How To Set Up Your Pixapro Collapsible Beauty Dish
How To Set Up Your Pixapro Collapsible Beauty Dish
The 60cm collapsible white 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 Elinchrom fitting simply attaches to the front of your flash, strobe or light and allows you to use this wide a wide range of different Elinchrom lighting. 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 60cm collapsible white interior beauty dish is a high-quality modifier which provides a soft, gentle light source. The white interior of the beauty dish creates a warmer and more natural light and look compared to the cooler and more contrasting light created by its silver counterpart. Since the interior surface is not as reflective compared to that of a silver beauty dish, specular highlights are also reduced, perfect for creating a more natural looking light source on 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. This beauty dish is designed to help save valuable time during a shoot, as assembling and constructing the beauty dish only take seconds. The rods come 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 beauty dish features an Elinchrom fitting speedring which fits to the range of Elinchrom lighting options.
The deflector dish reflects the light back onto the interior white 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.
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 more contrasting light source helps to accentuate the facial features of the subject and the round shape of the beauty dish also helps to create pleasing catchlights in the eyes of the 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.
The beauty dish is a high-quality and widely used modifier in the photography industry, helping to create a soft and gentle light source. The design helps to create a dramatic and unique lighting style without flaw, helping to create eye catching images for beauty, makeup fashion or portrait photography.
Diameter | 60cm |
Inner Colour | White |
Fitting | Elinchrom |
Compatibility | Elinchrom, Interfit EX and EXD series |
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.
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mickspix | 10 April, 2018
nice looking piece of kit
Was a little confusing to assemble as there are no instructions at all. Although rods are in place locking them out takes a little while to figure out.centre diffuser disc is only held by 1 post smacks of scrimping to save cost as I'm sure a 2nd would hold it more securely. Material feels of good quality. now mine is assembled I won't be taking it down again so the nice travel bag is not required.
Review taken from PIXAPRO Amazon Store.
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Amazon Customer | 07 January, 2020
Portable - good for location work. Not robust.
I bought this for on location pet photography. It is easy to put together and very light, great for location use when you don't have an assistant. The only downside to it is that after a few months intermittent use, the material started to wear through where the metal 'ribs' push against it, so I'm not sure how long it will last.
How To Set Up Your Pixapro Collapsible Beauty Dish
Ian Pack takes the Pixapro CITI600 TTL on location - see the set up and shots.
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