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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,
and usually it is
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in this room in the morning;
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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
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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
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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
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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
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and what I love about it is you can
position the head of it
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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
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of a glow and reflection on the
cabinets over here which
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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 light
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on this side light which I like
because it adds a little bit of depth
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to the frame.
Then we just lit a candle.
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All of those little light sources
in the back just add some depth
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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
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and actually how all of
the lights were set up
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in our previous office space as well
is that they're all voice-controlled
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using a smart speaker.
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In this office, we have the
echo dot setup. So, when we're
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lighting everything, I can just yell
at [meow] to do
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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
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multiple pendant lights hanging
in the background and
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I didn't always want to run around
and
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turn on each of them at once.
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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
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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,
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manually changing the color.
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You can do it on your phone too
but it's always just easier to just
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yell out a command and have it happen.
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so lets show you
a couple more lighting setup and
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they'll increase with complexity
as we go
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hey turn on the ring light.
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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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and do whatever I'd like;
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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
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lighting setup 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 like a
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cameo for a Reality show
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even just a really simple like interview
setup.
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yes we are using the one 20d2 as our
key light which is a little
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on the privier side,
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but you can buy other constant
video lights on amazon that are at a lower
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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 if you like
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that kind of thing, but for the purpose
of this video we're just using it has
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little accent light in the background
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and actually little pieces of it fade
on and off
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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
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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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