Finely updated the lighting setup for this specific film area with a computer.. chair..
It's pretty easy just to film to the camera. Atomos Ninja V and an M6 Mark II at the moment.
Over here is what I changed. So I have these panel lights now from GVM.
It's a 1500D, two of them. And I was trying to find a way to improve
this setup where I had a bunch of clamp lights. Had those for years... and they they worked
and I used that specific diffusion. So these things are from UV filters.
Cut it in half, drilled two holes in it.. and I was able to make it work.
Yeah that is a sock over there. It keeps the shelf away from the wall.
Anyways, each panel has two of these screws that are used with its bracket.
The bracket that comes with these lights wasn't practical in this situation, so I took it off.
For some reason these GVM lights have two screws on each side which
is helpful for me and just adds more support. Obviously it's very difficult to access the
controls here but I can put that other one in slave mode so that whatever happens on
this light works on that light. Very easy! Also it has app control which is what I'm
using at the moment. In this case I can control those lights with the app I don't
need to access the controls. Also put clamps... they're
definitely not going to come off. Lights here as is, too harsh,
obviously the closer the light is the better. The larger the source the better.
In that case I use these... For this lighting setup I have
one of these on, just add a little bit extra. I do have the diffusion or whatever it is on
the panels plus two additional ones. It's using a lot of the lights 5500k.
Let me change that, but I have the option to change the color temperature.
We also have the RGB stuff if I want to do that. So you can see some of the extra little panel
of light hitting me on the side here. So at the very least I have additional options.
It's smaller, more compact, and I could obviously add some additional lighting somewhere else.
I wonder if one of my panels is not connected to the app properly.
I think I have it daisy chained so one of them is connected to the app and
one of them is connected to the other light. I thought I had this set up for 80 power, but
it looks a little too bright. I think at the very least it's more compact.
It's not as janky and junky looking. Let's do a bit of testing with
this light to see how it looks. Currently it just has the two diffusion
panels that are integrated into these lights. Just to help with the LED bulbs not as pronounced.
Have it at 10 percent power. The camera is at 1/60 of a second, f/2, iso 200.
Let's go to 50 percent power. That's way too much obviously.
Very bright! If we can find a level that's not too intense...
That could be usable just as it is but it's very strong to the side with my setup.
That's 14 percent power. So I'm going to put one of the diffusion
circles, whatever they're called, on there. Obviously that's going to cut
a good amount of the light. Much softer already!
So that takes me up to 25 percent power and then I'll put it on the second one.
Okay, so 25 percent power. That's gonna obviously cut more of the light.
We can bump it up. Not too much really. That's 34 percent.
Ideally probably position it in a different area with my camera and
everything, but again, limited on space. And then when I add that side light...
45 percent with the two diffusions plus the diffusion on the lights themselves.
This adds a bit of extra light on this side. That's at 10 percent power.
I could definitely bump this up. The side light's at 25 percent power.
It's a small source, not ideal. It's convenient where it's located and everything.
45 percent power on the two large panels, 5200k color temperature.
The camera has at 1/60 of a second, f/2, iso 200. That's with the sigma 16 millimeter lens.
Lighting is very important. It's not something that I've done
especially well, but I will continue to try to improve the situation.
I hope you enjoyed this video. I'm Scott of Photography Banzai, thanks!