This beauty dish lives up to its potential by offering a bridge between softboxes and umbrellas that yields a soft but crisp light with snappy contrast and a textural quality the deflector bounces the flashes direct output backwards filling the shallow dish and casting a wide beam of soft light forward it can be used in combination with a diffuser or a honeycomb grid which are included with the dish by using the grid when the light reaches the edge of the dish it is channeled forward in