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hey thanks for tuning in a pocket filmmaker in this episode we're looking at the lighting tips for the pocket cameras now it's not going to be rocket science when we talk about small cameras to understand that we're working with really small lenses and small lenses mean we have very small sensors that are capturing the light coming in through that lens now a well-lit shot will give us great color and great clarity in our video picture and of course natural daylight is the absolute best type of light for us to film with however it's not always available to us we might occasionally find ourselves filming inside or a nice or under a shady tree outside and each of those instances is going to give us a different color temperature to our picture now a quick way around this when you're filming on a pocket camera if you don't have a manual override control is to actually show your camera something white in the environment you're standing in so whether it be outside inside if you have a back of a t-shirt or a notepad show that to your camera and it'll automatically adjust the white balance to suit the color temperature to white reflecting off the page now without a shadow of a doubt one of the biggest enemies of pocket lighting is backlight and backlight is very evident where we film someone say against a bright window or a doorway and they just appear like a silhouette in front of great shape the reason is your pocket camera is simply exposing for the brightest light source of the picture but there's ways we can get around that simply moving your camera or your subject away from that heavily back light source will give you a much better picture or sometimes on a camera you'll find that is backlight compensation features which you can activate as well on some of the newer smartphones we even find we have a manual exposure over I such as his Sony Xperia TX I can actually press this setting here and go up or down in my exposure settings which goes a long way towards compensated for backlight now another great tip when filling outside is to avoid mixed lighting and when I say big sliding I mean filming your subject in all shade or all Sun as soon as you start crossing over the two you get this dappled light in which your camera will find very difficult to automatically expose for if you're filming outdoors a great tip for getting fantastic even lighting is you use bounce light to fill in the light in the shadow side of your picture now to get nice bounce lighting doesn't have to cost a fortune in fact you can use a simple white sheet of cardboard or a simple twenty dollar reflector that I found on eBay or I'm a must-have accessory for pocket lighting is their LED light pack you'll find these online on eBay you can buy them really easily and really cheaply they come in all different shapes and sizes from square packs right through to these nifty little radar lights now rhodolite simply presses on the front here with a soft touch button that's powered by two double-a batteries and it gives it that beautiful round even soft lighting on your face which is great for filming people and portraiture or interviews before I go check out this great little pocket film this week it's called cell phone crashing - now it's gonna put a smile on your dial it's a little bit wrong but you're certainly gonna have a life from your seat check it out alright when I see you next time we're going to be looking at unlikely pocket cameras this is gonna be a really interesting one you're gonna want to shoot in four see you there you