Hello Everyone, this is Rachelle and today I am finally going to share with you my home
studio or my bedroom studio and basically my lighting setup.
Really guys, i have everything I'm going to talk to you about other than having natural
light these are the key to my production [laughing] okay they make my life so much easier and
I am so happy to share these with you.
I wish I had some discount codes or something to give you but I just picked these up from
Lowe's and I've been using them for about a year or so and I love these ok so pay attention
here!
These are some lights some LED lights ok and they clip on first of all they're bendy led
light situation here, they're bendy and they clip on to any surface I think they come in
white too if you don't like the silver finish, I got em from Lowe's and I got em for twenty
dollars a piece!
Like I said look at that, that, I think this and this came with two in this lighting kit
here I think it was $200 a victor smith 500 watt lighting kit ok yeah, great but natural
light and a couple of these to fill in spots and you are good to go this light, I love
these lights ok?
I just can't event tell you how much easier it makes my life ok like I said twenty dollars
a piece I do have two of them I'm thinking about getting a few more.
Like I said don't feel like you have to spend a lot of money on this stuff guys and if you
don't have the money don't forget all those other sites and like I try to give you tips
with every video.
Opinionoutpost.com I told you about that a couple months ago I believe.
Go there do some surveys it's free to sign up ok do some surves [laughing] collect you
some money and get you some lights!
Go to HSN ok get that stuff on flex pay.
Don't you pay $1000 up front!
Get it on flex pay, Okay?
so there are a lot of different ways where you can save money to make your videos make
em look good and like you know professional quality without getting the soft boxes and
all of that so I'll put links to everything that I talk about below if I can find it I'll
put links to opinionoutpost.com.
I will put links to hsn everything that you need will be linked below ok so don't even
ask it's below please check that.
Um so yeah like I said these are my favorites though love them.
They're low on energy, they don't get hot, ok I can easily diffuse them.
What do I mean by diffusing?
Ok sometimes like I said I'm in front of the window and it could be too bright so if it's
too bright the I'm going to start to look like let me see if I can show you.
You see that big glow like that will be on the side of my cheek a little bit too much
of that, that means the light is just too harsh and either it's too close or it's just
too harsh um so what I will do - yes!
I'm gone show you everything again this is a home- a bedroom setup ok [snaps fingers]
toilet paper!
[laughing] you don't have to use that of course you can use kleenex or what have you but i
just look this is a bedroom set up I'm showing you everything that I do.
I would grab some toilet paper!
I just needed something to diffuse it really quick I didn't have any tissues on hand you
know kleenex and this works just fine ok?
Use what you need to use and if it's too thick two ply one you know, just separate it and
I used it and it just diffused the light so I'm going to give you an idea of what I mean
here like right now like you see?
How that's a softer light there?
but if I take this off you see it's a much, I don't know if you can really tell but trust
me it's a brighter light it's more harsh ok?
Wait a minute let me try it again so you can see ok yeah, now you can see, you see how
that's a little bit softer?
alright so you want to learn about light diffusing and stuff like that it's very simple.
I do the same thing with this light here, and again this is my victorsmith 500 kit light
set this is one it comes with two, there's the other one.
It's too much, it's too hot in here so I don't use that but just to let you know it comes
with an umbrella and that's mainly for diffusing.
This light can be a bit much.
It comes with this umbrella right here that's what the logo looks like in case you are,
ok in case you're interested in that, um yeah, and I can just add that to my little kit this
little hole in here some where and I can just screw it and I can add that on.
Like I said it does come with another one but I'm going to tell you what I use this
for, instead of using it for light because like I said I have this huge window and I
have my super duper lights and I have that one and I really don't, I don't really need
another one, ok?
But sometimes um if I want a particular type of light on my face, what I will do is simply
take my adjustable, mobile lighting situations that I have found at lowes and I will clip
em on to this light and it works just fine.
I can go as high or as low as I want to, I'll be sitting here and I just turn it around,
you know or do how set it up to however I need it to be if I wanted some overcast light,
you know if I'm trying to do some dramatic situation or something- where am I?
there you go.
I can just put it above me and there's so many different ways to set your lighting up
you just have to play with it but like I said these lighting clips you will love them I
really think so and then two for your background.
suppose you're sitting down right?
I can easily take this and I can put it right behind, right on my chair or beneath my chair
right there it just totally depends, and then I can light up my background, ok? speaking
of a background I just made this, I've had this background for forever, well not for
forever but for the last maybe 8 or 9 months and this table here I got from IKEA.
Ok? so I let me make sure this- this just seems blurry to me ok.
I got that from IKEA but the shelving I just put that in myself.
And like I said I want to highlight that so I can easily be just sitting here talking
to you while the light is just shining on my little ahh creation that I have made here.
Speaking of your backgrounds, you do want them to be as light, in my opinion, as light
as they can be because your light ok, it's gonna reflect better on a lighter surface.
If it's darker obviously you're gonna it's almost like it's gonna swallow up the light
it feels like.
So you want to try to keep this as light as you can.
I feel like it's not a problem.
I have all this light and I can kinda work it out and then light up things that I need
to but , you know, I'm just making sure that you understand that.
There are other ways to handle your light in incase you don't want to go through buying
all these lights and settin em up and going through all that.
You can always bounce the light, bounce this light off of this white wall and that's going
to get me light like if this wall was blue it would give me a different type of light
it would kind of mess it up a little bit.
So that's something to consider when you're thinking about your backgrounds, also you
can set your light up this light or this light whatever to bounce off of um they have these
things I think they're called reflectors and it - guys, it's Reynolds Wrap!
Ok and I use it sometimes, you know what?
hold on.
K Reynolds Wrap! that's pretty much all it is and you bounce the light off of the reynolds
wrap ok and then angle like you need this on a board or something guys, you know put
it on something like a um cardboard a piece of cardboard, just tape it around that and
you can like tape it right here, ok tape it where ever, you can set it somewhere set it
under your face and just position it so that the light is reflecting right back on whatever
you're tying to light.
So it could be you, it could be your background it could be anything and you're not using
anymore, electricity any more energy to get that done and it's cost efficient and inexpensive.
so I'm trying to think if there is anything else I can tell you about my lighting situation
pretty much that's it guys um, yeah this is kind of what you see um like my camera's right
here and this is pretty much what you see I try to close it in on me but that is my
bedroom studio.
there are a lot of different ways to get some inexpensive good lighting in here, like I
said I told you about diffusing just play with it guys, don't feel like you have to
go these camera shops and get all this stuff 'cause you don't.
um eventually sure you want to it's fun and all of that but you don't you don't have to
do it like that um there is a way well here's a beginning way and I've been doing this for
5 years [laughing] and I'm still choosing to do it this way so I hope you guys have
enjoyed this information let me know if there's anything else you want to know about my lighting
um and like I said hopefully this was helpful to you and I'll see you soon on the next one
and I'll talk to you soon, Bye!