D300, 50mm at f10, 1/200th, ISO100, Beauty dish and reflector

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Nice. What is a beauty dish?

 

Nice composition... Great shot.

 

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=beauty%20dish&w=all

 

Conrad, great image, a little wash out on the right cheek, but.... Great background to use to enhance her eyes.

 

^ Thanks! It doesn't look washed out on my monitor. Although, I do tend to have my images bright, so it might be on the borderline and could sway either way on different monitors.

 

I just calibrated my screens with a spyderpro 2 its slightly brighter than the other cheek. No biggie i think

 

whats the difference between that and a ring flash?

honestly never bothered to look into beauty dishes since i havent really ventured into that side of photography yet.

 

You can get similar effects with either. Both use reflective only light to illuminate the subject. The beauty dish also gives a softer light. I believe it comes down to how the catch eye lights look. The beauty dish has a nice round circle. The ring light kinda looks like a donut.

 

Updated version:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/haycon/3768041166/

 

nice

 

She's cute

 

 

Love the lighting! Great work Conrad!



Um... Is she single?

 

How close were you to her and about where and how far away (from her) was the beauty dish? (sorry, I'm a total noob with lighting )

 

Usually the lighting is kind of close but still out of the image and the photographer is further away.

Iirc the photographer needs to be further away to prevent distortion from shorter focal lengths as well as distortion from being too close.

 

Nice shot. Did you do any post or is her skin really that flawless? Pretty girl.

 

What Miz said.

Beauty dish was about 1.5 feet from her. I had my 50mm on so I was about 4-5 feet away.

I did do some post on her skin, but I tried not to over do it.

 

Care to post you skin processing technique?

 

Damn 1.5 feet away?!

 

Darn! I hate giving out my secrets.... *looks around and whispers*

Step 1. Portraiture Plug-in for Photoshop
Done.

I hope no one heard that.



I'm guessing about 1.5 feet or maybe 2 feet. If you were to sit down, the beauty dish and stand would be a few inches from your knees (distance wise, not actual location )

 

I don't know much about photography, but I feel like her eyes are hypnotizing me! Great shot!

 

What was the height of the dish relative to her head, and did you need to independently light the background at all?

 

From the looks of the shadows and catchlights in her eyes, the beautydish was up high on the right side of the model.

Also depending on what you want to do, you don't have to light the background. I think you expose for the ambient and then let the flash illuminate the subject.

Man it's been a while since I did anything like that, it was kind of fun.

 

lol thanks I'll look into that, I have some modeling shots from 1-2 years ago but haven't messed with them cause I don't know how to do skin processing.

 

I might have to stop by the .99 store later to buy some stuff and see if I can put together a "beauty dish".

 

At least you're allowing chit chat...

 

So, so far I've gone to Walmart, Target, Big Lots and the .99 Store and can't find a white plastic bowl to make a "beauty dish"

btw, doesn't Danielle look kinda like Katie Holmes?

 

at the chit chat!

is300, nothing in the tupperware section?

 

Home Depot. I forgot what it was called but its that part that goes under a flower/plant part. Kinda like a tray/dish. It's plastic.

 

Not white. They're all transparent. I'll probably just get whatever and either spray paint or plastidip it white.

I'll try Home Depot

 

IMO, no not at all.

 

well, I said "kinda"... but for you to say NOT AT ALL?? REALLY?





if you say so...



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hm... yea i see what you see.

i take back my statement.

 

big effin'

 

I know! They are awesome!

What Miz said. Miz is my auto reply bot. lol

 

 

I'm glad you answered the questions. It's nice that others can jump in if they know the answers.