in this video we're going to cover the
best lighting options for YouTube on all
budgets starting as low as twenty-eight
dollars right up to four hundred and
eighty dollars we're also going to cover
the difference between softboxes and LED
lights so that you can pick which one is
right for you hey it's Justin Brown Evan
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into it now there's a ton of options out
there when it comes to lighting for your
videos and there's associated costs and
benefits with each let's start out with
budget and move our way through so that
you can see the differences as we move
along and also potentially see what
you're missing out on make sure you
stick around to the end because I'll
show you which lights I'm currently
using and how I use them okay so on the
budget end of the scale we've got
portable LED lights or small LED lights
and we've also got some softbox lights
as well so the portable or the small LED
lights are great because they're
portable so you can travel easily with
them and they're fantastic for lighting
up your cell phone camera so you can
mount them on top of your camera or near
your camera or you can use them to
easily light up the background of your
scene as well to budget portable LED
lights that I recommend you check out
for your YouTube videos or for your
YouTube studio set up would be the
telephone pt-17 6s and the yongnuo Y and
300 air so the telephone pt-17 6s
currently sells on Amazon for around the
$28 price point it's dimmable and it is
crazy bright you can either power it
with Sony NPF batteries or you can plug
it into DC power as well the young new
oyn 300 air currently sells on Amazon
for around 40 to $45 it's again a
dimmable LED light panel it takes the
same Sony NPF batteries and you can also
power of DC power as well this one is a
much bigger light it's not as bright but
it's got a diffuser on it so that throws
a nice soft light which is perfect for
lighting up someone on camera softbox
lights also fall into this budget
category and there's a heap of different
brands out
and there's a few different styles as
well you can pick up a softbox light
with anywhere between one and five light
globes in it whatever recommend is going
for the five globe softbox lights so
that your lights are then dimmable so
you can just turn on or off the lights
that you want to make the lights
brighter or darker now a five globe
softbox light currently sells on Amazon
for around $70 these lights come
complete with the stands with the
softbox itself and with five globes you
can also normally buy softbox lights in
kits of two three and four lights which
works out quite a bit cheaper softbox
lights are great because of the price
and because they throw a nice soft light
so you can use them to either light up
your cell phone camera or you can use
them to light up your background scene
now there are a couple of downsides with
softbox lights the first being the size
they're pretty big they take up quite a
bit of room so if you don't have a big
area that you're going to be filming in
their softbox lights may not be the best
option for you or if you're going to be
traveling around a lot you want to move
the lights around or they're not easy to
set up and pack up all the time and to
travel with especially because of the
Globes
that would break really easy so softbox
lights are great if you've got the room
and if you're gonna leave them set up
now moving up from there we start to get
into studio lighting now these can range
from anywhere up to $1,000 or $2,000 per
light so totally different to the budget
ones we've just looked at now even for
professional and corporate work we don't
always use lights at that level now what
I recommend for great studio LED lights
is the studio Pro s 600 BN lights
essentially these are just like softbox
lights and you'd set them up and use
them almost the same except for the fact
that the LED lights are much much
brighter
these ones are also bicolor so you can
adjust the color temperature to either
throw a warmer light or a cooler light
and they're much easier to set up and
pack up and travel with you can
currently pick up a single Studio Pro
LED light for around the two hundred and
seventy dollar mark or you can pick up a
kit of two which is usually how you'd
buy them and it comes complete with a
travel kit or a travel bag as well for
four hundred and eighty dollars so if
you're after some really decent lights
that are easy to set up and pack up and
travel with and give you great control
over the brightness and your color
temperature then these are a really good
option now I also said that I'd share
with you Mike
lighting setup or the lights that I'm
using in my home studio setup so the
lights that I'm currently using I have a
young new oyn 300 n so the same light
from this video sitting on top of my
Panasonic gh4 top my DSLR and that's
lighting me up primarily I've got two
standard LED lights in the roof so just
ceiling lights that are used to light up
the rest of the room and any other extra
lights that I use really depend on how
bright it is outside or dark right now
it's not that bright outside but we're
still got a fair bit of light coming
through as lighting up this side of my
face I do have a second young new yn 300
air that's lighting up this side of my
face and through to the background as
well now I do have softbox lights that
are set up and ready to go so sometimes
I'll pull one of those out and use that
to do the same thing to really light up
the background on this side and if I'm
gonna be filming in this room at
nighttime so there's no light coming
through that window and I'll use the
pt-17 6s that tool if Oh light the first
one from this video to light up this
corner so there's additional light
bouncing off the walls and back to me
from them so as you can see it's
definitely not an expensive lighting
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