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

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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 second
    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 panel
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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.
    - ok
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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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    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 really 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 apeture 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 to go ahead and add
    a lampshade, then
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    the whole look of the bulb itself when
    bother me so much in this type of shot
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    then I could change it to
    whatever color I want. so
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    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.
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    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.
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    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 at 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.
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    and lets move on 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
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    the background is even darker 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
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    we're shooting in a fairly small space
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    as you can see from this angel,
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    and the wall behind me is white
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    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
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    and using he Amazone Echo Dot,
    the smart plug, the lifx bulbs,
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    all the fun little lights
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    we had going on, and I 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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    so if you like this video pleas give it
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    subscribe if you're not already
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    and make sure to hit the bell. so you're
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    I'm just going to look at myself in the
    viewfinder now because this lighting
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    is really cool. you also enjoy my
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