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.

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

to whatever light; 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.

you simply.. simply.. 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 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

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 bit
on the privier side, but you can buy other

constant video lights on amazone
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 aputure 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

and if you like that kind of thing, but
the purpose for this video

we're just using it has a 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 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.