Last month in this post I talked about how I lit a high school basketball gym with two speed lights.
The thing that I wasn’t able to get right the first time was the location of my lights.  I had to put them both off to one side and higher the basket.   The diagram below shows [...]

How does that beauty dish adjust anyway?  That’s the big question and it’s the thing I did not explain it very well.  So here goes.  Really, it is just a built up mirror on three bolts that can slide in and out of the dish.  The big thing is that each dish is likely to [...]

I’ve recieved several requests for a “how to” on the adjustable part of the beauty dish.  I should be able to get some pictures and improved instructions loaded up in the next few days.  Keep an eye out although I tried to describe it below if you just can’t wait! 

The beauty dish is a light modifier that provides sort of an intermediate result between a soft box and a bare bulb.  The beauty dish has been said to provide a light for beautiful people because it can show all of the imperfections in skin – especially if used wrong.  This is true when used [...]