm and still can't learn metric system!!..
Alex Bueno why don't YOU learn or Google it instead of whining ?
shaolin95 Porque Uds son los únicos usan ese sistema primitivo de medida. Use google translator
Alex, the US isn't the only country that uses the imperial system. Educate yourself, please.
I did, is why I can watch this in english and not in my mother lenguage....in the other hand...just a few country use it in fact US militaries use the metric because of incompatibilities with their allies, so, you should open your mind and learn the system is used world wide
I'm not the one that's complaining here. YOU are the one that's complaining. I know how to use both the metric and imperial systems; therefore, before you tell me to learn the metric system, which I already use, take your own advice, open your mind, and learn the imperial system.
Not a great lesson. Either it's a bad beauty dish or the photographer doesn't know what she's doing. She never got rid of the hot spot on the forehead. The beauty dish is supposed to provide a smooth, crisp, glamorous light source. That is why it's called a beauty dish. None of these results made the model look more glamorous. Very strange.
is this that actress from 2 broke girls
Feminist look
dude looks homeless af.
The softness doesn't change with distance but how bigger the light source is, should correct that
The softness change with the distance also because if you move the light away the source become smaller
It's all about the relative size of the light source compared to the subject. A 150 cm octa is a massively small lightsource when shooting a semitruck but a large lightsource for a person's face.
This size relation is a function of both actual size and distance of the light source from the subject.
Thank you. It's both for sure.
good example for beginners what mistakes they should not do presented by enough st..id girl
She acts so awkward in front of the public
Judging by her work and how far she's gotten as far as popularity and technicality, I think she's doing just fine.
the inside reflector is on backwards. The convex side goes towards the light so it bounces the light in a even circle around the dish, using the concave side will only throw the light back at the light source. I thought a "professional" would know this.
Isn’t that how she’s got it? I looked at 00:09 and can’t see what you mean.
If you had any idea of what you're talking about, you'd know that the centre disc on this Profoto beauty dish is completely flat. It isn't possible to put it on backwards because is is the same both sides. Sheesh...
bad lighting, need more practice
Model looks pissed, maybe smile a bit?
not the best model...