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Cardboard cone for Kacey beauty dish
I read a lot in web forums about beauty dishes and most of the issues about using speedlights in beauty disches were about the different charakter of the light between speedlights and studio flashes. So I thought it could be a way to change the speedlight character a little bit into studio light direction by adding a cone in the inside of the deflector. The prototype is just made of cardboard and silver foil, but to me it looks like that it works. I think the beautydish looks brighter. The two pictures (with cone / without cone) were made with exactly the same settings. I think, that the shape of the cone will have an effect of the character of the light. Maybe this little experiment is usefull for you.
Cardboard cone for Kacey beauty dish
I read a lot in web forums about beauty dishes and most of the issues about using speedlights in beauty disches were about the different charakter of the light between speedlights and studio flashes. So I thought it could be a way to change the speedlight character a little bit into studio light direction by adding a cone in the inside of the deflector. The prototype is just made of cardboard and silver foil, but to me it looks like that it works. I think the beautydish looks brighter. The two pictures (with cone / without cone) were made with exactly the same settings. I think, that the shape of the cone will have an effect of the character of the light. Maybe this little experiment is usefull for you.