Lighting's definitely one of those things I feel like I'm getting better at and learning more about
because there's just so much to learn about it, but knowing the absolute basics of just how to
light a scene or light a talking head video is something that I want to share with you guys
because it's something that is going to make your videos look better as well rather than just using
the ambient light or the lights that are that come with the room - that come with the room? Like, the
room lights. And so Viltrox recently sent me out the Weeylite Ninja 200 which is a super portable,
small COB LED light, so if you shoot in a room where you don't have a lot
of space but you need to get decent lighting and a decent power, decent...
So if you shoot in a room where you don't have a lot of space but you need a decent light source
then this light is potentially going to be good for you. So at the moment I'm filming with the
Aputure 120d on the left and the Weeylite Ninja 200 on... no, the Aperture 120d on the right and
the Weeylite Ninja 200 on the left. So I'm going to switch off the Aputure 120d because
I just used that as an extra light to just give a bit more ambient light to the room.
So I'm going to switch that off so you can see how the Ninja 200 looks. So this is the
Ninja 200 at 20% at the moment and so it's giving a decent amount of light. I'm just
going to turn it up a little bit because it is a little bit low - I'm looking at my waveform.
Okay so my waveform is showing around 70 IRE so the ninja 200 is set to 50% and this is how much
light is, it's giving in the room. My room is this dark if i switch it off. I've closed
my blinds - i've got blinds behind me and i've got blinds to my right as well with a big window
so this is what the room looks like without any light in it at all and then this is the ninja
200 at 50 percent. So it's a decent light source and if i turn it up all the way to 100 you can
see how much light, how much more light it gives as well so i'm just going to bring it back down.
So the ninja 200 is a COB LED light, it's really portable it literally fits in the palm of your
hand and it weighs about 0.98 kilograms so it is really light and it's a bi-color light as well so
the kelvin goes from 2800 to 8500 so you've got that range if you want to make your scene warmer
or you want to make it cooler or you just want to simulate, simulite? If you want to simulate - I
can't speak. So if you want to simulate daylight. So i'm shooting with
the color set to 5500 kelvin or 5600 kelvin that's going to give you that daylight look
as well which i think i'm on, yeah 5500 kelvin for this. The other great thing about the light
is the fact that it comes with a dual battery plate so you don't just have to plug it into
the mains to power the light you can actually use the sony NPF batteries the ones that you use for
like monitors and stuff like that so that's really handy. So if you're going out somewhere and you
knew that you weren't going to have access to power then just take a couple of those
batteries with you and it'll be able to power the light. So depending on the bundle that you get
you will get a remote otherwise you can use the light with the app which is also really useful.
So there are different bundles with the lights and the cheapest one that you can get is $200 and for
that you get the light, a carry case, a lampshade, and the DC adapter, and for the most expensive
bundle which is only an extra hundred dollars it gives you everything you get with the standard
bundle but you also get the softbox, the remote, a handle, and the dual battery plate so that you can
power the, power the light whilst you're out and about. The softbox itself even though it's not a
massive softbox like the Light Dome 2 from Aputure it still diffuses the light quite nicely
so that's one of the things that you also want to consider when you're getting a light
is if you want soft light then you're going to need a softbox.
So if you've been looking for a light which is going to act as your main light and it's going to
be bright enough to basically light up your entire scene in a dark room then the Weeylite Ninja 200
is one that i would recommend and i've been using it as i said for my talking head videos as my
main light and apart from the fan which you can hear, i don't know if you can hear at the moment
but the fan is quite loud so if you've got your microphone close to your,
close to your light then that's the only thing that i would say is that it picks up,
that it might pick up the the fan noise but other than that it is a great light and it's
definitely bright enough for if you're doing a talking head or if you just wanted to add some
ambient light to the room if you used it as a secondary light instead and had a different light
as your key light, but either way it's really versatile and you can use it for pretty much any
lighting situation. So the other thing i wanted to mention was the fact that Viltrox are running
a global photography contest and it's running from April 1st to May 22nd i believe and i'll
put the link in the description so that you can find out more details about it but it looks like
there's loads of gear that you can win by entering the contest so do check that out. I've also put
a link in the description to the light and where you can get it so also check that out as well but
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