So in this video I have a few technics on how to light your videos
On any budget coming up Hey whats up guys Sean here with video Influencers
helping you build your influence and your income with online video
And we recently just send a survey out we heard so many good responses from everybody
And one of the big questions is how can I light my videos well and specially if I'm
on a budget So I wanted to shoot this videos which is
some stuff you can do for free around the house or garage
And also a few good paid options to bring up the lighting level in your video
And specifically we are going to be shooting this you might notice the camera quality is
a little bit different On an Iphone 6s plus and the reason is that
it has a good camera but the camera is pretty average and specially needs a pretty
good light its not good like this DSLR over here that can look awesome in low light
situations but it requires some light it kinda maybe
levels the plain field for cameras and if you
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So lighting Technic number one is pretty well known but it's a great way to light your videos
for free and that's using day light and a window let's
check it out so one of my favorite options to shoot with
it's just a window light and this is pretty well known but maybe you've
never tried this before and this is a great way to make your videos
look awesome so as you can see in this angle I got the window completely open here
and it is illuminating really nice one of the other nice things about it is gives
kinda like a nice fall off like the background is going to be a little
bit darker that you being right by the window because of it just being the room light and
it also is good for people that want to have good skin tones and things like that but the
challenge is you definitely have to shoot during the day to utilize the window light
ok here is another example of window light now its already getting kinda later into the
day the sun is sort of setting but you can still see that this makes for kinda of a nice
soft lighting and we are getting the lighting off
the window and always just having your camera back against the window pointing at
you and then being kind of as close to the window as possible the other thing that you
can do with a front window light setting is add a what's called a back light and so
I'll talk about this lights later on in the video
but I just added an LED light to kind of add a little bit of dimension between me and the
foreground and the background now the next tip will be to just use lamps that you have
around the house and so right now I have like this Walmart three lamp I clip another
desk lamp on top of it and then that's a desk lamp and that makes for kinda of a good
lighting solution with just what you have sitting around
Now one tip and the lighting principle to know is that lights are measure by what's
called Kelvin and that's usually a one thousands
number measuring a kind of like Amber more orange indoor light to daylight which is higher
in the Kelvin rating which is in 6000 7000 range and whenever you find a light bulb
in the store it will have a Kelvin rating So I like this cool white bulbs that I got
at amazon and these happen to be 4100 kelvin and the key here is that I make sure that
all the bulbs are the same so that in one sense it
it doesn't really matter what the color of temperature your bulbs are but if you want
to make sure your lighting looks good don't mix
kelvin temperatures so just make sure that all the bulbs are the same and that is
gonna make your videos look a lot better
and then the third option will be to invest in some cheaper lights and in this scenario
I've got a couple of my favorites LED lights their
this little portable Neewer I think that's how you say it lights and I actually did a
video on them I'll link it up on the YouTube cards
on the screen but one of the big challenges with any lighting is shadows and so our thinking
even on this set is to try to eliminate them as much as possible
we brought me away from the background 'cause if you were sitting directly against the
couch that's maybe why you are trying to do cross lighting and you have shadows right
on the the wall so if you could put yourself off
from the background then the shadows can start hitting the ground
and raise your lights up then the shadows can hit the ground and kind of be eliminated
behind you if that makes sense but it's something I just tweak with because this lights
are you know pretty harsh they're very direct but these are great lights and I think
there's lights like 25 bucks and then the light stand I think you can get two for
20 bucks or something light that so I'll link up details to those but investing
Some money in lights can definitely be worth your while the other ones
To check out are LimoStudio's and those are gonna be softer they are going to be better
for skin tones but they are going to be like larger soft boxes so those are like number
one best selling on Amazon and so can invest in some like pretty super cheap and
affordable lights that are going to look awesome you definitely check out those
but the tips here is we went to we are rearranging these and pulling me off the
background and composing the shoot to kinda had the bookshelf and like
kinda like a rule of thirds all to eliminate shadows and then use these Neewer light
and then one other thing is that on this setting right here all these we've got these
ceiling lights and those are actually dim to about 50 percent so our goal here was to
make the background lit but a little bit darker and then focus on me as
the subject the other thing that we did is these light comes with different inserts and
you've got the natural kind of a cooler temperature light the lights that I had on all those
bulbs in my office but these ceiling ones are all kinda warm normal standard house
temperature lights so we did the orange insert to light this scenario as best as possible
so I hope these tips help you figure out some creative no matter what your budget is
question of the day what are you currently using to light your videos ?
let's connect down in the comments I would love to hear from you any other feedback
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just kinda trying it out today so I'll link a video to just a full review as well if you
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