In this video,
I'm going to show you how you can take your set from looking something like
this, to this,
using a few lights that are small enough to fit into your travel bag.
So you can achieve this, look for your livestreams or your videos,
wherever you go. Now I've set this up with a total of five lights,
but one of them is just a practical light or a lamp that was already in the
corner of the room. Four of the lights are small lights that I purchased.
I'm going to put links to those down in the description as well and talk about
each of those in this video. But before we get into any of that,
I want to turn off the lights and show you what each one of these lights do
individually, and then show you what they do collectively.
So first let me turn off the lights.
The next thing I'm going to do is turn on a table lamp in the back corner of the
room. Now that the practical light is turned on,
you're probably wondering why it's yellow,
and it's because that's the look that I want.
I white balance my camera to the Key Light,
and I'm going to turn that on in just a little bit,
but whatever goes on behind me really doesn't matter that much,
because I white balance for the light out front,
to make sure that my skin looks good. So the practical light is on. Now,
let me turn on another light in the background.
The light that I just turned on is an Aputure F seven,
and it allows me to change the color temperature between daylight or a more
tungsten look or more yellow look so I can match the practical light.
So I wanted that yellow look behind me, that's what I was going for.
And I could adjust that light to match the practical.
Now let me add some color behind me by turning on the Aputure RGB light and that
one's the smallest one of all and it's actually my favorite,
and I'll talk about that in just a moment.
But first let me add some color to the background.
Now you see what adding a little bit of color does to the background.
It really starts to pull everything together. And again,
I'm using the Aputure RGB light,
and of course you don't have to use purple like I do.
The RGB lights will allow you to use any color that you want.
You can use reds or blues or pinks or yellows or different shades of purples or
greens. It's entirely up to you. And they can also adjust for daylight colors,
or I could match that back light and change it from purple to something that
matches the practical lamp back in the corner.
Now let's turn on a light.I have over here to the side,
and this is another Aputure F seven.
The F seven is what I have back in this corner right here.
I am traveling with two of those,
and I have one in the corner and you're going to see what happens when I turn t
hat on.
What the Aputure F seven is doing is it's adding some highlight to my body right
here. Alternatively,
you could use this as a hairlight by raising it and putting it behind you so it
puts the light on your hair and on your shoulders,
and that will help pull you away from a background.
So if you're sitting next to a wall or something that's darker,
by using a hair light or something like this,
it's going to separate you and add some depth between you and the background.
Now, the only thing that's missing is the Key Light,
and that's the light that I've white balanced to.
So I'm going to turn that on right now and pull this all together.
And now we have the complete lighting setup.
As you can see the Key Light completely lights me up.
I have my rim light over here to the side, adding a little bit of warmth.
I have the practical in the back.
I had the corner light and I have some color in the background as well.
That gives me this overall look.
Now the Key Light is a small flexible led light by a company called Falcon Eyes.
I'm going to put that up on the screen right now.
So you can take a look at that.
I'm also going to link out to all of these lights down in the description below.
But what if you don't want all of these lights?
What if you just want one light or two lights? Well,
I'm going to turn all of these off and I'm going to keep only the Key Light so
you see what that looks like.
And I'm going to do another setup where I show you the Key Light and only one of
the little RGB lights showing some purple in the background.
So first let me turn everything off except for the Key Light so you can see what
that looks like. And voila, this is the Falcon Eyes light.
This is only the Falcon Eyes light.
Everything else is turned off including the room one here in the distance.
This is the one light hitting me right here.
So technically you could stream with this and the room that I'm in is white.
It's white tile floors, white ceilings, white walls.
So the light is bouncing everywhere. If you were in a darker room,
the light wouldn't bounce so much.
So it's possible that if my walls were darker and my tile was not white and the
ceiling was not white,
it's possible you wouldn't even see the background behind me.
It's possible that we just fade out to black. So it depends on your room,
but this is just one light.
You could travel with this one light to light you up. Alternatively,
you could shoot in the daytime,
open up a window and get the natural light coming in and then use the Falcon
Eyes and turn it down a little bit just to fill in the shadows so you don't have
shadows on your face. But this is the one light setup,
and this actually looks pretty good,
but let me turn on one light behind to add some color.
And we have color again the light behind me is the Aputure RGB light.
These are fantastic little lights.
The cool thing about them is there's a magnet on one side, which is really cool.
So you can stick it to anything that's metal and it will stick.
It also comes with a diffuser.
So if you wanted to (and I don't recommend using this as a Key Light,) but if
you were in a pinch and you wanted to use this as a Key Light,
you put the diffuser on it and softer light would actually come on you that way.
Anytime you have light coming onto you,
it's always best to diffuse the light to make it softer.
And of course the larger, the light source, the softer,
the light is going to be.
Now this two lights set up is definitely travel worthy.
I've been traveling with it in Mexico. I actually have a couple of these things.
They work fantastic. I've used these a lot. I've used them for video.
I use them for live streaming. As you can see,
they can make a huge difference in how your production looks. Be it, your video,
or be it your livestream, they look amazing.
And in terms of the battery life on this, you can plug it in, it has an adapter.
You can plug it in, but without the adapter,
I can get about two to two and a half hours with the battery life on these and
the F7's, those actually require larger batteries.
And I can run those for several hours, and there's no problem there.
Speaking of, let me turn one of those back on, this light over here on the side.
This is a three light setup. So we have the Aputure RGB,
we have the Falcon Eyes flexible LCD,
and we have one Aputure F seven that's
just bringing a little bit of a warm glow right here.
So this is a three light setup.
The three lights set up that you're looking at right now,
the Aputure F 7 is around $99.
The RGB light from Aputure is also around $99.
And the Falcon Eyes is around $68 or $70.
Now you can totally get away with just the Falcon Eyes and an RGB light from
Aputure . But if you wanted to add some warmth in, you could get that as well.
Now, in terms of the background, you can use practical lights for that.
If you have lamps around your home, grab them, set them up,
they will look fantastic.
Just make sure that you match the colors and you don't have something ove
rpowering. If the light was really bright in the background, this wouldn't work.
So makes sure that everything is balanced out. This is hard to beat,
especially if you're on a budget,
especially if you're traveling and you want to make your live shows or videos
look great wherever you are. Maybe you're in a hotel room,
maybe you're on the road at a convention,
you can take this with you and have a good looking set.