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Old 09-26-2009, 06:11 PM
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Default My DIY Beauty Dish
Made one of the "Koval" bamboo bowl beauty dishes the other day. Day 'fore yesterday, I saw my neighbor and his kids playing in the back yard. Easy target. No one refuses free pics from their photographer neighbor.

Here are 2





The light was super easy to make and I used this as a guideline and tweaked it to my flavor.

With the exception of the vignette blur on the first, the colorize on the 2nd, and some slight sharpening, they're unmodified. You can clearly see the ring in the catchlights on the 2nd.

Taken on my deck at dusk. 1/4 power speedlight. ISO 400, 1/250 sec (to pull in just a touch of ambient).

A couple more shots from the same sitting are here.

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Old 09-26-2009, 10:53 PM
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I like it! I just built my own beauty dish for a 400 Ws Lumedyne. It's a great tool to have in your arsenal!

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Old 09-27-2009, 04:38 AM
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NIce shots and I'm glad you have such cooperative neighbors. I built a DIY beauty dish sometime back and love it. In the right situation, it is perfect.
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Old 09-27-2009, 04:40 AM
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The lighting looks great! I just might have to try this. Thanks for sharing!
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love it.. nice job
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Old 09-30-2009, 10:31 PM
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Beautiful lighting! I may have to put hubby to work on some of this DIY stuff
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Old 09-30-2009, 10:55 PM
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Beautiful lighting! I may have to put hubby to work on some of this DIY stuff
More pics on my lighting blog. The link is below.

If your "other" half is the slightest bit handy, it's a super easy build.

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