How To Set Up Your Pixapro Collapsible Beauty Dish
How To Set Up Your Pixapro Collapsible Beauty Dish
The 60cm silver interior beauty dish is a high-quality modifier which provides a soft, gentle light source from your lights with a little more contrast compared to a softbox. The soft yet contrasting light is perfect for accentuating facial features and helps to pull each single detail available from your subject, all whilst giving a unique catch light in the eyes of your subject. The collapsible construction compared to the standard solid beauty dish design is created to better help photographers on location, as its simple to construct and pack away and is lightweight enough to travel with. The Bowens S-Type fitting simply attaches to the front of your flash, strobe or light and allows you to use this wide a wide range of different lighting options. This is the ideal modifier to provide a unique, high drama look to your photos which make it great for shooting beauty, makeup, fashion or portrait still life photography.
The collapsible construction compared to the standard solid beauty dish design is created to better help photographers on location, as its simple to construct and pack away and is lightweight enough to travel with. This beauty dish is designed to help save valuable time during a shoot, assembling and constructing the beauty dish only take seconds. The rods already come attached to the fabric and central ring, and you simply need to push these down to lock them into place. This high-quality and professional set-up is ideal for saving time and is the perfect addition for location photographers.
The 60cm silver interior beauty dish is a high-quality modifier which provides a soft, gentle light source from your lights with a little more contrast compared to a softbox. The Silver interior allows the light to evenly spread for maximum efficiency.
The deflector dish reflects the light back onto the interior silver surface on the beauty dish, helping to cover the entire interior evenly with light, and then creating a light that wraps around the subject. This means that the beauty dish is an ideal modifier for portrait photography as it helps to perfectly surround the subject in light.
The Bowens S-Type fitting simply attaches to the mount on the front of your flash, strobe, or light to encapsulate the bulb and allows you to use this wide a wide range of different lighting options. This softbox fits our range of flash lighting and is also the most common fitting currently available on the marketing, allowing it to be suitably compatible with a wide range of lighting options.
Due to the shape of the Beauty Dish and the fact that the light bounces around the interior, it helps to create a light with more contrast compared to using a Softbox. The soft yet contrasting light is perfect for accentuating facial features and helps to pull each single detail available from your subject, all whilst giving a unique catch light in the eyes of your subject that replicates a natural light source such as the sun, making it ideal for beauty and portrait photography.
Included with the beauty dish is a diffuser cap, which simply attaches to the inside edge of the beauty dish, and this further helps to further soften the light being produced and to reduce any unwanted shadows on your subject. The extra diffusion will help the light fall more naturally onto your subject.
The honeycomb grid also simply attaches to the inside edge of the beauty dish which helps to narrow and better angle the light source, reducing any unwanted light spill and potential loss of light.
This is the ideal modifier to provide a unique, high drama look to your photos which make it great for shooting beauty, makeup, fashion, or portrait still life photography.
Diameter | 60cm |
Inner Colour | Silver |
Fitting | Bowens S-Type |
Compatibility | Bowens, Lencarta, Lastolite, Interfit (Venus, Stellar & Pro Series) plus many other lights with an S-Type fitting |
Grid Size | 4cm |
Depth | 20cm |
The main differences are the procedure for setting up the beauty dish, the sizes available and honeycomb grid included.
The Collapsible Beauty Dishes is foldable and compact which makes it easy to carry around. Here is a YouTube video which may give you a better ideal on how the collapsible beauty dish works.
How To Set Up Your Pixapro Collapsible Beauty Dish
To set up the Beauty Dish, you simply have to push down each rod until they lock into place. To fold the Collapsible Beauty down you would again just need to push down on each rod and release the locking mechanism. The grid with this will also have a much larger spread compared to that of the standard version, the small the spread of the honeycomb the more direct the light becomes.
Please kindly find the following review by Ian Pack for the collapsible Beauty dish test shot.
http://ianpack.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/pixapro-portable-beauty-dish.html
The standard version of the beauty dish will be made of solid metal, which means that minimal setting up is required. This type of beauty dish is great if you are using it in a fixed location or studio, simply attach is to your light and you’re away. The honeycomb grid of this beauty dish gives you more of a directional light as the honeycomb is much smaller than the fabric version.
Yes, this beauty dish can be used with speedlites. You will just need an S-Type Speedlite bracket in order to mount your speedlite to it, such as the S-Type Speedlite Smart Bracket.
Because the light from speedlites is quite directional, using some sort of omnidirectional diffuser at the front of the Speedlite will improve the light quality when using a beauty dish.
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David A. Selby | 29 June, 2015
PIXAPRO Collapsible Portable Beauty Dish Review
The Pixapro collapsible beauty dish is a versatile lighting accessory that is just the right size for location use. Assembly is trivial and there are a range of lighting configurations possible thanks to the various accessories and features. Output in beauty dish mode, with the deflector, is a good approximation to that “beauty dish look” many of us seek, without the weight and bulk of a rigid metal modifier. It also works well as a portable softbox. Build quality is good, though the deflector is the weakest point of the product; as well as being a little imprecise to align, it cannot be moved further inwards or outwards, which could be desirable for some users.
Overall, this is an excellent modifier for photographers using portable flash. As a grid, carrying case and front diffuser are all included in the box, this can easily become your go-to location modifier. I will certainly be putting mine to good use.
Review by Lighting Rumours, Editor David A. Selby
To see the full review please go to the following link below:
http://www.lightingrumours.com/pixapro-beauty-dish-7188
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Kevan | 30 January, 2018
Would definitely recommend.
Really impressed with the build quality as well as the quality of light produced. Would definitely recommend.
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simon hepworth | 10 April, 2018
Good portable light
Works very well with my Godox ad 600 nice light for a small modifier used for weddings so portability very inportant
Review taken from PIXAPRO Amazon Store.
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Chad Anthony | 10 April, 2018
The best of both worlds
It is as close to a metal beauty dish as you can get. The light it gives off just screams beauty dish. It packs up quickly and compacts nicely. I would buy again if lost or damaged.
Review taken from PIXAPRO Amazon Store.
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Stoyan Kolev | 10 April, 2018
I own few others and this one is probably the best one. Very happy with the purchase
I was looking for smaller collapsible beauty dish for some time. Pixapro 60cm is exactly what I needed. I own few others and this one is probably the best one. Very happy with the purchase.
Review taken from PIXAPRO Amazon Store.
How To Set Up Your Pixapro Collapsible Beauty Dish
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