d.i.y. light modifier : salad bowl beauty dish

I have been on a search for a salad bowl to create a large speedlight beauty dish* like my last one – originally inspired by strobist. Anything lightweight and larger than 12″ diameter has been almost impossible to find. But thanks to a local restaurant supply store, I was able to pick up an 18″ pressed wood bowl for the light modifier – finally getting the diameter I wanted. A simple transplant of the components from the small dish to the large dish and it was complete.

Below are images of the final beauty dish.

With Xander for scale:

Using the light mod:

*For those who do not know, a beauty dish is a light modifier that provides a soft yet directional light – a light quality in between a bare flash head and a softbox.