4 CREATIVE LIGHTING SET-UPS (From Beginner to Pro)

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.
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 sec
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 a 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 because 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 I 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 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.