Bring your photography to the next level with the Glow 17" White Beauty Dish, specifically designed for Balcar White Lighting & Alien Bees. This high-quality light modifier is renowned for creating stunning portraiture and fashion images, thanks to its unique double parabolic reflector system. The Glow Beauty Dish expertly combines the qualities of a direct flash and a softbox, delivering a wrap-around look that's similar to a softbox but with enhanced contrast and a more dramatic, directed beam. Its white finish not only softens the output but also heightens contrast and brings out the intricate details of your subject. This versatile beauty dish is compatible with most brands of studio flash and monolights, attaching via speed rings that are sold separately. With its 17" diameter, it's ideal for head and shoulder portraits, dramatic figure studies, or subjects in tight spaces where softboxes and umbrellas can't perform. The design of the Glow Beauty Dish includes a small opaque reflective cover suspended directly over the front of the light source, preventing direct light from hitting the subject. The light bounces off the small interior disk and floods the larger bowl of the beauty dish, resulting in a softer, wider cast of light than a standard reflector and far superior to the harshness of a speedlight. The position of the center reflector cap is adjustable, allowing you to control the spread to the large bowl and accommodate tall or high wattage modeling lights. The dish also includes a diffusion fabric panel, or "sock," which softens the ring of focused light, lowers contrast, and softens shadow edges. Photographers often use the 17" to 22" Glow Beauty Dish with monolights, flash heads, and speedlights for flattering people shots, especially for sculpting facial features and creating beautiful shadows and catch lights. The optional Glow honeycomb grid can be added to gain more control of the light source's beam and feather the hard light for an attractive shadow. The Glow 17" White Beauty Dish is a durable, efficient, and professional tool that adds more dimension and tactile sensation to your visual experience, making it an essential addition to your photography equipment.