How To Set Up Your Pixapro Collapsible Beauty Dish
How To Set Up Your Pixapro Collapsible Beauty Dish
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60cm (23.6") Collapsible Portable White Beauty Dish S-Type
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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 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 60cm Beauty Dish attaches to the mount on the front of your flash, and encapsulates the bulb with the light falling onto the warm and soft interior making sure that the light is evenly spread for maximum efficiency. 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.
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.
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, ideal for beauty and portrait shots when you are trying to get the most accurate look from 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 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 beauty dish features a Bowens S-Type fitting speedring which 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.
The 60cm collapsible beauty dish compromises of high-quality strong rods which slot into the hardwearing material which softens your light source without altering the colour temperature. These are all attached to the mount ring which mounts the Bowens S-Type fitting directly to your flash, strobe or speedlite, allowing for easy access. The high-quality construction of the beauty dish is strong and durable, helping to create a dependable modifier that will keep working well for the foreseeable future.
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.
Features
- Collapses down into a small carry bag for easy transportation
- Lighter and less bulky than a traditional beauty dish
- Comes with front Diffuser and 4cm Honeycomb Grid giving you a variety of lighting possibilities
- Detachable reflector dish.
- Bowens S-Type Fitting.
- Ideal for portrait and fashion photographs
What’s In the Box
- 1x Collapsible Portable Beauty Dish with 4cm Grid
- 1x Diffuser
Specifications
| Diameter | 60cm |
| Inner Colour | White |
| 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 |
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Q&A’s
What is the difference between the collapsible beauty dish and standard beauty dish?
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.
What is the difference between the collapsible beauty dish and standard beauty dish?
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.
Can you take out the rods(and softbox) from the speed ring if you want pack it separately?
- Hello, Thank you for your message. I am afraid you are unable to remove the speedring from the beauty dish as this is fixed, as well as the rods to allow for the easy open mechanism to work. We hope this helps. Kind regards, PIXAPRO
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Product Reviews
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
PIXAPRO 60cm Collapsible Portable White Beauty Dish S-Type
With it being collapsible storage is much easier, once you get used to how putting it up and taking it down it is a joy to use.
Excellent professional service fast delivery
Excellent professional service fast delivery
Appears to be a well made product.
Appears to be a well made product. Will see how it lasts.
Lightweight, convenient, great light quality. Just buy one.
I'd had my eye on the Pixapro collapsible BD for a year or so before I finally got one. I've just put it through its paces on a paid gym photoshoot with a speedlite firing through it, and I have to say it was an absolute pleasure to use.
Although not quite as fast as opening and closing an umbrella, assembly and pack up is still pretty rapid; the little cylinder-shaped pack it comes in is great for transportation. The weight is a shade over 800 grams but most of that comes from the metal Bowens mount; it puts way less strain on my cheap stand and boom arm and is much easier to control in use than my old all-metal dish. Best of all, the quality of light it produces is very good, in fact I'd say it beats my (admittedly low end) metal BD, which I'm now flogging.
If you're swithering between getting one of these or a budget all-metal dish, don't. Just get this one. At the price I paid (£65) it's a little more expensive, but that's more than compensated for by the convenience and ease of use.
Review taken from PIXAPRO Amazon Store.
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