Beauty Dish mod to Diffusion Dish


The above video was shot using a Canon PowerShot G9

This is a simple modification I did to the Beauty Dish to turn it into a diffused light dish.

  • I took out the center reflector
  • cut the diffusion material to cover the front of the dish
  • marked and cut notches into the diffusion material to match the notches cut into the dish
  • inserted new zip ties into the notches of the diffusion material
  • attached the diffusion material to the dish using the zip ties
  • Done!

Check out the video and let me know your thoughts.

2 comments ↓

#1 mams on 06.08.08 at 9:41 am

thank you, michael. i found this through a link i found through another link - you know how it goes, right? any chance you could post some images taken using this? again, thanks for the tutorial and this mod.

#2 Michael Zahora on 06.08.08 at 6:45 pm

I will be posting some sample in a little while. With my switch to Nikon I should have an Nikon SB800 flash soon and I’ll be doing a shoot specific to the light mods I have made. I just hope my I won’t have to re build the beauty dish to fit that flash :-)

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