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 right now 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 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
cause 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 pane
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.
and we have a fill on this side. now this took a lot of finagling. you might think
oh you just stick up both lights, stick up your key light , it's super easy.NO
you have to play a lot with the depth, how close these backlight are to you,
how bright they are,
your over all exposure in camera, there is a lot of tweaks that have
to be made for this setup to be perfect.
this lighting setup would be perfect for any kind of interview especially
documentary interview maybe if you wanted to do like a behind-the-scenes interview
with an actor from a show or something like that. I love it it's very dramatic ah
I stole this lighting setup from becky and chrisand they used it in a very
serious and dramatic video.
you'll notice in becky and chris's video that the background is even darker
in thiers.
because I believe they were shooting in an even bigger room, and so there will be
even more fall off behind these two apertures lights behind me, and that
will give the impression of an even darker background, but we're shooting
in a fairly small space as you can see from this angel, and the wall behind me
is light, so it's naturally going to look a little bit brighter.
this one was a really fun setup; I'm very happy with it.
thank you guys so much for watching this video.
we had a lot of fun creating these different lighting setups and usingt
he Amazone Echo Dot, the smart plug, the lifx bulbs, all the fun little lights
we had going on, and actually have some smart switches here in the office for our
just house lights that I can't wait to actually hook up to it as well
and get this whole office perfectly synced up with my smart speakers
so I never have to move. I just can turn everything on with my voice and we are
in the middle of our office renovation so I've definitely got a few new ideas for
our lighting set up going forward.
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