hello friends welcome back to my channel if you're new welcome my name is christine
today we're going to talk all about my lighting setup some of my favorite lights that i use
some of the tips and tricks that i've found over the years that have helped me step up my
lighting game for my videos for instagram all that good stuff and i'm super excited to partner with
loomcube to share their mobile creator kit this is actually a really great phone stand and i've used
this a couple of times to take my own pictures so i'm going to take you behind the scenes with me
show you how i take some of my own photos on my iphone and why this little phone stand is so
amazing so i'm super excited to dive in before we go ahead and get started first make sure
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without further ado let's go ahead and get started first off we are actually filming
in my office and i just had the walls painted white and has made such a difference in how good
and photogenic this room is i've also taken down any of the mirrors and picture frames
and it just looks so much cleaner i feel like a clean plain backdrop is so important when you're
filming your videos in this room it actually is a little bit dark especially now it's about 6
30 so the sun is getting ready to set so lighting is very very important for me i actually have
four lights right now and two of the lights i have these are like led light situations i actually got
both of these from amazon these are great because they are bi-color light so they can go from warm
to cool and you can adjust the strength of the light as well these are probably my most used
lights and these led lights are so powerful i actually like pointing these lights directly
up and that is really great because it helps to replicate sunlight so i do have a light
right over there that points directly towards the ceiling and then bounces back onto like this whole
area which helps to light it up and makes the area look a lot more brighter without looking too
artificial you know what i mean and then i also have another one of those led lights right here
that is a little bit lower pointing directly up so this one helps to light the background a little
bit but also help to light up my face since this office is like such a bright white i can actually
do cool or warm tones if i want it to look a little bit more like sunlight i'll probably
make the lights a little bit more warm tone with this office it's really nice because i can do
either of that when my office was more of a yellow green color i would only have the light on a pure
white setting so that it helped to negate any of that yellowness that we saw these lights are also
helpful if i'm shooting kind of at night i might want to replicate a little bit of the sunlight so
i can adjust that if it's during the day maybe it's a little bit too yellow so i can just turn
on the bright whites and it helps to negate the sunlight so those lights are just super helpful
highly recommend b h photo also has very similar ones i think lighting makes a big difference and
especially with my foaming gear i do like to splurge a little bit just because it makes such
a big difference these are like that i'm going to keep forever and ever i use them to take my
photos for tick tocks all that good stuff so i do find value in investing in those next thing
i want to talk about is these little lights from loom cube i have so many of these i want to say
i have like two of these little small ones and these are really useful i've also used this for
like zoom calls whenever i am hopping on a quick video call and i just need like a little bit of
light but i don't want to bring like a whole setup or a ring light or anything like that this is just
really great because it does have these little buttons on the side so i can just turn it on
and kind of set the light down below and that way on the webcam my face looks really nicely
lit but it looks like very subtle you know but on camera i get i get compliments all the time about
how good my makeup looks how i'm glowing it's just lighting so these little lights are really really
great from lume cube i also have the bigger one this one is the pano pro and this one is great
because it actually has multiple light settings i use this to do a little like colored light photo
shoot a while ago it can do so many things on here and these lights also are available on the
loom cube app which is great so if i ever want to change the settings from my phone i could do that
that's useful if i have multiple of these lights like around the room and i want to set them
all to like a certain tone of like red i can just do it all for my phone which is really useful so
this little light is really great if i wanted to do anything creative it is also very powerful
to be expected it's a lot bigger and a little bit more expensive than the small one is and it does
do so much more this little one is only by colors you can only do yellow and white and
this one can do like any color of the rainbow so this is really useful especially if i want
to do something creative if i want like some red tones in the background or some cool colors
i would use that for this but also it's just a really powerful light so i do have one of those
on top of my camera it helps to really subtly like light up my face i just like having a little light
up above because it really helps to add a little bit of light to my face it helps to replicate
daylight which i like i always just want to bring the focus to my face and make sure that my face
is properly lit just because i feel like if it's not it's very distracting and then i also have a
ring light here that is also from lume cube and this is a new ring light that they just came
out i love this thing it actually is bi-color as well my previous ring light could only do a white
tone and i didn't realize how much i needed a bi-color ring light until i got this one so
this is really useful again if i ever want to have it more cool tone or if i want a light
that's a little bit more warm toned it's really great that i can do all that with just the one
ring light and it's also great because it comes with a little cell phone holder in the middle so
it's great if i'm filming like a tick tock or an id story and i just need something really quick
and easy i'll just grab that light bring it with me to the bathroom to my room wherever i want to
film it's just so quick and easy to use and it's also very very strong i usually have it on like
40 but if you turn it up to 100 i'm not giving you it can light up an entire
room those are all the lighting pieces that i have um i'll go ahead and link everything down below
the camera that i also use is the sony a6400 i did a lot of research before buying this camera and
i really like it because it has a flip screen so you might notice me looking up at the screen just
to check if i'm in focus so this is really great because if i'm like filming in a small space i was
recently in big bear i filmed a little get ready with me while i was there and it's just nice to
have a flip screen so i can constantly reference back make sure that i'm in focus so i did do a
lot of research before getting the 6400 it's a really solid camera and then the lens i have
is the 14 to 24 millimeter sigma lens and this one is really great because it does
have a little bit of a zoom so if i'm doing like makeup tutorials and i need a little bit of zoom
or whatever i just keep this lens on my camera at all times i use it to take my pictures it can do
a really low aperture as well so that gives you that really nice background blur that you see
a lot of geeky camera things i've watched a lot of youtube reviews and tutorials and stuff like
that before i like really learned what i know now so that is just what works for me i'll go ahead
and link like my beginner lens i used before i upgraded to this one as well because this lens is
a little bit expensive and then i also do have a microphone that is right on top of my camera
and that just helps the audio quality to be a little bit more crisper and clearer and i
do have my little loom cube light and my mic all in a little like v stand situation i also
have a cage around my camera so one that's to protect my camera but two also because
it allows me to put the little v stand to the side because my camera comes in with a little built-in
little hook situation i'm not a camera person okay i apologize because i don't know what the heck i'm
talking about anyways my camera comes in with a built-in little slot in the middle which doesn't
make sense to me because when i have the flip screen up whatever i put into that slot is gonna
block the flip screens i just got this little vlogging camera i don't even know what it's
called because i don't think the names on here this is sony's like version of the canon g7x
i recently got this long story short if you follow me on instagram my hard drive failed and
i previously was filming everything on my iphone and since i filmed all my videos in 4k my memory
on my iphone would fill up really really fast and all the time so it's constantly deleting videos
and so pretty much i lost a lot of videos and photos and footage had backed up on this drive
and i just was using it so much to constantly back up my phone and then delete the stuff on
my phone so that when the hard drive failed i just didn't have a backup so long story short i wanted
to upgrade from using my iphone for everything so it is nice that i do have this little camera
if you guys want to see a more in-depth review let me know maybe i'll pop it in a vlog or something
like that but so far so good really like the vlog camera and it does have a side flip screen which
is really really nice and what i was saying is i don't know why the sony sony a6400 why they didn't
do a side flip screen for this camera instead it flips up on top as a little workaround because i
do want to have a mic and a light plugged in i have to put the cage on my camera just so that
the slot is over to the side so i can slot all that in so that is all of my little lighting setup
you can see the little before and after without lighting and then with lighting it obviously just
makes such a big difference and it is just such a quick and easy way to step up your lighting game
next i want to talk about this little mobile crater stand like i said in the beginning of
this video part of this video is sponsored by loom cube so big thank you to loom cube this
mobile creator stand is really great because it is a little tripod stand situation but you could also
remove this little stand if you wanted it just to be a little handheld situation if you're doing
like empty stores or you want to take photos or anything like that it's just really nice to have
like a little grip also this little stand has little slots if you wanted to add on a little
uh loom cube light so you can actually do two of them if you want it this is great if you're doing
an id live i do stories even if you're just taking selfies i've used this stand to take
my own pictures before i've added a little light just to help brighten up my face a little bit
and it's just really compact fits into my purse it really breaks down so small
it's so easy to use and i actually really like it really appreciate that it can do
portrait photos and videos but you can also switch it if you wanted your phone to be like to shoot
for like youtube or any type of like horizontal content you can do both which is really great
i've had a couple times where i've done ig stories or unboxings really late at night and the lighting
is not that great so i'll just clip my phone into this add the little lights like that and then i
can just do my little unboxing all with one hand i have a series all about instagram how to step up
your instagram game your photo game all that good stuff so if you are trying to up your photo game
a lot of times you have to take pictures by yourself this sand is just really useful because
it actually i prefer the low angles when i take pictures of myself so this is perfect because it
sits low on the ground i actually have a little clicker that i like to use and this one here is
from amazon it's just a bluetooth little clicker thing that connects to my iphone and i just will
click this and it'll go ahead and take pictures of me i use this all the time you can also uh take
videos in 4k i've talked about this hack on tiktok but you can take like a 4k video of yourself pose
away and then later go in and screenshot from that video and because the video is in 4k you still get
really high quality pictures so two ways that you can take pictures of yourself i've used
both of them before and i'll go ahead and pop on some pictures that i recently took
using this mobile creator sam but it's just so useful and then like i said i did recently get my
sony vlogging camera but i previously was vlogging on my phone it's really easy if i want to vlog on
the go just because it's all here i can set it down if i want it i can use it as a grip i can
attach some lights to it it's a no-brainer you know it's so compact so easy to use you can use
it for so many different things and these little lights like i said are so useful because they are
bi-color so you can make them a little bit more cool tone or warm tones it's really great because
you have lighting that adjusts to whatever setting you are in so that way you always have the best
lighting wherever you are if you want to take photos or videos and loom cube was kind enough
to give me a discount code my discount code is christine10 which will give you 10 off of your
entire loom q purchase like i said my ring lights from loom cube this little mobile creator stand
is so useful we have these little lights the pro lights there's so much that i love from loom cube
and i actually heard that they're coming out with their little quicker as well which will be amazing
i already know it's just gonna pair really well with all the loom cube gear that i already have
that is everything about my little lighting setup just a quick and easy way to really step up your
game whether it's for videos or photos i think it's super important to make sure you have the
gear that allows you to create whatever you have in mind so that is all for today's video i hope
you all enjoyed and found it helpful i'll go ahead and link everything down below like i always do
big thank you to lunacube for sponsoring part of this video that is all for today's video
i hope you all enjoyed and found it helpful but i will see you all in the next video bye
you