WEBVTT 00:00.580 --> 00:05.380 In this video, I want to show you how to set up your lighting and the picture. 00:05.800 --> 00:07.210 Let's take a look at the picture. 00:07.210 --> 00:10.330 This is a classic what's called a three point lighting system. 00:10.330 --> 00:13.330 There's you presenting that's the blue person. 00:13.330 --> 00:18.820 And there's two lights pointing at you from each direction. 00:18.820 --> 00:24.040 What's going to happen if that's strong lighting is going to create shadows behind you. 00:24.040 --> 00:27.670 And so you need this third light to offset the shadows. 00:28.180 --> 00:30.220 This light is in this picture. 00:30.220 --> 00:30.850 It's on top. 00:30.850 --> 00:33.100 Sometimes people have it at the bottom below. 00:33.100 --> 00:33.730 You like me? 00:33.730 --> 00:35.980 Look, I have a light below me. 00:36.010 --> 00:36.820 Look what it does. 00:36.820 --> 00:37.930 I'm going to turn it on. 00:39.460 --> 00:46.510 And the idea of this light, I don't actually see how you see it now, but the idea of this light is 00:46.510 --> 00:51.130 supposed to give a little texture, make it really nice and pleasant behind me. 00:51.130 --> 00:52.540 So I'm going to turn it off now. 00:53.140 --> 01:01.130 And what I'm going to show you is if I point the light at me, look at the shadows that it's going to 01:01.130 --> 01:03.320 create and be very careful of the shadows. 01:04.340 --> 01:10.220 You see how again, I don't see what you see now because I'm filming this at the moment. 01:10.220 --> 01:15.230 I don't see the recording of it, but there should be some shadows behind me. 01:15.230 --> 01:17.360 And I actually see the shadows, right? 01:17.570 --> 01:20.120 And it's really hard to offset that light. 01:20.120 --> 01:26.570 So the light behind you should be as strong as the light pointing at you. 01:28.150 --> 01:31.150 Or just don't point those. 01:31.420 --> 01:38.050 If you can be sometimes pointing right at you because it creates the shadows if you just light up the 01:38.050 --> 01:38.800 room. 01:40.320 --> 01:47.790 It will be perfect because that way if you have a balanced lighting around your entire space, that's 01:47.790 --> 01:48.210 perfect. 01:48.210 --> 01:49.620 You don't have to worry about the shadows. 01:49.620 --> 01:55.530 Now, also, it's very important depending on where you're sitting, it's actually really good If you 01:55.530 --> 02:02.250 can just have a naturally well lit area, like if you have natural lighting from from a big window. 02:02.250 --> 02:06.480 Now if you have a gloomy day or evening, you can have that always. 02:07.190 --> 02:10.910 But you have also some natural light source. 02:10.910 --> 02:13.880 Like, for example, for me, I have a big window over there. 02:13.880 --> 02:16.550 You can't see it, but right there is a big window over there. 02:16.550 --> 02:17.240 There's no window. 02:17.270 --> 02:18.650 I'm in the regular room. 02:18.890 --> 02:20.120 You know, there's no room. 02:20.120 --> 02:23.600 That is very rare that you would have like all windows on every wall. 02:24.080 --> 02:25.550 So what happens is. 02:26.890 --> 02:34.120 I have to make sure that there's not like one light, one side of my face is lit and the other one is 02:34.120 --> 02:35.380 darker and shallower. 02:35.380 --> 02:38.170 So watch for those things. 02:38.170 --> 02:44.860 And again, if you point the light at you from two directions, both of the sides of your face will 02:44.860 --> 02:45.280 be lit. 02:45.310 --> 02:49.240 There won't be a shadow of your face, but make sure that there's no shadow behind you. 02:49.240 --> 02:51.970 If there is, balance it with the light behind. 02:52.000 --> 02:52.480 You'll see. 02:52.510 --> 02:52.970 I'll turn around. 02:53.230 --> 02:55.660 I'll turn on the light behind me. 02:55.900 --> 02:59.020 But it's only going to take away the shadow a little bit. 02:59.680 --> 03:02.650 So the entire shadow probably isn't gone. 03:02.650 --> 03:07.990 And I see it still behind me, but it's less so. 03:07.990 --> 03:11.470 If this light is stronger, it might balance the shadow even more. 03:12.430 --> 03:17.860 But then sometimes you'll be having another problem where the light behind you is too strong. 03:17.860 --> 03:19.360 So what's the takeaway? 03:19.630 --> 03:26.960 Watch for all those factors and balance them out because there's always like, one thing is good, the 03:26.960 --> 03:31.190 lighting is good, it's too bright somewhere, it's too bright, somewhere it's not bright enough. 03:31.190 --> 03:35.390 But now you know what to look for balanced lighting on your face. 03:36.500 --> 03:40.950 No shadow behind you and the texture. 03:41.030 --> 03:43.880 The overall area shouldn't be dark. 03:43.880 --> 03:49.700 For example, I'm filming this in the room and this particular room has a lot of lamps, but none of 03:49.700 --> 03:51.980 them are particularly incredibly bright. 03:52.530 --> 03:56.730 And I actually where I'm filming this now, I don't have this set up now. 03:56.730 --> 04:01.680 It's basically like a regular room, so I don't have professional lighting. 04:01.680 --> 04:04.890 And if you're filming at home, you probably don't either. 04:04.890 --> 04:09.870 So this professional lighting is like $100 online, a little bit more and it's bulky. 04:09.870 --> 04:13.500 And if you don't have a dedicated room, it just takes a lot of space. 04:13.500 --> 04:16.320 So for a lot of people, it's not a practical solution either. 04:16.320 --> 04:21.990 So if you don't have that solution, then the home based solution is essentially just make sure you're 04:21.990 --> 04:28.920 in an area where everything is lit and now the background is a green screen background. 04:29.180 --> 04:31.590 It's like a green screen. 04:31.590 --> 04:32.430 It's not a green screen. 04:32.430 --> 04:33.420 It's like that. 04:34.080 --> 04:39.510 But it's also nice if you can have some personality like your branding or something else behind you. 04:39.510 --> 04:40.620 That's also nice. 04:40.620 --> 04:46.530 But this is just basic and it does an okay job as long as the color of this is not a bad color, this 04:46.530 --> 04:47.610 is okay. 04:49.380 --> 04:55.180 Regular plain color like vanilla color, I guess, or white, it's fine. 04:55.870 --> 04:57.280 It's not the best thing in the world. 04:57.280 --> 05:00.130 But if you dress it up with some lighting now, it's a little dark. 05:00.130 --> 05:05.140 I feel so it needs a little more ambient, like around lighting around. 05:05.140 --> 05:11.740 But if I had a lot of writing, lighting around and I had this light also and minus the shadows, I 05:11.740 --> 05:18.190 think this very regular color can be actually okay and nice because you dress it up with the lighting. 05:18.190 --> 05:20.800 So that's the considerations for the lighting. 05:20.800 --> 05:28.660 How to go from just $0 essentially to having a relatively professional or high level amateur lighting 05:28.660 --> 05:29.290 situation. 05:29.290 --> 05:31.510 As long as you keep all the right things in mind.