Ahoj! This is Zdenka. In today's video we will be talking about light. How you
can make your videos instantly look so much better. I'm gonna be sharing some
tips and tricks what I am doing, how I lit myself, how I lit the products.
What you can do? How you can be more creative with lights to get different
looks all the time. At the same time we will be a reviewing
brand new product which is right behind me. What is it? It is Pokelite F7 RGB
LED video light with magnet absorbing function and with multiple lights and
effects. Let's review this product and let's reveal some of my light secrets.
For those who don't know me, my name is Zdenka Darula. I make photo and video
tutorials like this one, tech reviews like this one and creative camera
challenges like the future ones, so if that's something you're interested in
you might consider hitting the subscribe button. First of all, let's look at the
product I have right here. The packaging promises quality. Let's
open it up and see what's inside. F7 light which comes with very nice
protective pouch, manual, sticker, bracket, cold shoe, USB charging cable. I'm
absolutely loving the fact that it comes with USB charging cable so you don't
have to actually buy extra batteries for it. That's a bonus.
The light also comes with honeycomb grid and diffuser. The weight is 300 grams, it
consists of 54 pieces of white LEDs, 44 pieces of yellow LEDs and 96 pieces of
RGB lights. It has 7.4 volts battery with 3000 milliampere hour with 1 inch OLED
display type-c standard USB charging interface supporting QC 3.0 fast
charging. The brightest lasting time is about two hours. The adjustable range of
color temperature is between 2500 to 9000 K. To turn it on press the power
button for one and a half seconds, the little display here will show you color
temperature and intensity. To turn the brightness up and down you simply turn
this up and down knob. To adjust temperature turn this knob. If you press
the power button again, this will turn into second menu page where you can
adjust colors. Again to adjust color or brightness you will turn the up and down
knob. If you just hold longer, you'll change the color completely.
Press the on and off button two times to enter third page special effects
adjustment and here you will enter very wide selection of effects. You can switch
between them by turning the up and down knob, so let's quickly run through what
we have here. Police car, ambulance, fire truck,
lightning 1, lightning 2, HSI demo slow, HSI demo fast, screen, candle, paparazzi,
stroke, high and low beam, bulb, double flash red, flash green, flash blue, flash
party 1 and party 2. Because of the very strong magnet model, it can be
attached to any metal surface so it is a very versatile and here I'm going to
pause for a second and talk about my lighting setup here, the way I like to
lit my videos. So first of all I have soft box which is lighting me. I don't
have it turned on all the way probably about half way a little bit softer. I
don't like to put my light right facing me because then I get that flat look but
if I move that softbox a little bit to the side like this, so 45 degrees that's
exactly where my hand is, that's where my light is. I'm creating very soft lit area
right here and this part is in shade and as you can tell, I am using the brand new
light behind me to lit this whole background, this room. This room is
normally beige kind of white, nothing very special, just very plain but by
adding the color in a background it will make it pop very interesting and I have
it set to the HSI demo slow so it's changing the colors very slowly. Now when
you are using the special effects such as the police car and all that and these
color changing lights, you cannot increase the brightness up and down. It
is on one setting only, so what I am doing to balancing it because I want the
background really nicely visible, I want the colors to actually pop and it's a
strong light, I dimmed the soft box halfway to make sure I'm not
overpowering, to make sure I'm fitting nicely in a scene and my ISO right now
is about 200 the f-stop is 3.5 and shutter speed obviously is one fiftieth
of a second for those interested who want to know my settings. You can totally
get creative here as much as you want. You can lit up the background like this,
you can lit up the background for your products, you can also lit the product
with different color, from the side, from behind, you can make the background
change colors like right now or let me show you one more thing. What happens if
I put this light on a stand the f7 light on a stand and turn it around? As you can
see now it's creating this sort of hair light with different colors. It changed
the whole look of the studio again. Let's stop talking about the backlight and
let's talk about the front main light for a little bit. The f7 RGB LED light
comes with two excellent accessories and one is diffuser and the other one is
honeycomb grid. Now those two items are made of plastic so you need to keep it
in mind when you're putting it on the light and taking it off. I would be
gentle, especially with these parts here, I would not force it. Now I have the
light in my hands because, I'm not gonna talk about the background light anymore,
I'll talk about the main light. So what I'm going to do, I'm going to attach it
and this is included with the light to my camera to show you how the light
looks like when it is front-facing. Now the light is sitting on my camera and
you can see how harsh it is. I actually turn it all the way up to see how strong
it is. My settings are ISO 250f 3.5 and shutter speed is one fiftieth of a
second. It's Canon m50 with 15 to 45 millimeters kit lens.
There is no diffuser so this is the harsh bright light you get.
Let me change it now. I have diffuser on the light, the light is still on the
camera dead on facing me so it is a little bit,
it is a little bit softer light. The settings on my camera are right now ISO
400 aperture SF 3.5 and a shutter speed obviously 150th of a second. Now let me
take that light off the camera because it's really in my eyes, move it onto the
stand, move it a little bit on a 45 degree angle and let's see what the
light will look like. Now you get that light on a stand right there. This
is where it is sitting and there is no diffuser. This is the harsh light. Now my
ISO is 400 the rest of the settings are the same so let me add diffuser.
Diffuser is on. On purpose I left the same ISO ISO 400 for you to
see the difference, how the light got softer. Now last thing I want to do today
is actually change the background for the black background and let me show you
how you can use the honeycomb grid. Let's play a little bit with the
diffuser and the honeycomb grid. So the black background is here. First lighting
setup is just a light on the stand. There is no diffuser or the honeycomb grid
anything like. It's all the way up and the ISO is right now 320 with the
aperture F 3.5. Let me put the diffuser on. Diffuser is on right now, so
the light is a little bit softer and the ISO is 400 right now. Let me change it
for the very last time, let's put the honeycomb grid on. Well and right now I
have the honeycomb grid on what it does it's not spreading the light around. It
is a very directional so it creates this very moody very dark lighting, so you can
do may be talking on the camera like this or you can turn in different
directions, talking off the camera and you can actually see how it's litting me
up. So let me turn a little bit in all kinds of directions for you, so you find
out what it does. Now I'm gonna move the grid light a little bit more to the side,
right about here. So it's right now to the side. So I can do these very dramatic
shots as I'm talking to the camera but I have the lighting from the front but you
see the profile. It is very small but very powerful light packed with amazing
features and different options to completely unleash your creativity. For
those interested to see how much it cost, I linked the product in the video
description below. Those are international links so you can
see it in your currency. Feel free to check it out.
Well I'm gonna go ahead and have a little party here, hit the thumbs up
button if you liked today's video, subscribe to all future videos like
these. If you have any questions or comments or would like to know more about
the video lighting setup or just want to say hello and I'll say hi back, you can
do so in a comment section below as always I read it and I will try to
respond to all and I'll see you all of my friends in the next video... Cau... Ahoj..
I am back. You know I just wanted to do a little conclusion here. I've been using
this light for two hours now and I didn't have it all the way up because I
was using the colors so right now when I check the battery is actually still a
halfway full which is pretty good. Also I wanted to see how warm it gets it's
definitely not hot, it's just warm to the touch so it's not gonna burn anybody
he's not gonna burn you just for those who are wondering see you next time.