CM's DIY beauty dish

challengemaster · 12-01-2009 6:38pm #1

2009 - My year of taking up strobist-ism

Figured I'd make a beauty dish as one of the many DIY items I'll be making.

Quick trip to woodies payed off, as I found something perfect to make it from, and got a few other tools needed

So then, onto the actual progress/making so far.

I started off by painting the inside of the pot thingy white, this will reflect light (hopefully) and possibly diffuse it too.

Here it is drying off:

and then proceeded to paint the outside black, so that it doesn't look like a plant pot, rather a piece of photographic equipment

Again, drying off:

At the moment, It's in the garage for another while, I want to make sure it's fully dry before doing any more. I'll update with more pics whenever there's more progress

soccerc · 12-01-2009 6:45pm

Good idea.....

... and here's something that was recommended to me today

In Aldi this Thursday for €29.99, Lidl have a similar offer too this week

challengemaster · 12-01-2009 6:51pm

soccerc wrote: »

Good idea.....

... and here's something that was recommended to me today

In Aldi this Thursday for €29.99, Lidl have a similar offer too this week

Oooh, Thank you very much kind sir.

AnCatDubh · 12-01-2009 7:00pm

I saw one somewhere with a plate microwave lid/top. Looks like a lot of fun.

mikeanywhere · 12-01-2009 7:10pm

A mate of mine transformed the top of a bbq and it works a friggin treat!!

Ricky91t · 12-01-2009 7:29pm

Great spraying

challengemaster · 12-01-2009 7:31pm

Ricky91t wrote: »

Great spraying

I never claimed to be a painter! The mother is the artist, not me :P

stabo · 12-01-2009 10:56pm

What exactly are you going to use this for CM?

challengemaster · 12-01-2009 11:04pm

stabo wrote: »

What exactly are you going to use this for CM?

Beauty dish for a flashgun - off camera lighting - strobist... yadda yadda.. you get the deal

melekalikimaka · 12-01-2009 11:18pm

molc made one also... on the uber cheap... he might share it for all, some nice shots on his flickr taken with it

DaireQuinlan · 13-01-2009 9:53am

Thats cool, I've been meaning to do this for a while. Post shots when you're done + rest of construction pics :-)

ThOnda · 13-01-2009 12:25pm

And are you going to fire the flash into the baking pot or from the middle?

DaireQuinlan · 13-01-2009 12:28pm

ThOnda wrote: »

And are you going to fire the flash into the baking pot or from the middle?

I think typically with a beauty dish you fire it through the middle, but there's a deflector of some description right in front of the flash which bounces the light onto the dish. See here for examples ...

bovril · 13-01-2009 1:06pm

I think this was posted before but it's another way of making one. http://www.diyphotography.net/studio-lighting-flash-mounted-homemade-diy-beauty-dish

And another one from the same website http://www.diyphotography.net/just-fab-s-turkey-pan-beauty-dish

AnCatDubh · 13-01-2009 1:22pm

bovril wrote: »

I think this was posted before but it's another way of making one. http://www.diyphotography.net/studio-lighting-flash-mounted-homemade-diy-beauty-dish

I think thats the one that I saw previously. Note the shadow that it throws presumably because you are throwing the light directly at the subject. Me (who hasn't yet become too comfortable with controlling shadow) would need to take this carefully alright.

Not sure about the baking tin one - seems more appropriate to a roast chicken than photography.

Sebzy · 13-01-2009 6:33pm

I've never been one for flash use in beauty lights I simply love hot lights and have made up a few in the past.

The advantage would be you can compose the shot just like a studio modelling light while retaining the whole beauty light effect.

I bought a few "PAR-64 NSP 500w" bulbs and mounted each of them in foil beauty light shells.

The design was much the same as this one but with foil as the bulbs get quite hot.

Cost about 15Euro for each unit.

Took them apart on my last apartment move and packed the bulbs away.

CM's DIY beauty dish

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