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Realist
05-20-2013, 01:50 AM
So I got a little bored at the house and decided to make myself a beauty dish for my speedlight. I cut some pieces out of a cardboard box, and glued tinfoil to it. Then I formed the dish and taped the corners together. The center reflector is held up by bamboo skewers, duct tape, and hot glue. For the most part I would say it's successful, though I don't have a real beauty dish to compare it to. Below are some pictures of the dish and a sample of it compared to other light modifiers.

Here's the dish itself.

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Realist
05-20-2013, 01:52 AM
Here's the different lighting samples.

The beauty dish
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A mini softbox
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Bounce flash off the ceiling
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And direct flash with no modifiers.
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Runmonty
05-20-2013, 08:22 AM
Fun project Realist. This reminded me of the "Hack AttacK "projects from Cnet.au

hack attack articles - CNET Australia (http://www.cnet.com.au/search/hack+attack.htm)

Realist
05-20-2013, 09:46 AM
Fun project Realist. This reminded me of the "Hack AttacK "projects from Cnet.au

hack attack articles - CNET Australia (http://www.cnet.com.au/search/hack+attack.htm)


That's a cool link too, looks like a lot of practical projects.

Marko
05-20-2013, 10:27 AM
very cool realist - thx for sharing this.

Iguanasan
05-20-2013, 11:24 AM
Love the DIY stuff. Cool share and that's quite an interesting subject for testing different lighting conditions. :)

Realist
05-20-2013, 01:05 PM
Love the DIY stuff. Cool share and that's quite an interesting subject for testing different lighting conditions. :)

Believe it or not I stuffed him in one of my high school classes. It was a very hands on class!