What's going on guys! Today I have the YY 120 dimming LED light. Whoa that was a
mouthful I'm in a dark room right now and when I turn it out you can see just
what the light is doing so I'm gonna turn out the light right now let's just
turn it out as you can see the room is really dark so just with this small
little LED light when I turned it on like that now I can light up my whole
studio so to speak YouTube filmmaking any type of video you
want to do you can use this small light now before we begin the video I
full-disclosure this company digital photo sent me this light to review
however I'm gonna give you the pros the cons and I do get a lot of requests to
do reviews and most of them I say over 90% I turned down so I was interested in
this light which is why I decided to do this review I normally do about drones
but because I also do filmmaking though I do this review and also before we get
into the details and the nitty gritty I just wanted to let you know that if you
are interested in this light I put it in the link in the description below so now
let's get to it so if you're like me you'd like to travel and you don't want
to carry a ton of stuff but you still want the quality to be as good as
possible you're gonna want to get a small video light I've been wanting a
small LED light or some type of small lighting panel that I can use for my
videos when it's dark or I'm filming at nighttime and I haven't really been able
to find one I've find a few but they always seem to be too big one thing I do
like about this light is the fact that it's so small so lightweight and thin
I'm able just to either put it on my camera or I'm able to put it on the
light stand like I have it set up now right next to my camera set it up just
to the side you can see the shadow it's casting I could also move it to the
front and probably get rid of that shadow or back away from the backdrop
right here as well so there's ways to get rid of that you can also add
diffusion now this light is designed for vloggers or like I said before anyone
who's interested in traveling and having a nice portable light that you can just
basically stick in your pocket or stick in your back
and it basically takes up no space now in terms of lighting you can always move
the light away from you so like if I move this light away from me
obviously I'm darker now and if I moved it closer to me all right it's gonna get
brighter as you can see but sometimes it's a little too harsh like even right
now it seems it's good but it's one downside is the LED light panel
sometimes it's a little too harsh on faces so what I could do is I could just
put a little diffusion over it if you wanted to and that would soften it right
up but one thing I really like about this light is the fact that you can
control the dimming so right now it's about 60% and I can control how low it
goes all the way to zero and all the way up and I can also control the color
temperature from 3200 Kelvin all the way to 5600 Kelvin and that's really useful
right now my white balance on my camera is 5500 Kelvin so for people who do
color grading and really want to get that color nice and right in camera you
can use custom color like what I'm doing white balance with your set Kelvin I'm
at 5500 and then you can control just the color by adjusting the light so for
example I'll do that right now so right now the light is at 4700 Kelvin so I'm
gonna start moving it down and you're gonna be able to see how it moves I'm
gonna start moving it down towards 3200 and then we're gonna move it all the way
up to 5600 the nice thing is you can just press the button and it adjusts it
incrementally and it's all digital so that's one thing I really like so you
can just move it on the back I'm moving it down so we went down all the way to
3200 Kelvin and as you can see it's very warm in tone right now my camera is set
to 5500 Kelvin but you can see what the light does now as I move it up all right
we're gonna move it up 3,300 Kelvin and so forth I'm gonna move it up a little
more and now we're at 4000 Kelvin so we move it up a little more all right now
we're at 4500 Kelvin so I kind of like this because it's not too orange it's
not too warm in tone and for you filmmakers and people who use lighting
on a regular basis it's kind of like adding a CTO gel so
instead of adding a gel move it up and down and that's the equivalent of using
a CTO gel but you can get it exactly how you want it so now it might be still a
little too warm at 4500 Kelvin so let me move it on up to 5000 Kelvin all right
and that's 5000 Kelvin so that looks a little better to my eye I'm just looking
at my monitor over here that's why I look over here just a simple click of
the button and all of a sudden my white balance is perfect okay five thousand
now let's go even further if you wanted a more cool tone that's what you're
looking for we're gonna move it now up to 5500 and you can move it in
increments of a hundred all right so now I'm at 5500 Kelvin and you can see my
skin is much wider it's a much cooler tone to it and I think it goes up just
one more notch and yeah that's as cool as it gets all the way up to 5600 okay
if you want an even cooler then you have to adjust the white balance on your
camera now for me it's a little too cool so I'm gonna bring it down back to 5000
and right there it seems really nice okay so if you just want an easy studio
light you can add this to the side you can put it on your camera
also it comes with these little brackets that make it easy to attach to a
lighting stand or to the bottom of your camera or your gimbal whatever you're
using so there's this a little stand right here that I have that came with it
so I could use it attach it underneath my camera and put
the light to the side or on top and I could put the light to the side because
for me I don't like direct light like light right above the camera pointing
directly at me I like it a little bit to the side that way I have a little shadow
on part of my face and to me it adds a little more 3-dimensional tone to a
person's face or an image or whatever you're shooting your subject so that's
why I always like having it to the side so I think this bracket will come in
handy now if you want to set it on a light stand and it's a little hot shoe
you just put on your stand and this one also comes with it and it adjusts you
can just go up and down and that's real nice for just adjusting the light
because I never liked my light pointed directly at my face I like it slanted
down kind of mimicking the Sun when I'm setting up in the studio now you can
also use this for vlogging so I am gonna go out and vlog with this light and the
nice thing about this light too is it has a screw mount on the bottom so you
can hold it horizontally like a rectangle or you can put the screw on
the other side and hold it vertically as well so however you want that light you
can move it around which is really nice and it comes with these Chargers USB C
and then a USB at the other end and then this is USB and then this is USB C and
then USB female so it's got both the male and the female if you needed to you
could put these together and then you have two USB CS at both ends so
basically it's compatible however you want to charge it it's nice that they
provide this cords so you can charge it with one of these cords or you could
just combine them and charge it with the USB C's at both ends so it comes with
this little guide as well this little pamphlet but there's not really much to
it this is a really simple light to use you don't need any special instructions
in this video I'm going to show you ways that you're able to use it but in terms
of setting it up charging it on and off it's pretty much
self-explanatory there's only four buttons and to keep it safe while you
travel it comes with this little pouch so you could just put it in the pouch
throw in your bag throw in your pocket now another nice thing about this
lighting panel is the fact that it's so thin you could basically put it behind
you if you need it to light things up so for me I think it's good to use as a key
light a main light when you're traveling but you're if you're in a studio you may
want to use a bigger light that has a little wider spread to it and instead
you could use this light as either a rim light behind you or you could set it up
on a shelf or somewhere behind you to light up the backdrop so it has many
uses I think being used as a second or third
light are a little more practical set up in a studio however when you're out
vlogging or you're in a nightclub or here in some situation where it's really
dark I think this light will be really
helpful so with that said now I'm going to show you how this light looks as a
second or third light a rim light or a light behind me so let's go do that
right now all right so now we're gonna set up we're gonna pretend this is a
studio and as you can see you see that wall light coming right here but
everything is really dark okay so for this situation we need to light it up so
what are we gonna do well we're first gonna take our key light so our key
lights kind of like our main light and that's gonna go on our face so let's say
we have a light I'm just holding it right now for demonstration purpose but
as you can see I have my main light right here my hand and you could just
set it up on a stand it's a lot easier but let's say we have our main light
right like this now the background is still dark so what we can do is we can
turn on that small LED light panel that we have and that can add a nice
backlight so we're just going to turn it on right now okay so I just turned it on
and as you can see just that little light totally changed the dimension of
this setup now I got the rocking chair in the way so let me just move this
chair alright there we go that's a lot better obviously if we were setting this
up for a real shot we can manipulate it a little better just tweak it around but
you can see just with that one little small lie
panel in the background the background is completely changed the only reason
why it's not it's still dark up here is because there's this ledge right here
you know you might have to tweak it you might have to put it on a stand so we
put it on a stand for example it would look like this all right so obviously
it's not done perfectly but as you can see
trol totally changes the background okay so that's one way you can use this
lighting panel as an additional light to really change your studio or your setup
in your house or any setup indoors so in summary of this setup what you can
do is just put the light on a light stand off to the side or put it on a
shelf or anything where you can just it'll stay up in place or you can just
put it on the ground I just put it on the shelf below in the fireplace and
just point it it up and you can just light your background like that now one
thing I like to do is to use Rembrandt lighting or lighting that's a little
more like the Sun and flattering it adds a little more dramatic tone to it so so
let's say my lighting was something like this not perfect but let's say it was
more like this right if I have my lighting like this okay
this part is too much in shadow so you need a rim light or a light that's gonna
light this side of the head or this side of the body from behind and you can use
that little LED lighting panel to do so so one thing I do one really advanced
technique which is it really to advance this very simple concept I just call it
silly string you know silly string when two things are attached at two different
points that's basically what we're doing so if we have a point here and a point
here as we rotate one the other one goes the same way so it's almost like 180
degrees there are opposite points and they rotate so I have one in front I
need one in the opposite corner behind me I don't want them both on the same
side basically alright guys so we actually have rim light from both sides
this light is pointing down towards here but it's actually also so close to the
background that's lighting the background so we get a two-for-one
basically and we can see that light on the wall if I wanted to I could turn it
off my recommendation is to do one light at a time so we have that
light right there now we just add our key light over here all right so now we
have our key light over here so the key lights coming from this side
we have the other LED panel coming from this side and it's also lighting the
background so just with two lights right now you have a nice little setup both
for the side of the head for the front of the face and for the background now
this is just one type of setup you can do you could think of all different
things you can also adjust the color temperature of that backlight so I have
it at 4000 Kelvin right now so if you wanted to make the background warmer or
cooler you could do that just by adjusting it which is really nice and
this light has one more purpose which is using it just on your camera for
vlogging or for shooting if you do events weddings things like that you
could also use this light as well so let's go try that out right now alright
guys so as you can tell it's pretty dark in here so I'm gonna need some light so
I just attached the LED light the video light right on to my camera right on the
cold shoe right above so I'm just gonna turn it on right now as you can see it's
set to bad it's pretty good for a light and this is directly on top of my camera
now I can move it to the side and it probably look more flattering or more
over here or slightly on this side so there's a bracket that actually comes
with it and you can move it to the side I just put it on top of my camera like
this because that's what a lot of people tend to do but I might move it to the
side in a second but as you can see it lights it up I adjusted the color
temperature and also the brightness and it looks pretty good I mean just for a
light and dark light now I can blog with this or I can use it if I was in this
was like a nightclub a bar or event where it was dark I have this light okay
and you can obviously adjust and make it a little more flattering it's not
perfect right now but this is just a demonstration to show you what it looks
like alright so now as you can see I just move the light to the side okay you
can see the light it's at the side and it's a lot more flattering a lot
better like that and to me it's a better setup than right
above the camera putting it just to the side makes a huge huge difference so it
is starting to get dark outside so I'm gonna lower the ISO go outside and show
you what it's like vlogging outside okay so now I'm outside now if I was vlogging
outside like this as you can see it looks really nice in the background but
my face is still a little too dark okay and we just turned that light on and bam
we we're all good and we can just walk around like this and we could easily
vlog with this light and just walk around and it looks very natural blends
right in with the background and you can't really tell that it's a light
actually kind of blends in really well much more than inside so it takes a
little tweaking you got to balance the color temperature and the brightness and
I like angling it just to the side right now so it creates a little shadow it
looks more like the Sun a little more natural as I showed you inside how to do
and you can just use it vlogging just walking around and if I was walking
around provides plenty of light there's still a lot of light out and I could
raise the ISO but the ISO is at 200 right now so if you want to vlog this
can add to that now if it's obviously dark like I said before you can use it I
showed you inside what it looks like and to me this light is great because it's
so light portable you can adjust the color temperature you can adjust the
brightness dim it lower higher and you can use it as your main key light as a
rim light or if you don't want anything like that you can just use it to light
your backdrop or whatever you need to do so it's very versatile in that aspect
and it's also good as a second light in case you forget your main light you
could just throw this in your bag one or two of these and you're always good to
go so this light to me is more like an insurance light as well if you have a
much more expensive light that you want to use now the downside to this light
for me I'd like to see a softbox or something I
could put over it just to soften it up a little bit
especially you saw when we were inside it's a tad harsh but again I'm being
very picky about that and as you can see it looks great now but in a really dark
environment it would be nice just to have a little diffusion on top and you
can make your own digital photo might come out with those in your future for
this light which i think might be good and that's about it guys if you enjoyed
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