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Hello and welcome back to my channel!
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I'm very excited about today's video.
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It's a topic that I have wanted to do
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for a very long time. We're
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talking about lighting
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I'm going to give you ideas for
different lighting setups.
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We're in a pretty small space
right now So, keep that in mind.
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You are not limited by the size of room
that you're in.
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But first, before, we get into the meat
of this video
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I would like to take a moment to thank
today's sponsor [meow] smart home.
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So, we'll be using their devices to help
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us make these lighting setups
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more convenient and intuitive.
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You'll see what I mean in just a sec
so let's get into it.
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We set everything up for this particular
lighting setup yesterday
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because we just wanted to get ahead
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so, unfortunately there is no BTS of how
we set this up but I am going to
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walk you through exactly what we're using
to light this beautiful scene
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that you're seeing right now.
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The coolest thing about this setup is that
most of what we're using as light sources,
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you probably already have at home.
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So our first light, our key light--
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Thanks Luna.
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As I was saying, our first light,
our key light,
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is actually the beautiful window that
I am facing right now.
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So it's a little bit sunnier in here today
than it was yesterday
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when we originally set it up
It was way more overcast yesterday
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and that was giving us beautiful diffused
soft light on my face and that's
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typically what I love
about natural light
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is it is really flattering
especially when it is an
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overcast day
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cause it's already adding
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that natural diffusion.
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But today, because it's much more harsh,
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and usually it is in this room in the morning;
it's very very sunny so we've
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added a diffusion pane
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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.
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Anything white and sheer that's a little bit opaque that'll allow you to just nicely diffuse that light source on your face.
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So, you don't necessarily need to go to Amazon and buy your own diffusion panel if you don't want to.
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Next, behind me we've got some
practicals lit.
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We have our own lamp that--
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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.
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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
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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.
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Then we just lit a candle.
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All of those little light sources in the back just add some depth and some interest to your overall shot.
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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.
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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.
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So, allow me to demonstrate.
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[Meow] please change the light to blue.
Echo: Okay
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I didn't even say lamp, I said light. She's so smart.
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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.
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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.
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It honestly just saves me so much time from walking over, manually changing the color.
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You can do it on your phone too but it's always just easier to just yell out a command and have it happen.
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so lets show you
a couple more lighting setup
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and they'll increase with complexity
as we go
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oh yeah> so as you can see this is
a very versatile setup
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yet very very simple.
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all we have behind us is an RGB ring light
that we got off Amazone.
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then we hooked it up to a smart plug
so now I can tell to turn it on and off
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to whatever light; however, this isn't
a lifx bulb so I do have to...
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the control please. I do have to change
the colors with this handy dandy remote.
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but I can do that all by sitting here.
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it's so easy. I set this up completely
on my own. well shone helped a little bit
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thanks shone. just cause I am weak
like a pelican. as our key light we have
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the aperture 120 d2 with
the mini light dome on it.
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and that's all we need
in a small space like this.
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we're just doing some really simple..
that was my shoulder what the hell.
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you simply.. simply.. we're just doing
some really simple split lighting.
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you could go ahead and add
a hair light to this. you could add a fill
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you can really dress it up, but again we
are still doing this simple lighting setup
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right now. so I want to keep it
nice and simple for you guys.
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as you saw with my very fun characters
and acting demonstrations I just did.
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this lighting setup can literally be
anything you want it to be.
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it can really set the mood for
whatever you're shooting,
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so whether you're shooting something
for the bachelor, or you're having
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a very sad moment, or I don't knew,
maybe want to have a dance party.
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you can set the mood
for your interview setup. I would say
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this is a very good, like
one -on- one moment if you want to do
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a cameo for a Reality show
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even just a really simple like interview
setup. yes we are using the one 20d2
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as our key light which is a little bit
on the privier side, but you can buy other
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constant video lights on amazone
that are at a lower price point for you so
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all together this setup could run you
for maybe a couple hundred bucks max.
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welcome to the second most complex
lighting setup we are going
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to be featuring in today's video. so we've
got our key light again
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it's the aputure 120d2 I've got
a bounce here just to fill the left side
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of my face just a touch. and we have..
look at this little crown light going on
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behind me. these are called nano leaf.
nano leaf lights, and you can attach them
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and build like all kind of different
designs with them. they'll actually have
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different like lighting modes to
different songs
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and if you like that kind of thing, but
the purpose for this video
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we're just using it has a little accent
light in the background and actually
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little pieces of it fade on and off which
is a very cool, practical to have on
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in the back. and on the bottom
of the shelf right here, we have
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a nan tube light; you could also use
strip lights that you can find on Amazon.
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but we have this and I didn't feel like
sticking anything to my disk area yet.
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so just to give you a sense of what
a little bit of either surface lighting
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or under shelf lighting can do to just
level up that shot, also I've small pair
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of peeking, can you show her. can you stop
distracting me miss; over here we have
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a little Himalayan salt lamp.
that's just another practical that I had
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around the house that I like to add
into my shots cause it's a nice orangey,
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warm light. this guy over here is actually
a lifx bulb it's the same lifx bulb
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that we had in the lamp in our previous
lighting setup, and the cool thing about
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them is that you can change the color
of them, they connect straight to the[maw]
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and you can turn it on and off that way,
change the color with voice control
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all of that cool stuff. these are actually
the bulbs that I used in the that
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previous backdrop. they just Edison
style bulbs. they do look really cool
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and vintage, and give of a nice warm light
however, you can't change the color
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of these necessarily, and that's what I love
about the lifx light if I just wanted
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to go ahead and add a lampshade,
then the whole look of the bulb
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itself when bother me so much in this type
of shot, then I could change it
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to whatever color I want. so for example:
hey change the pendant to blue.
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that's one easy way just by changing
the color that you can change up the whole
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lighting setup or mood or vibe of your
shot. the other thing you can do
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with all of these different smart bulbs
and smart plugs is you can add them
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to a group in the app. you can give it
a name, and then you can turn them
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on and off with the simple voice command.
Hey turn off the studio. ok.
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and obviously our key light which is
the aputure 120d stayed on because you
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can't use that with a smart plug, but
that's ok. it comes with its own remote.
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And last but not least, one of my favorite
features is that you can set this group
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to a timer so if I want to come into
my office and have everything be on 9am
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I can set everything to turn on at 9am
and off again at 5pm. so just another way
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that all of these smart accessories are
making my life that much easier and can
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help you create a beautiful, cool lighting
setup. This isn't 100% my taste,
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but it just give you a sample of all
the different cool things that you could
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add to your beautiful home office
background the thing. and lets move on
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to the final lighting setup.
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this is our final and most complex and
also expensive lighting setup.
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we have two aputure 120d. behind me
we have a godox light panel as our key.
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and we have a fill on this side. now this
took a lot of finagling. you might think
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oh you just stick up both lights, stick up
your key light , it's super easy.NO
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you have to play a lot with the depth,
how close these backlight are to you,
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how bright they are,
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your over all exposure in camera,
there is a lot of tweaks that have
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to be made for this setup to be perfect.
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this lighting setup would be perfect for
any kind of interview especially
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documentary interview maybe if you wanted
to do like a behind-the-scenes interview
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with an actor from a show or something
like that. I love it it's very dramatic ah
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I stole this lighting setup from
becky and chrisand they used it in a very
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serious and dramatic video.
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you'll notice in becky and chris's video
that the background is even darker
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in thiers.
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because I believe they were shooting in an
even bigger room, and so there will be
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even more fall off behind these two
apertures lights behind me, and that
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will give the impression of an even
darker background, but we're shooting
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in a fairly small space as you can see
from this angel, and the wall behind me
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is light, so it's naturally going to look
a little bit brighter.
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this one was a really fun setup; I'm very happy
with it.
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thank you guys so much for watching this
video.
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we had a lot of fun creating these
different lighting setups and usingt
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he Amazone Echo Dot, the smart plug,
the lifx bulbs, all the fun little lights
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we had going on, and actually have some
smart switches here in the office for our
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just house lights that I can't wait
to actually hook up to it as well
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and get this whole office perfectly
synced up with my smart speakers
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so I never have to move. I just can turn
everything on with my voice and we are
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in the middle of our office renovation so
I've definitely got a few new ideas for
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our lighting set up going forward.
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and I'm just going to look at myself in
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the viewfinder now, because this lighting
is really cool.
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you also enjoy my very tiny purse
these are my most dramatic sunglasses.
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I took three acting classes.
I'm sure you can tell.