LUMI II 400 Three-Head Beauty Photography Kit

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 30x120cm 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.

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 PIXAPRO® LUMI II 400 flash (Godox Gemini GS400 II), is a robust and dependable studio monolight strobe suitable for both the serious, amateur photographer and it’s ideal for home studio use. It’s also a great when moving from speedlite to studio flash, which offering around 6 times power output than a flashgun. Its small and compact with every feature you will need from a studio flash such as power, built-in receiver, slave mode, fast recycling time and flash duration. It’s also part of The ONE System, which you can mix and match any PIXAPRO range flash.

It offers an impressive flash duration of up to 1/2000th of a second, Short flash durations for sharper images and stopping motion. The fast recycling time at just over one second allows you to take more frequent shots and you will hear a Programmable ready beep sound when the flash is ready for next flash.

The PIXAPRO® LUMI II 400 features a bright 150w modelling lamp, and a 400Ws flash tube, that has a 6-stop power range (1/1 – 1/32 power) which can be adjusted in 1/10 of a stop increments.

It also features an intelligent slave cell (Pre-flash detector system) cell that can be set to ignore a Pre-Flash, which enables the use of the LUMI alongside speedlights or any other TTL strobe

It has 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.

Visual Flash Confirmation option is available to set modelling lamp comes on to confirm the flash has been triggered

The PIXAPRO® LUMI II 400 features a built-in 2.4GHz flash receiver, which allows it to be used in conjunction with the ST-III, ST-IV, ECO 2.4 or Pro AC 2.4GHz flash Triggers. This allows you to control your flash heads remotely such as flash power settings, Modelling lamp on/off, changing groups & channels and Triggering. It’s part of 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 with full control and even high-end cameras from Hasselblad, Leica and PhaseOne with basic control.

It also has a 3.5mm sync jack allowing it to be triggered by a sync cable, or other radio triggering systems.

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.