I started a thread in the Glamour & Nude Photo Sharing Section with some photos taken with my recently acquired Kacey Enterprises Beauty Reflector and Kacey Bracket (link to G&N post).
I've been getting quite a few questions via PM since some people can't post in the G&N section. Since I've been fielding quite a few duplicate questions, I figure I should post something in the equipment section dedicated to lighting.
Anyway, I have a blog entry regarding the Kacey Enterprises beauty reflector/dish here: http://www.ocabj.net/?p=879
In it, I do explain how I discovered the dish and why I ended up going with it and the other options I considered.
One of the FAQs I've been receiving is who made it and where did I get it. Well, I title and mention the company several times: Kacey Enterprises. A quick google search will return http://www.kaceyenterprises.com
Another FAQ I've been fielding is how much does it cost. Well, I noted it in the aforementioned blog entry, but it was $330 plus shipping for the dish, double flash bracket, and diffusion sock. You can save $35 by going with the single flash bracket and save another $16 by omitting the sock.
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That said, it's about $300.
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Another FAQ is "should I get one" or go another route (i.e. Alien Bee).
Again, I sort of covered this in the aforementioned blog entry, but in all honesty, for $300, you could buy an AB400 strobe and an Alien Bee beauty dish. For a little more, you can get an AB800 with a dish.
But my situation is that I already had two 580 EX II units. I didn't have ABs, and was going to order an AB1600 and an AB800 last month, but ended up ordering an Einstein instead (which I have still on backorder). I had another shoot coming up and wanted to use a beauty dish, so I decided to risk money on the Kacey, which worked with my existing Speedlite and PocketWizard (MiniTT1 and FlexTT5) setup.
Also, the Kacey dish will fit on an Alien Bee, White Lightning, or Einstein with Kacey's ring adapter (~$20). So the dish is fairly versatile. The only issue with the Kacey dish on strobes is that the center reflector can warp with modeling lights. While they do make a swappable reflector that will accommodate short term use of modeling lights, I situation for indoors is that I would use the dish with 580 EX II since indoors would require low power anyway. Outdoors, I wouldn't even use a modeling light.
Anyway, there you have it. I just wanted to get something posted here in order to answer any questions people have after seeing my post in G&N, and who couldn't reply to my post in G&N.
, I may have to try out Karfeef's setup....pretty damn impressive results if I may say so.
Awesome pics of DEP: 
....did you just use your DIY Beauty Dish for those 2 shots, if so that's impressive.
