Hello and welcome back to my channel!

I'm very excited about today's video.

It's a topic that I have wanted to do

for a very long time. We're

talking about lighting

I'm going to give you ideas for
different lighting setups.

We're in a pretty small space
right now So, keep that in mind.

You are not limited by the size of room 
that you're in.

But first, before, we get into the meat
of this video

I would like to take a moment to thank 
today's sponsor [meow] smart home.

So, we'll be using their devices to help

us make these lighting setups

more convenient and intuitive.

You'll see what I mean in just a second
so let's get into it.

We set everything up for this particular
lighting setup yesterday

because we just wanted to get ahead

so, unfortunately there is no BTS of how
we set this up but I am going to

walk you through exactly what we're using
to light this beautiful scene

that you're seeing right now.

The coolest thing about this setup is that
most of what we're using as light sources,

you probably already have at home.

So our first light, our key light--

Thanks Luna.

As I was saying, our first light,
our key light,

is actually the beautiful window that
I am facing right now.

So it's a little bit sunnier in here today
than it was yesterday

when we originally set it up 
It was way more overcast yesterday

and that was giving us beautiful diffused
soft light on my face and that's

typically what I love 
about natural light

is it is really flattering
especially when it is an

overcast day

cause it's already adding

that natural diffusion.

But today, because it's much more harsh,
and usually it is

in this room in the morning;

it's very very sunny so we've

added a diffusion panel

If you don't have something
like this at home, you can repurpose

a sheer curtain, you can use
a sheet off of your bed.

Anything white and sheer
that's a little bit opaque

that'll allow you to just nicely diffuse
that light source on your face.

So, you don't necessarily need
to go to Amazon and buy

your own diffusion panel
if you don't want to.

Next, behind me we've got some
practicals lit.

We have our own lamp that--

I love this lamp. It's from (Streptube?).
I think it was only about $100

and what I love about it is you can
position the head of it

to kind of shine in any 
direction you want.

So we have it tilted at just
the right angle to give a little bit

of a glow and reflection on the 
cabinets over here which

actually quite like 'cause it's
a little bit golden

and it's a little bit higher so that
it's giving me sort of a low hair light

on this side light which I like 
because it adds a little bit of depth

to the frame.
Then we just lit a candle.

All of those little light sources 
in the back just add some depth

and some interest to your overall shot.

My favorite thing about how all
of the lights are set up in this office

and actually how all of 
the lights were set up

in our previous office space as well
is that they're all voice-controlled

using a smart speaker.

In this office, we have the
echo dot setup. So, when we're

lighting everything, I can just yell
at [meow] to do

whatever I want: to turn on lights,
to change the color of them.

So, allow me to demonstrate.

[Meow] please change the light to blue.
Echo: Okay

I didn't even say lamp, I said light.
She's so smart.

So in the old office space, if you guys
remember my setup, I had

multiple pendant lights hanging
in the background and

I didn't always want to run around
and

turn on each of them at once.

so I had those set up with a smart switch.

And, with this lamp, I actually have
a smart bulb. So that bulb connects

directly to my smart speaker
and it's really easy to pair.

It honestly just saves me so much time
from walking over,

manually changing the color.

You can do it on your phone too
but it's always just easier to just

yell out a command and have it happen.

so lets show you 
a couple more lighting setup and

they'll increase with complexity
as we go

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hey turn on the ring light.
- ok

oh yeah.so as you can see this is
a very versatile setup

yet very very simple.

all we have behind us is an RGB ring light
that we got off Amazone.

then we hooked it up to a smart plug 
so now I can tell to turn it on and off

and do whatever I'd like;

however, this isn't 
a lifx bulb so I do have to...

the control please. I do have to change
the colors with this handy dandy remote.

but I can do that all by sitting here.

it's so easy. I set this up completely 
on my own. well shone helped a little bit

thanks shone. just cause I am weak
like a pelican. as our key light we have

the aperture 120 d2 with
the mini light dome on it.

and that's all we need 
in a small space like this.

we're just doing some really simple..
that was my shoulder what the hell.

we're just doing
some really simple split lighting.

you could go ahead and add
a hair light to this. you could add a fill

you can really dress it up, but again we
are still doing this simple

lighting setup right now.so I want
to keep it nice and simple for you guys

as you saw with my very fun characters
and acting demonstrations I just did.

this lighting setup can literally be
anything you want it to be.

it can really set the mood for 
whatever you're shooting,

so whether you're shooting something
for the bachelor, or you're having

a very sad moment, or I don't knew,
maybe want to have a dance party.

you can really set the mood 
for your interview setup. I would say

this is a very good, like
one-on-one moment if you want to do like a

cameo for a Reality show

even just a really simple like interview 
setup.

yes we are using the one 20d2 as our
key light which is a little

on the privier side,

but you can buy other constant
video lights on amazon that are at a lower

price point for you so

all together this setup could run you
for maybe a couple hundred bucks max.

welcome to the second most complex
lighting setup we are going

to be featuring in today's video. so we've
got our key light again

it's the apeture 120d2 I've got
a bounce here just to fill the left side

of my face just a touch. and we have..
look at this little crown light going on

behind me. these are called nano leaf.
nano leaf lights, and you can attach them

and build like all kind of different
designs with them. they'll actually have

different like lighting modes to 
different songs if you like

that kind of thing, but for the purpose
of this video we're just using it has

little accent light in the background

and actually little pieces of it fade
on and off

which is a very cool, practical to have on

in the back. and on the bottom
of the shelf right here, we have

a nan tube light; you could also use
strip lights that you can find on Amazon.

but we have this and I didn't feel like
sticking anything to my disk area yet.

so just to give you a sense of what
a little bit of either surface lighting

or under shelf lighting can do to just
level up that shot, also I've small pair

of peeking, can you show her. can you stop
distracting me miss; over here we have

a little Himalayan salt lamp.
that's just another practical that I had

around the house that I like to add
into my shots cause it's a nice orangey,

warm light. this guy over here is actually
a lifx bulb it's the same lifx bulb

that we had in the lamp in our previous 
lighting setup, and the cool thing about

them is that you can change the color
of them, they connect straight to the[maw]

and you can turn it on and off that way,
change the color with voice control

all of that cool stuff. these are actually
the bulbs that I used in the that

previous backdrop. they just Edison 
style bulbs. they do look really cool

and vintage, and give of a nice warm light
however, you can't change the color

of these necessarily, and that's what
I love about the lifx light

if I just wanted to go ahead and add
a lampshade, then

the whole look of the bulb itself when
bother me so much in this type of shot

then I could change it to
whatever color I want. so

for example: 
hey change the pendant to blue.

that's one easy way just by changing
the color that you can change up the whole

lighting setup or mood or vibe of your
shot.

the other thing you can do

with all of these different smart bulbs
and smart plugs is you can add them

to a group in the app. you can give it
a name, and then you can turn them

on and off with the simple voice command.
Hey turn off the studio.

ok

and obviously our key light which is
the aputure 120d stayed on because you

can't use that with a smart plug, but
that's ok. it comes with its own remote.

And last but not least, one of my favorite
features is that you can set this group

to a timer so if I want to come into
my office and have everything be on at 9am

I can set everything to turn on at 9am
and off again at 5pm. so just another way

that all of these smart accessories are
making my life that much easier and can

help you create a beautiful, cool lighting
setup. This isn't 100% my taste,

but it just give you a sample of all
the different cool things that you could

add to your beautiful home office
background ​the thing.

and lets move on to the final 
lighting setup.

this is our final and most complex and
also expensive lighting setup.

we have two aputure 120d. behind me
we have a godox light panel as our key.

and we have a fill on this side. now this
took a lot of finagling. you might think

oh you just stick up both lights, stick up
your key light , it's super easy.NO

you have to play a lot with the depth,
how close these backlight are to you,

how bright they are,

your over all exposure in camera,
there is a lot of tweaks that have

to be made for this setup to be perfect.

this lighting setup would be perfect for
any kind of interview especially

documentary interview maybe if you wanted
to do like a behind-the-scenes interview

with an actor from a show or something
like that. I love it it's very dramatic ah

I stole this lighting setup from
becky and chrisand they used it in a very

serious and dramatic video.

you'll notice in becky and
chris's video that

the background is even darker in thiers.

because I believe they were shooting in an
even bigger room, and so there will be

even more fall off behind these two
apertures lights behind me, and that

will give the impression of an even
darker background,but

we're shooting in a fairly small space

as you can see from this angel,

and the wall behind me is white

so it's naturally going to look
a little bit brighter.

this one was a really fun setup.
I'm very happy with it.

thank you guys so much for watching this
video.

we had a lot of fun creating these
different lighting setups

and using he Amazone Echo Dot,
the smart plug, the lifx bulbs,

all the fun little lights

we had going on, and I actually have some
smart switches here in the office for our

just house lights that I can't wait
to actually hook up to it as well

and get this whole office perfectly 
synced up with my smart speakers

so I never have to move. I just can turn 
everything on with my voice and we are

in the middle of our office renovation so
I've definitely got a few new ideas for

our lighting set up going forward.

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I'm just going to look at myself in the
viewfinder now because this lighting

is really cool. you also enjoy my
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