And that should help finish off the white room set up.
We've got a nice additional modifier light set up on a retractable arm mounted
to the wall, and now our scene is lit and we're ready to roll.
Hey, what's up, everyone?
This is Tim from Envy Creative,
and I want to thank you for joining us for yet another YouTube video.
Today we're going to be talking about lighting modifiers and specifically lighting
modifiers in our white room here at the studio.
Now, if you're familiar with our work
at all or if you've seen previous videos on the channel, you should know that we do
a lot of product videos for customers where we usually display their product
on a table much like this one with a white backdrop behind them.
And the way that we go about doing that is just a very simple setup that we can keep
and maintain for every video for the most part.
So everything looks pretty identical.
Now, when we moved to our new studio,
we wanted to get a different lighting setup than we had at our last studio
in terms of utilizing the new space that we had in our white room area.
Now I shoot a good portion of the white
room videos here at the studio, and I first started experimenting
with this by putting a soft box a little bit closer to our actor on camera and just
using it to kind of key their face a little bit and give us just a little bit
extra lighting on the facial features ended up making a nice looking image.
So we decided to make a more permanent solution and actually get some hardware
that could stay in the white room, and we could use it for every video.
So in order to make a more semipermanent solution, we picked up an extendable arm
fixture from a company called Impact, and what this allows us to do is basically
have a permanent lighting fixture attached to the wall that we can extend and bring
closer or farther from our actor in order to achieve the desired effect.
So we were also trying out a fixture
from Impact, which is a lighting globe which attaches to the Bowens Mount on our
light, which is attached to the extendable arm.
So after trying that out for a couple of shoots and liking the results,
we wanted to also try experimenting using the same impact arm with a couple of other
lighting fixtures to get that desired effect.
Really clean up the shot.
So we're going to try out three different lighting modifiers.
The first is the aforementioned Impact lighting globe.
The second is going to be a beauty dish
from a company called Nice Photo, and the third one is going to be a soft box dish.
Now, all three of these modifiers are
likely going to give us a pretty good looking shot.
But we want to find the one that's best
for our needs and again, make it a semipermanent solution
that would can easily just have up on our white room.
Bring out and rig up whenever we're ready to use it for shoot.
So the first test is going to be with the Impact globe.
And I personally really like this light
because it's pretty well balanced all around.
It's just a nice soft light that you can bring in over your actors space and you're
able to really get a nice key light on their face.
Now the second test is going to be with a nice photo beauty dish.
Now we use a bigger version of one of these pretty much every day on set.
Now we use these basically because cause
they're portable, you can throw it on some wheels.
How to move around set with you.
And as long as you have power available,
you're going to have pretty solid lighting for any closeups mid shots.
Anytime you need a good key light on your actor.
Again, it's just a matter of simple installation to swap out the globe
for the nice photo beauty dish, and we'll go ahead and test that one out.
As I mentioned earlier,
we're getting pretty similar results already with the first two lights,
and I think the reason for that is they're all pretty good solutions if you want
to have a nice soft key light on your actor.
But as I said, we want to find the best version for our studio and our means.
So let's go ahead and try the last one, which is the softbox dish.
In my personal opinion,
the softbox dish was probably the weakest of the three only because it didn't supply
a ton of extra light that was noticeable on camera.
Basically, what I'm looking for for this sort of test is what's going to give me
a little bit extra in terms of lighting so that I can make this shot look really
good, especially when I finish it off in post-production with color correction.
So as you can see, all all three lighting
setups are actually pretty solid and depending on your individual needs,
one of them may work better than the other for what you're trying to do.
For our purposes.
I personally like the Nice Photo beauty dish.
I think that it gives the cleanest amount of light, and when I go to color correct
these clips at the end, I'm looking just for a little extra
lighting on the actor space to bring out some of those facial features.
So that way you're not losing any of that.
When you go to tweak the final colors in the final shot.
I think that with a lot of white room videos, you sometimes run the risk
of things looking still or kind of sterile in the shot.
But with the proper lighting setup
and some know how in color correction, I think you're able to get things to pop
really well, including the wardrobe, the actor skin tone, and,
most importantly, the client's product that you're showcasing.
Now, there are tons of lighting setups out there, a lot of which are more expensive
or inexpensive than what we're showcasing here.
However, we wanted to find something like I mentioned that's going to cater to our
needs and that we can easily use on a weekly basis with minimal or no setup.
I honestly think the coolest thing,
though, about all this is the arm that we picked up in order to Mount these lights.
I just think that it's so easy to tuck into the corner of your standing set,
and then when you need it, you swing it out, extend it,
get it where you need with your actor, and you're good to roll.
Basically, that has been our goal with most of our sets and our lighting
options here at the studio, it's either portable or it's set up so
that we can easily turn it on and get going with very minimal setup time.
Now, all three of those tests actually may have looked pretty similar to you,
and that's okay, because what we're looking for is nuance.
When you have different pieces of gear that essentially get the same job done,
you've got to look for what sets them apart from each other.
I think the nice photo beauty dish really
did the job for me because I've seen the results before, like I said,
with some of the bigger versions of it, but I really like the way it funnels
the harsh light and then diffuses it onto the active space.
And I think personally looking
at the test, that's the one that sticks out the most to me, so we're likely going
to keep that one up in the white room studio so we can use it on a weekly basis.