Folding Beauty Dish
Guide
Introduction
The Glow ™ Folding Beauty Dish is a light modier that provides extra large
beauty light advantages with strobes, monolights, and most LED lights.
The collapsible, light weight, compact and durable design is perfect for the
portrait or event photographer shooting weddings, dinners, proms, or corporate
events on location.
The Glow Folding Beauty dish is ready for use immediately. No construction or
assembly is needed. Simply follow the setup directions opening the berglass frame
for a quick and secure nish . The exible structure is impact resistant and holds up
better than traditional metallic dishes, subject to damage in transportation and use.
There is no struggling with assembling rods or speed rings. The setup is express and
straightforward. The large collapsible beauty dish’s hinged frame folds up neatly to a
transportable size, ready for the next assignment. The classic look of beauty dish light-
ing is achieved by duplicating the indirect light design of a center deector disk that
is positioned directly over the ashtube . For an even softer eect, a removable front
diuser is included. The deector cap can be removed to attain a harsher lighting
eect through the diuser, similar to a softbox.
The Flashpoint Folding Beauty Dish comes with a Bowens Style reector mount that
can be easily be exchanged with any of the wide range of Beauty Dish Adapters (not
included), for adaptation to most popular ash head mounts .
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Precautions
• Please study this guide and store for future reference.
• The materials used in this product are not waterproof or ame resistant.
Care must be taken to avoid damage.
• Attach strobes with modeling lamps following the recommended
bulb wattage limits.
• Store in a cool and dry environment.
• Glow Folding Beauty Dishes are not designed for quartz or tungsten lighting. Pro-
longed exposure to high temperatures may damage the materials of the product.
• Beauty dish and diuser can be hand cleaned with cold water and mild detergent.
Air dry.
• Handle this beauty dish with care when opening and closing.
• Make sure the unit is intact and there are no missing parts.
• All photos in the manual are for illustrative purposes only.
INCLUDES:
• Glow Folding Beauty Dish with integrated reector mount
• White front diuser material
• Removable Wrap Strip Binding Closure
• Carrying case
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Setup Instructions
1. After removing the folding beauty dish
from the carrying case, loosen or remove
the Wrap Strip Binding Closure that is
holding the beauty dish closed.
2. There are 2 ways to proceed.
Both will require locking the beauty dish
on the ashhead as per the “Installing On
Flashhead”, either as the next step or the
last one.
2A. Mount the closed Folding Beauty Dish
on the ash you wish to use. The light
must be rmly attached to a lightstand or
support. Carefully spread the berglass
rods out to open the umbrella completely.
2B. An alternative way without mounting
on a ash rst, is to rest the back of
the beauty dish on a at surface and
spread out the berglass rods.
3. Push the ex tabs between each support rod
toward the center of the beauty dish until
each joint is straight and locked into place.
When the circuit is completed, you are ready to
use the beauty dish. Mount the dish on a light,
if you have not done so already.
NOTE:
Prevent stress on the umbrella material during
setup by locking the ex joints on opposite
sides, simultaneously, rather than in a clockwise
progression. Use both hands to lock the tabs.
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Installing on Flash Head
INSTALLING ON FLASH HEAD
1. Move the fabric collar aside to expose the
reector mount.
2. Align the tabs of the reector mount ring
with the mount of the light head. Carefully
align and lock the beauty dish in place by
turning the ring clockwise until it clicks,
according to your mount design.
3. Now that the beauty dish is securely attached
to the light head, cover the ashhead mount
with the yellow fabric draw string collar and
tighten to prevent light leaks.
4. When using an dierent Beauty Dish Mount
Adapter, follow the strobe’s instructions for
installing a reector.
INSTALLING AN OPTIONAL
BEAUTY DISH ADAPTER RING
If your ash uses a dierent mount
than the Bowens, a beauty dish adapter
is needed. The process is simple to
exchange the reector’s
mount ring:
1. Unscrew 3 thumb nuts and remove the
washers, leaving the 4th one attached. The
reector mount ring slips out easily.
2. The wide ange of the beauty dish adapter
ts into the support ring. Slip the adapter
under the 4th thumbnut. Fit the ring onto
the screws. Replace the 3 washers and
thumbnuts and securely tighten.
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Light Modiers
ATTACHING THE FRONT DIFFUSER
The included diuser material ts snugly over
the beauty dish front without the use of snaps or
connectors.
1. Unfold the diusion material and align the diuser’s
corners with the outside corners of the opened beauty
dish.
2. Secure the diuser by stretching the edge over the
matching corners of the beauty dish. Check that the
diuser covers all 8 corners of the perimeter of the
beauty dish.
THE OPTIONAL GLOW
HONEYCOMB GRID
is a powerful tool to gain more control of the beauty
dish beam, and feathers the light for an attractive
shadow.
This strong directionality can be used to add high key
depth for fashion images, and emphasis the model facial
structure as well as the eyes, lips, nose and chin.
The Grid attaches to the white Velcro strips surrounding
the inside edge of the dish. Simply secure the grid by
following around the perimeter in a clockwise fashion,
until the circle is complete. Adjust to make the grid
evenly spaced.
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Closing and Storage
1. Unlock the beauty dish from the strobe
light mount and carefully remove.
2. Press the ex joints toward the outer edge
of the beauty dish to loosen the tabs. Bring
the support rods in toward the center of
the dish as if closing an umbrella.
3. Attach the removable Wrap Strip Binding
Closure and secure it around the closed
dish. Slide the folded beauty dish in the
carrying case and tighten the draw string
lock.
Specications GLFBDS/W-28 GLFBDS/W-34 GLFBDS/W-40
Diameter 27.5˝/ 70 cm 33.5˝ / 85 cm 39.5˝/ 100 cm
Depth 7.75˝ / 19.5 cm 8.5˝ / 21.5 cm 9.5˝ / 24 cm
Weight 2.5 lb. / 1.1 kg 2.7 lb. / 1.2 kg 3.0 lb. / 1.4 kg
Shape Octagonal Octagonal Octagonal
Deector cap Yes Yes Yes
Bowens mount adapter Yes Yes Yes
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material and workmanship for the period of one (1) year from the date of purchase (or delivery as may be required
in certain jurisdictions), or thirty (30) days after replacement, whichever comes later.
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may direct with a copy of the sales receipt or dated itemized receipt. Glow may, at its option, replace your product,
oer to provide a functionally equivalent product, or repair any product with new, refurbished or used parts as long
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