- What's up?
You already read the title of this video,
so let's just jump right in.
Number one is something that you may not
have put much thought into beforehand, which is makeup.
But hold up, before you go, "I'm not a makeup artist
"and I bench 250 pounds," hear me out.
A lot of times, we're hired to film other people
and our job is to make sure
that they look the best they can.
And once you start throwing a bunch of lighting at people,
one thing that really comes across is sweat or shine.
And sure, that could look cool if you're filming athletes
or someone working out, but let's say
you're doing an interview with a CEO of a company.
A lot of times, you have to turn off
the air conditioning for sound,
and then you have to blast a lot of light on them,
and they may not be super comfortable in front of a camera,
so all these things, oftentimes,
they just get a little tense and sweaty,
and sweat can make someone look unconfident or nervous,
so that's when these things really come into play.
And I'm not talking about going all fancy
with contouring, and eyelash stuff, and nose brushes.
I don't know any of this.
Let me get some help.
Okay, so I found myself a female to help.
Easiest thing is probably a pack of something like this,
oil blotting tissues, and I think this was like six bucks.
The goal is to get some of that moist oil
off someone's face, right?
Do you rub it or just, like?
- Blot, they're blotting papers, so you blot.
- You just smack.
Come here!
Super cheap and small, so just keep a set
in your camera bag, boom!
If you're in a jam and you don't have blotting paper,
there's one way to get around it.
You can just grab one of these,
and these are supposed to work
decently well as well.
Just make sure it's not used,
'cause that'd be disgusting.
All right, so this is if you wanna take it
one step further, make sure your talent stays drier
for a longer period of time.
- So, to find something like this,
you just wanna look up either finishing powder
or like a matte powder.
Well, I'm buffing on the powder in a circular motion.
- Circular motion.
- And you don't wanna press hard,
you just wanna keep it light.
- I've never put on makeup before.
This is actually kind of nice.
On a set, all the makeup artists,
they will touch up the women and men.
And the key here, especially when
you're doing makeup on males
is to keep it very simple and light.
A lot of times, you don't really want them
to look like they're wearing makeup.
So, you're just keeping it subtle, right?
Just a little touch?
- Yeah, yeah.
- Okay, good, I don't wanna look like I'm wearing makeup.
Okay, I'm not Johnny Depp.
You're not putting on lipstick, are you?
- No, chapstick, your lips are dry.
- Okay, cool.
Look at me!
(screaming)
What happened to subtle?
What is this? - That is subtle!
- I look like a frog with makeup.
- There's always that one aunt
that wears way too much makeup.
- What's that saying, you can't put lipstick on a pig?
I look like I have a SnapChat filter on.
Oh, look at this!
(laughing)
I don't look that cute as a girl.
- Yes you do, I'd be your friend.
- How come you look the same?
Now that I look absolutely stunning,
let's talk about number two,
which is lighting for this beautiful face.
First of all, if you are a still photographer,
you are lucky because you get to use flashes or strobes.
I found this one on Amazon for, like, 31 bucks.
It's by Neewer, and it works.
Additionally, I got this little soft box thing for 12 bucks.
The amount of light that this thing
kicks out during that flash is insane.
I mean, you could even use it during the day
when the sun's out.
To have something equivalent
in constant lighting or for video,
you would need a light like this huge!
These are cool to have 'cause you
get to experiment a little bit.
You could try angling it up.
If you point it straight out,
it's gonna look kinda like an onboard flash,
which tends to make your photos
look like you're paparazzi.
Is it true you spent the night
at Justin Timberlake's house?
- [Kari] Please, sir!
- [Potato Jet] What's Justin Bieber gonna think about this?
Are you and Potato Jet still dating?
- No, he was talking to some girl Ari in his sleep.
I'm breaking it off.
- [Potato Jet] Who gets custody of the dogs?
- He gets no rights, 'cause he's not
their biological father.
- You could also dial it way down
so it's not as noticeable.
You could turn it to the side
and bounce it off something
so it looks like the light's
coming in from the side.
You could also eventually get a hot shoe extension
so you could hold it out here while taking the picture,
or go fully wireless.
But this one specifically runs off AAs,
and it uses a lot of power to make this much light,
so I do recommend getting some high capacity
AA rechargeable batteries.
Now, for video, we need constant lighting,
and these lights are great,
but they're also pretty expensive,
so something like this can get you started.
This is an Amaran M9 by Aputure,
and they make pretty good stuff,
and this thing's battery-powered,
and for the size, it actually kicks out
a decent amount of light.
It also comes with some filters
so you can warm it up or cool it down.
It's pretty inexpensive and small,
so it's one of those things
that it's just always nice to have in your camera kit.
You never know when you might want to accent something
with a little bit of extra light,
or maybe if you're filming
in a tight place like a car,
you can throw it on the dash.
But here's the thing with lighting:
a lot of times, if you just take a light
and just aim it at someone,
it doesn't always look great,
so that brings us to number three, lighting modifiers.
This is a collapsible reflector disk, which is 19 bucks,
and if you don't have one of these, you're missing out.
Now, these are typically five in one,
so they have your negative fill to reduce light.
You also have a gold side to add a little bit of punch,
or just a standard white bounce,
which is something that I use fairly often.
And finally, there's the diffusion,
where you put it between your subject and the light,
and it should make everything look nice and soft.
And this big old thing just collapses nice and small.
Now, this will change the texture of the lighting,
but let's also talk about changing the color with gels.
These are the ones that came with that Aputure.
But it never hurts to have more,
depending on what kind of lighting fixture you have.
The most common ones out there are CTOs and CTBs,
which are corrective, so they'll take a light
and make it either warmer, or a CTB,
a color temperature blue,
will make a warm light bluer to match daylight.
And then, if you wanna get more creative,
you can get all sorts of different colors
and test them out.
The thing with gels is that they can be
a little bit of a hassle to clip 'em on and try it on.
There are RGB lights, kinda like this Westcott Flex light.
And this is an awesome light because you can dial in
pretty much any color you want,
and it's bright and powerful,
but the downside is that it's not under 50 bucks,
so if you can't swing that price point just yet,
you can start off with gels.
Next is just some haze in a can.
You can use it for a couple different reasons,
one, to create atmosphere like this.
- Where's my money?
(laughing)
- Oh, God, we're gonna get pulled over so bad.
You can also use it to show light beams,
like from a flashlight or a laser.
By the way, never, ever shine a laser into a camera.
That can fry a sensor, I've seen it happen.
Yes, you can use a fog machine or a hazer,
but those are more than 50 bucks
and don't have the convenience
of just spraying it in the air like that.
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Next up is audio, which is 50% of video,
so very important.
This is a Rode VideoMicro,
and this is a nice, simple plug and play system,
so as long as your camera has a mic jack on there,
you can throw this up top on the hot shoe
and plug it in, and it should improve your audio quality.
This shock mount is gonna help absorb
a lot of the handling noise,
so if you're hearing a whole lotta this,
then having this will help.
And also, wind noise, we all hate that sound of,
(blowing)
so throwing this little guy on there should help.
The issue with this is it's over 50 bucks
just by a few dollars, so an option
that's much less than that, this,
which is a lavaliere that goes onto your phone.
Now, this lavaliere is dirt cheap.
It's by a company called PowerDeWise,
and it just plugs straight into your phone,
and I have an iPhone, so it just plugs into
my little adapter.
And I have this app by Rode, it's called Reporter,
and I actually like this 'cause it's very simple
and it gives you control over your audio level,
so I'll set it there, I'll hit record,
and this is recording on a separate audio track than this,
so I will have to sync it later.
Now you are listening to sound from this lavaliere,
and it is very convenient that I can walk around
and I don't have to worry about
being so close to this microphone.
And also, it's really cheap.
The only downside I noticed about this lavaliere is that,
if I scream, it, like, can cut out.
It does this weird.
(shouting)
See how it, like, cut out?
That was weird, right?
I don't know why it does that.
It might be the lav, it might be the phone itself.
(shouting)
Now, speaking of using our phones,
there's a few apps that I think everyone should have.
One is an app to help you find
the position of the sun.
So, this one is a free one called Sun Surveyor Lite,
but see how I can look around
and it's actually a 3D map of where the sun is.
So, I can tell you right now that the sun is over there,
and then, in a few hours, at 6:00,
it should hit right around there,
so you can plan your shots accordingly to that.
Also, if you're right next to a mountain
or a bunch of trees, you can generally know
when you're gonna enter the shade.
Another thing you should have is a viewfinder app,
and this one's called Magic Canon ViewFinder.
They also have a Magic Red Camera Finder and Ari Finder.
This is on the iPhone, so Android might be
a little bit different.
I think there's also an app called Artemis.
So, first of all, you tell it
what kind of camera you have.
So, I have a Canon EOS R.
It calculates the sensor size
and what lens I would need to put on
to get a certain type of shot that I want.
So, this shot here would look like this with a 50mm.
If I wanted to go to a 35 or a 24,
and again, if you shoot with prime lenses,
it helps to have this app because you're not
switching out a bunch of lenses
to figure out what shot you need.
And finally, there are some apps
that will allow you to take more control
over your camera on your phone.
The popular ones are Filmic Pro,
and also Moment makes one that I like,
and that gives you access
to all the advanced features of a camera.
So, you can see here, there's audio levels there,
you can change your framerate from 24, 30, 48,
and you have access to the different color profiles.
So, definitely worth checking out
if you want to maximize the potential with your phone.
Number eight is a leash or camera strap,
and more than likely, your camera already came with one.
But this one from Peak Design is awesome,
definitely recommend having it
'cause it's very quick attach and detach.
And I consider this a must-have,
because camera straps are awesome
if you're trying to just go around town
and you don't wanna hold onto it all day.
But at the same time, they get in the way
if you're on a tripod or a gimbal,
so being able to take it off very quickly is awesome.
These are the only little things that stay on the camera
when you take it off,
and they don't really get in the way of a gimbal,
so I haven't had any issues there,
so whenever I want a strap, I got it,
whenever I wanna take it off, I could pop it off.
Next up, let's talk about some glass
or lenses to put onto your camera.
Now, lenses are expensive, but they don't have to be.
This 50mm F1.8 is an awesome little prime lens to have.
This one specifically is an EF mount,
so it fits on my Canon cameras,
and this one was 43 bucks,
and this can get you started in the prime lens world
so you get comfortable shooting with prime lenses,
and you have that wide-open aperture,
so if you want that shallow depth of field,
you can get it with this.
If you already have some decently fast lenses
but you don't have an ND filter,
definitely recommend getting one of those.
If you don't know how ND filters work,
I made a whole video on that right there,
so go check that out.
But to put it simply, it's going to allow you
to open up the aperture in this lens more
and get a shallower depth of field,
basically giving you that nice and blurry background.
And I do recommend getting some high quality ND filters,
but they can be a bit pricey,
but you can get yourself a decent variable ND filter
for, like, 20 bucks.
And finally, we have made it to number 10,
where I'm gonna do a little bit
of self-promotion, are my LUTs.
Basically, that stands for Lookup Tables.
Think of them as Instagram filters,
but more for professional video use.
But I have two LUT packages that I created,
the Originate, which is made
to stylize your footage a little bit,
so you can apply that to pretty much any camera,
and I also designed one specifically for this EOS R,
which I designed to make this look as close as possible
to some cinema cameras.
And I've also gotten a lot of requests
to create a LUT package for another camera, so I'm down.
Let me know, take that poll, which camera
you want me to make it for.
Anyways, let's wrap this up by reading comments
from my last video, which was basically comparing this
to the cinema cameras and using my LUTs
to see how close I can get it to the cinema cameras.
Top comment: "You can always tell
"which one is the Ari because of the distinct green tint."
Yeah, that is actually true.
The cinema cameras have this unique green tint to it,
which is definitely one of the first things I had to do
to get this to match those cinema cameras.
But cinema cameras do a really great job
making greens look really rich,
and also skin tones as well.
"Cinema cameras and cheaper cameras
"are becoming closer and closer in quality.
"However, nothing can compare yet
"to the overall look of those cinema cameras.
"Like you said, dynamic range, color.
"Crazy to see camera technology advancing through.
"I love it, great video."
Thank you!
And yeah, I can't agree with you more.
These cameras are getting really, really good.
Joshua says, "Why does the Canon look better to me
"than the $50000 camera?
"Maybe my eyes are broken."
Yeah, I mean, that's one of the interesting things
about cameras, right, is that this is all subjective stuff.
Some people might actually prefer
the Canon look than that Red.
So that just goes to show,
these cameras are getting closer,
because five years ago, everyone woulda totally been like,
"Oh, that looks so much better
"than any DSLR out there."
Pierre from Haiti says, "I wanna start a show,
"a YouTube channel out of a car.
"I need your advice about the gear,
"I mean budget stuff."
Tucking something like this
inside of a car wouldn't hurt.
And if you have a phone,
you can plug that lavaliere into that,
because getting audio inside of cars
can be a little bit rough.
Anyways, let's call it quits here,
'cause I need to go get this makeup off me,
so see you guys later!
(soothing electronic music)