LUMI II 400 Three-Head Beauty Photography Kit (Gemini GS400 II)

The PIXAPRO LUMI II 400 Three-Head Beauty kit is the ideal kit for anyone who is serious about getting into beauty photography. This kit comes supplied with a Beauty Dish, which is typically placed centred above your subject, designed to accentuate your subject’s facial features and help pull out more details in your subject’s skin and makeup. The Beauty dish also produces pleasing perfectly round catchlights in the eyes of your subject.  This kit also comes with 2x  strip softboxes, which can be used to rim-light your subject, to further accentuate your subject’s bone structure, or to separate your subject from the background. This kit also comes with a 80x120cm 5in1 reflector, which is typically placed under your subject’s chin to fill-in any fill in shadows. The reflector will also produce a second catchlight, which is often desired in this style of photography. This setup works great to provide professional looking results whether shooting beauty, portrait, fashion or headshots.

LUMI400

Easy to use - The LUMI400 features a clear bright LCD display, with simply control to adjust the power, groups or channels easily at the push of a button.

Power – at 400Ws this flash will provide a burst of light suitable for almost any situation, it can be lowered to just 1/32 of the power giving a minimal of 12.5W.

Flash duration - It offers an impressive flash duration of up to 1/2000th of a second, Short flash durations for sharper images and stopping motion. 

Recycling time - The fast recycling time at just over one second allows you to take more frequent shots with very little waiting time

The ONE system - The ONE System, which you can mix and match any PIXAPRO range flash. The universal flash is compatible with popular camera brands from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Olympus, Fuji, Pentax

intelligent slave cell- It can be set to ignore a Pre-Flash, which enables the use of the LUMI alongside speedlights or any other TTL strobe

Automatic temperature-controlled ventilation- To ensure it is safe and protected when shooting frequently, the cooling fan will kick in to protect the flash when running at high temperatures.

Fitting - Compatible with a wide range of S-Type Accessories and Modifiers, the included softbox will simply attach to the front.

 

Softbox

Shape and Size - The Strip provides a narrow band of light, useful for creating side lighting for full length fashion or portraits or for a soft hair light.

Fitting - Including a Bowens S-Type Bayonet fitting compatible with the LUMI flashes, this is one of the most popular fittings on the market.

 

Beauty dish

Size- 55cm beauty dish is the most common side for beauty shoot. Being able to give the softer light but also able to show the details of the skin and make up.

Colour-  silver interior of the beauty dish creates a cooler and more contrasting light and look compared to the softer and more natural looking light created by its white counterpart. As the interior is silver and therefore much more reflective, specular highlights of the subject are more pronounced and detailed, perfect for drawing out and accentuating facial features of your subject

Accessories

Diffuser- This further soften the light being produced and to reduce any unwanted shadows on your subject. 

Honeycomb grid- This helps to narrow and better angle the light source, reducing any unwanted light spill and potential loss of light.

 

Boom Stand

Max and min height – it has a minimum height of 120cm and extends all the way up to 400cm so you are sure to not be without.

Build quality – it is made of a hard-wearing aluminium allow metal and has the unique 2 in 1 system which allows it to act as a stand and boom stand

Fitting/Attachment - Features detachable spigot with universal ¼” and 3/8” thread

 

Light Stand

Min & Max Height – with a minimum height of 79cm and maximum of 240cm, it gives a lot of flexibility with your lighting

Footprint Diameter – the large footprint diameter of 92cm, giving you a stable stand for your equipment and maximum stability.

Safety Mechanism - The stand also has a unique air cushioned dampening system which prevents sudden drops to minimise the risk of damaging your equipment or causing injury to yourself.

5 in 1 reflector arm kit

This 5-in-1 reflector allow you to alter and control your lighting, quickly and effortlessly reflect or soften light how you see fit. It’s  a perfect tool to help reduce contrast, warming skin tone, eliminating shadows or just softening your light. 

 

TIPS and Tricks

*Traditional beauty-lighting, consists of the main light, being placed centred in front of your subject, raised slightly above eye level (a boom stand is commonly used for this set up as the light can be boomed over your subject so that the stand’s centre-column doesn’t end up in the frame).

*A reflector is then used to provide subtle fill from underneath your subject’s chin. This kit also comes with 2x Strip lights, that can either be used as a rim-light to accentuate your subject’s features.

*A Beauty Dish is used as it produces flattering lighting, whilst retaining skin details in your final photograph.

* The 5 in 1 reflector arm kit is designed to be used as part of a "clamshell" lighting set-up with a key light

 

This kit has been designed to be setup to accentuate the face of the subject, using the LUMI400 with beauty dish facing down and the reflector as a lower fill light, whilst separating them from the background to make them the focal point, this is ideal for beauty photography as well as portraits, fashion or headshots.

 

For more information on the products included within this kit please see the links below;

LUMI400 II Flash

5 in 1 reflector arm kit 

Strip softbox

Beauty dish

Boom Stand

Light Stand

 

Please Note: PiXAPRO Flash and Triggering Systems are fully compatible with Godox 2.4GHz Triggers, which will allow you to mix both Godox and PiXAPRO Equipment together without issue.