5 Ways I Use A Beauty Dish

[@taygunozbcakc8846]

It is sad that people do not appreciate your effort but the way you edited the photos. I did not have a beauty dish but even that video help me to start considering it. Thanks !

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

I appreciate that! If they miss out because they are focused on the wrong thing then it's their loss unfortunately. Happy to help those that are willing to receive it! 😁👍

[@3GO3US]

@@MiguelQuilesJr its cool, but i think the guy has a point. The key of the video is watching the raw light that you are getting shot by shot, so... If you post the edited images, you are actually "faking" the results. Thanks anyway.

[@chowlokcheong9553]

go，

[@MikeMargate]

One of the best and clearest videos on lighting I have ever seen. Well done!

[@stephanyfaycohen3842]

Many thanks, Miguel, for a great and informative video tutorial. Loving all the versitility with the softbox/beauty dish and layerings of the backdrop. GOD bless you.

[@javierborrero7525]

Miguel I went to Imaging USA 2022. I saw your presentation at expo. Nice. Congratulations and thank you for your recommendations.

[@josephchan4198]

I like how you edit the photos after and teaching style. Great work as always.

[@anzaeria]

Stunningly beautiful model. And great lighting too of course.

[@Bishnu_Deb]

I love all those 5 ways of using beauty dish. Thank you so much for this awesome video which impressed me enough to hit the subscribe button. Hope to see more such videos in future.

[@antisocialpictures4784]

I love beauty dishes, particularly when the client has great skin. But I've never tried pairing them with large modifiers particularly in that stacked fashion. Will definitely consider that sometime.

[@kenzotomo]

Thank you for giving me great advices. English is not my home language, but your clear pronunciations and clever way of explanations are quite helpful and comfortable to listen to. You are making me feel to get a new Profoto B10 and a Beauty dish.

[@TMM6900]

i love the last setup, big soft light + extra little punch. Tasty

[@scottedwards5191]

Nice as always, Miguel... was looking for some thoughts about a larger light supplemented by a beauty dish. I'm shooting senior high prom couples - this was a nice set of options that inspires. Thank you!

[@Allen-Trav]

Great set ups Planning to try some of these with a model today.

[@davidstone408]

Just started following you from video you did with Vanessa Joy, only comment would be and it’s based on Vanessa’s videos on flash work, it’s nice to see before and after so the affect of what you are doing is clearly shown to the audience.

[@wilhelmrosenthal1305]

hands down the best tutor on youtube

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

Thanks for the love and support!!

[@chafrewilcha]

Cool teaching style; & thanks for the tight images. Great work, Miguel!

[@specialized41]

I love this pic with beauty dish in the back over his head. Nice separation.

[@CabreraGlam]

By far the most informative and understandable video I’ve watched over beauty dish techniques, thank you for this 🙌🏽

[@shadyninja1]

Thanks I learnt something from this short and sweet video. You make that woman look good

[@larryb0315]

Hi Miguel, this is a great video! Thanks for sharing it. Can you share your f/stop settings you used for the clamshell two light set up? Also did you use a meter to determin where they would be set at or did you "eye-ball" it?

[@jameskrick9101]

Hey Miguel. Thank you so much for providing incredibly educational information. What I would love to see in future videos would be if you could go in-depth after each photo, and point out specifically how they have changed. And maybe include a side-by-side comparison, as well as including pros and cons of each type, when you would use each one etc. Thanks for all the great info!

[@charlesstephens5974]

I would like to know that too, I experimented with a small gridded BD in front of 12x55 , it’s the specularity of the BD that makes the kick, the power for all intents and purposes was the same.

[@joshuatalley9170]

Nice video and very informational set ups, will be trying all 5 set ups. What were your light settings, I believe you only gave your camera settings.

[@guyphoto9437]

Actually Miguel the first lighting setup you used is not "clamshell lighting" it's butterfly or paramount lighting, because it generally leaves a butterfly pattern created by a shadow under the nose--which is visible in your image. Clam shell lighting is when you have two lights, a light about 45 degrees above and in front, and a light about 45 degrees under shooting up toward the model. In that case you can't use a posing table. Or you have the upper light and a reflector, in my case I use a rectangular reflector which I had made and I sit one end on the posing table and angle it upward a few degrees on the end closest to me. This removes the shadow under the nose and chin and under the eyes and leaves a nice catchlight in their eyes. If your reflector is flat it just scatters the light, and the result is not as pleasing. This works whether you're using a beauty dish or a softbox. If using softboxes I use a small strip box as my lower light and a large softbox as my upper light.

[@brianasealy6257]

I love this series!! I am a one light shooter 45 degrees camera left, but really am trying to add more lights in!! So this helps so much :)

[@Fortraiture]

I use it as main , fill, hair light as well. The magic is in the distance and angle. Great demo

[@paulkarassr6253]

Nice video - loved your work at shutterfest in 2017 when I saw you there! Quick question - once you place the diffusion screen on the beauty dish, don't you just have a soft box? Haven't you lost the focus point that that little dish inside of the beauty dish creates? thanks.

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

Thank you! Those were such good days. As for the question, it still serves to give you the look of a beauty dish, but slightly softer. You can basically turn any hard light source into a somewhat softer source by using the diffusion fabric.

[@andreak4280]

thanks for throwing out some various ways to use the beauty dish Miguel, always appreciate your efforts in sharing your knowledge. my question is in regard to your fifth tip and having the beauty dish put in front of your main light of the OCTO for a little bit more punch, what is the power ratio difference when you do this technique between the two lights? if the octa is the main light and the beauty dish a little bit of fill, are you using 1,2, 3 stop difference in power between the two lights? thanks for any additional info and for making your vids🙏🏼

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

My pleasure, and great question! My process for balancing lights is really to my own tastes. I usually start off with the main light (the beauty dish in this case), and get that looking the way I'd like. Then from there I add the octa and start adjusting the power up and down until I reach a nice balance. Sometimes it might be a 1 stop difference, other times a bit more. All depends on how I want to sculpt the light. I recommend doing the same as this will change depending on the person's face in front of you. Hope that helps!

[@andreak4280]

@@MiguelQuilesJr thank you for your reply Miguel! i understand & it helps, i figured i will have to experiment as i have never yet shot portraits with 2 lights in relationship to each other like this (main-fill so close together) it does look nice👌🏼 appreciate you my friend, you make it very easy to follow / learn.

[@luissalazar2021]

Brother you’re the best! Thank for sharing

[@manoharmgr8235]

வீடியோ மிகவும் பயனுள்ளதாக இருந்தது மிக்க நன்றி இரா.மனோகர் சென்னை . Very useful video sir, I learned lot from it, looking forward more videos like this keep it up good work, thanks a lot sirbig thank you R.MANOHAR ,Chennai.

[@whatever5143]

Came from Tony Northrup channel. Extremely impressive lighting and posing. Look forward to future vidoes!

[@babiszfotograf]

Thank You. You opened my eyes. I am asking for a film about using BD for outdoor photos.

[@erikpratama6039]

Hey Miquel, i appreciate your tutorial very much! i believe many aspiring photographer out there, like me also, surely can apreciate your work and get much information from your educative video. As far as my photography journey progressing, i see that editing as part of the process making the great image. Absolutely there is nothing wrong with editing process, as would the photographer from the film era using darkroom to process their negative roll. The problem is many normal people / non photographer would think that great image is the result of heavy editing process, but the biggest portion of making great image is actually already done in-camera. Editing is like the finishing touch, to make sure that the image result is as close as your creative vision can be.

[@timothybudiman7972]

Hey Miguel, really like the 4th beauty dish configuration you showed. Would like to see you elaborate more on that setup in a video.

[@timothybudiman7972]

I mean where the beauty dish is set on the back and reflecting on a white wall towards the model's face.

[@ajaxrodriguez8956]

Beautiful shots! Thanks for the demonstrations.

[@DanielReprieto]

Awesome video! She say to follow and understand. Thanks for taking the time to create all of your How-To videos.

[@FranklinLiranzo]

fantastic, to the point video with amazing results!! thank you !!

[@stephenfrey6038]

Thanks! Learned so much from this video!

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

Happy to hear it! Be sure to subscribe as I have some more videos like this posting up soon 📸

[@dongordonphoto]

similar to your beauty dish, I have the Profoto Softlight Reflector (I call it a beauty dish) - I like using it with the diffuser and eyelighter for headshots

[@stevestrother6313]

Great video! Thank you!

[@revocolor]

Great video Miguel thank you for sharing. Is there a link for 5 different images, would love to take a look at catch lights closer.

[@andrewj6231]

Great shots and presentation .. I wonder what the original images look like without retouching and editing.

[@jhogeluceno7961]

just found out about your youtube channel now from manny ortiz, i would say you deserve more viewers with the things that you are teaching, great job man , hope to see more videos from you :)

[@piepayal8777]

Hi! hank you for the video. I am confused though..How are you keeping Shutter Speed 1/4000 and so on? Flash light images become black after 1/200th second isn't it? The Sync Seed

[@bbasham46]

very creative using the octa and beauty dish

[@luissalazar2021]

Good job team

[@mike_spotter_cr]

Nice one Miguel ! Excellent pics editing as well, beautiful model 👍🏼

[@SkiRinkevicius]

Never used beauty dish on my shoots. I have to buy one and try it. Thank you for sharing

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

Thanks for watching! My first ever light shaper when I started with off camera lighting was a beauty dish. In the right situations its an amazing thing!

[@SkiRinkevicius]

As I see this light needs a good skin for the shoot. Hope my models do not have a lot of blemishes on shoot day :D

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

This is very true. In those situations you can use a bigger light source like an octa. I'm saving that for a future video though :)

[@christopherlemmer6178]

Thanks for the video. Very helpful Miguel! Question on the backlit setups, both mentioned and demonstrated in the video. I noticed that you stopped down the aperture for both, down to F/11 I think while your non-backlit setups were shot wide open. Can you explain the reason behind this change in f-stop? I suspect it has to do with flare??? Please confirm. Again, thanks for another great video!

[@travis8665]

The model is gorgeous. So pretty.

[@HoLeeChit11]

🤦🏼‍♂️

[@DavidKatz]

Love that you are back in the video world dude !!!yessss

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

Thanks! I'm definitely in it 100%. Dropping 2-3 videos a week on here as well as my 2 videos per month on Adorama TV :)

[@EstebanAraque]

Great job my friend. Thnks

[@Chuubie]

4:17 love the Hair Light + V Flat bounced effect here

[@Chuubie]

Question!: Would we need a beauty dish + strip box (as you wrote in the description) to do that effect? or beauty dish alone with a v flat could achieve that look?

[@Richie5480]

Thanks Miguel, you explain it then go right to the idea, & shoot, so we can see.

[@madebyjovan]

Hey Miguel, may I know when to use HSS and when not to use? This is the part I'm always confused about...

[@idrivavipr]

Great shots.. please explain why shots up so close, tripod mounted require f11? Thx.. keep up the great work..

[@josephpoon6485]

ON YOUR FIFTH WAY OF USING THE BEAUTY DISH WITH THE BIG SOFEOX, WHAT IS THE LIGHTING RATIAO BETWEEN THE TWO. GREAT INFORMATION ON THIS VIDEO , THANK YOU.....

[@Shag]

Hey Miguel I had an idea I wanted to reach out to you about. I've always been a huge fan of your work and videos. I actually teach photography and seeing different techniques is always great. Miguel why don't you do a "REMIX" to your earlier videos. Example this video was created in '17/'18 but with you having 5 more years of experience, what would you do the same now and what would you modify with your skill level having increased tremendously.

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

I love this idea! I was planning to revisit this topic and the remix idea is something I hadn't thought of. Thanks for that and I'll be working on this asap 😁👍📸

[@krystofkalina3882]

Mate this is really great! Thank so much. To the point, brilliant execution, inspiring. Thank you. More of those please! You're the best. And if I could have one question... what were the power ratios between those two lights? In future videos this information would be for me much more important than for example the camera settings. But best to have both :-D. And base on what do you decide when is the fill too much or bit too little? Thank you again and greetings from Prague!

[@VeraChange]

Very helpful! Thank you!

[@Mr.JaysonDasco]

Do you have videos how you edit your photo like dodge and burn and skin retouch etc maybe the whole work flow

[@pogolas]

Such a beauty.

[@11557bexley]

Great video great info

[@lindacornelius1565]

This was awesome, I'm excited to use each of these setups in my studio. I'm wondering what your power is in each of the setups on the beauty dish? Thanks so much!

[@JerryMac1125]

Nice lighting, quite heavy on the Post for my liking.

[@MickPayton]

Hi and thanks for the demo. Can you tell me why you use high speed sync as opposed to normal flash shutter speed please? Thanks in advance.

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

My pleasure! I used it so I could shoot at a wide open aperture with strobes to make some of the shots look different. I could have done them all with HSS or normal sync, just mixing it up ;)

[@MickPayton]

@@MiguelQuilesJr Thank you! Appreciate you taking the time to reply!

[@barkyvonschnauzer2188]

Perfect!

[@aswin0909]

Beautiful 👏🏻👏🏻, what power of flash you used?

[@rafaelacarvalho8825]

Hi there, thanks for sharing your knowloge with us! Have you any behind scine video showing how to use a Beauty Dish and Strip box behind the backdrop boucing into a wall or V-flat? Many thanks

[@lslx7120]

Hi my man; may i ask if you retouchd the shots prior to showing them to your audience in this clip?

[@brianasealy6257]

Loved this video!! Absolutely eye opening!! :) :D

[@rickhelmke7893]

This is a new tool to me but I have to ask, on most of those there is a hotspot on her left cheek. Video lighting or is it something you normally have?

[@brandinshaeffer8970]

Love my beauty dish :)

[@julianescobar3404]

@miguelquiles im debating what lens to buy for portrait beauty photography, im not sure if to buy a 105 macro lens or a 70-300 telescopic lens. Please help me! 🙏🏻❤️

[@mystahgerri8178]

Hey Miguel what’s your thoughts on a collapsible beauty dish or traditional what should I get?

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

Good question. I own one of each but I definitely get the most use out of a traditional beauty dish. The collapsible I only use when I need something while travelling.

[@mystahgerri8178]

I think I’ll get the traditional for now and order a collapsible when the time arises

[@brandonelliotphotography]

A quick question - what boom stand are you using? It looks really versatile.

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

You can see all about it here! kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3m9eoisZqqSkJY

[@brandonelliotphotography]

@@MiguelQuilesJr Much appreciated! I didn't know Kupo made a boom -- I'll check it out!

[@retirementhobbyfarmdiyadve1511]

On the 5th setup, what was the power setting on the beauty dish; the same as the soft box or did you turn up the power a little for added kick?

[@actordesmondmcintyre]

Hey bro can you talk about the stand you are using to hold your strobes? Thanks

[@actordesmondmcintyre]

Nevermind I see them in the description. Love your work. I do have a question about live view with my Sony A7riii can you help with that?

[@robertocordero4682]

I liked ahead of time because I knew this would be good☝️

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

Thank you!!

[@garyhammond5267]

Very informative. What is the clamp and arm you are using to hold that collapsible backdrop?

[@dahrrg]

Thanks for the good tipps. Although I'd like to see the pictures straight out of camera w/o post production.

[@francesaguilar4769]

What is the raito between the beauty dish and the Octabank light? Would you ever use beauty dish as main and oct as fill in this situation?

[@phelix920]

Bruh! Man thank u so much for this video! Good looking out. Phelix. 👍🏾📸

[@antonioprince9248]

Miguel this was an outstanding tutorial. What were your power settings for the strobes used in this particular shoot?

[@ArtChickTV]

It would be nice to see all five lined up next to one another to compare and reflect. Other than that fantastic job

[@JDenim88]

Miguel. You have to show us how you took that shoot of the purple setup. PLEASE.

[@jamesdeak630]

Stunning results my man!!

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

Thank you!!

[@johananGR]

Thanks!

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

You bet!

[@PQPhotography]

Your work is the truth!! Awesome

[@FMFutbol2024]

Great videos Miguel

[@arossington1]

Why the heavy editing?? Post unedited shots so we can really see the outcome of each setup.

[@Duphe]

agreed. no sense in posting dodge/burn and phased pictures. have to know what the result looks like pre editing.

[@wezzojm]

@@Duphe I call bull, You can post that on Cosmo and GQ magazines. @Miguel Quiles his shots and post edits are outrageously good. Amazing

[@jjmerago1]

@@Duphe Do the work yourself, he showed you the set up and the final image ready to publish. Do be such a bitch, go to studio and do you own test.

[@jjmerago1]

Andy worry about your own work. If you spent a little time in post your work might get more than 45 likes per post.

[@philindeblanc]

Seriously, Whats the point if they are edited..Unless you show how much post that was. This was a video FAIL..sadly from Explorer of Light. More like a ProFoto commercial and a sign up to my workshop for editing lessons.

[@Dustinrhoades]

Those shots really pop

[@NLuxurious]

Great, thank you. Are you editing yourself as well?

[@bnkakl]

that was hugely inspiring. i dont have a beauty dish but i can some concepts with other lights :-) where did you get the silver grey backdrop? :-)

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

Thank you! It's a Collapsible backdrop by Savage. I have a link for it in the description for the video 😁✌️

[@bnkakl]

thank you so much - just checked it out - they dont ship to india :-(

[@carlossantini]

thx u! its better to show the pictures without retouch to see the actual shot with the light modifier!

[@vishaldeshwal5591]

hey great video but i am wondering how you retouch your photos its amazing

[@striper112]

great vid,amazing images!

[@sammieoleneme7752]

The 5th way, is the beauty dish a stop less than the octa? Or vice versa or they are both at an equal intensity

[@smalltalk.productions9977]

thanks for the effort and the sharing. thumbs up.

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

Thank you for watching and supporting!

[@TheStreamFactoryPodcast]

great video, #5 was pretty dope

[@jimhatch3091]

nice lighting are the shots edited or SOOC

[@jimmyhill9591]

"Which modifiers would you like to see covered in the next video?" Before you do another modifier video, how about a video on light stands? Perhaps how to boom a modifier above your subject without having to lug around a C-stand.

[@MiguelQuilesJr]

Sounds like a cool idea. I've got a bunch of different stands for different situations. I'll do a walk-through in an upcoming video.