A Beauty Dish is a light shaping tool that is used in portrait photography and usually you can spend more than $300 to buy one. Many people in the
Strobist community have come up with ways to make their own for much cheaper. I built one for just under $30 and it turned out pretty good. If you are interested, here is the thread to the one I followed to build mine:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/strobist/discuss/72157604541039854/?search=diy+beauty+dish
This weekend I wanted to try mine out so I set up a little studio in the garage and Ainsley modeled for me for almost three minutes. I used the DIY Beauty Dish above her and camera left and a bare SB800 behind her to camera right for the rim light. Here are the four I kept:
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