Visico 60cm Collapsible Foldable Beauty Dish Softbox Diffuser with grid - bowens s type fitting

The Visico 60cm foldable beauty dishes allow you to take a small to full-sized silver beauty dish with you on location without the worrying the weight and size of traditional metal beauty dishes.

Featuring a unique inner locking ring design, the Fold­ing Beauty Dish lets you quickly set up and pack away.

The Beauty dish creates a unique lighting pattern on the subject offering a round catch light in the eye of the subject, often used in fashion and the beauty industries to create excellent skin tones which are soft and uniform. It is a device used to create soft light it works by using a parabolic reflector to distribute light towards a focal point. The light created is between that of a direct flash and a softbox, hence giving the image of a wrapped, contrasted look, which adds a very dramatic effect.

Included with each beauty dish is a removable diffuser to create a softer quality of light.

Features:

• Collapses down into a small carry bag for easy transporta­tion
• Lighter and less bulky than a traditional beauty dish
• Comes with front Diffuser giving you a variety of lighting possibilities
• Detachable reflector dish.
• Bowens S-Type Fitting.
• Ideal for portrait and fashion photographs

Tips on lighting with a beauty dish

http://www.diyphotography.net/versatile-beauty-dish-favourite-lighting-patterns/