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hello everyone we treat you with hard knocks welcome to another installment of behind the scenes so how we shoot our videos behind me I'm filming the street on f12 C computer case it's a beautiful aluminum chassis and today's episode is all about lighting and what you can do with lighting and other lighting emitting objects to you make your scene make your atmosphere but more pleasing if it's more warm a bit more welcoming if that's the type of look you're going for so as usual I am filming with five light sources now notice I have three lights I my orange light to add a bit of edge light that there's a different color temperature than my softboxes that their daylight bulbs one is shooting right into the ceiling but then I have this other life that shines directly on the objects that I'm filming which adds that extra edge light from this side so I have this blue light and this orange life from both sides creating this really cool warm atmosphere my third light sorry my fourth light is the outside of course I'm using ambient lighting here so that fills in the room as well and my monitor don't underestimate that using creativity to add color and atmosphere to your scene for example so this is the picture that I use because it has beautiful warm light when it's out of focus it creates this beautiful type of atmosphere so you can see in the background of this particular shot without the monitor would just be completely black and I position the camera and the object so that I have a bit of extra ambience you know if there was nothing behind the object it would be boring these are the five elements that I definitely recommend having sort of an ambient light that is delivered by the softbox by the outside light and the two extra lights such as the simple IKEA lamp and obviously a different softbox that shines directly on the object creates a really unique looking scene that isn't anything super special but it makes this shot a lot more interesting than if the monitor or any of the other lighting elements weren't there and so here's a tip for how I usually film I usually try to film in their linear format what that means is I try to capture shots as they happen and not later going back them because sometimes you can forget that unless you're taking notes and saying okay these are the shots that I still have to take so me filming it in your linear format means while I'm opening up the case I'm opening up I'll reposition the camera I think another angle I get all the micro shots while I do the procedure of actually going inside an object for example Shasti like this one and this helps me to edit easier later on because when I do storyboarding inside premiere I know that everything is pretty much after another all the shots were already pretty much aligned in form of how they should go obviously I do b-roll and extra footage and extra things that I would fit in and fill in the gaps later but if you do shoot a nonlinear format it helps a lot with the processing work and so I would definitely recommend try and please plan ahead and seeing the Edit inside your head and how you format everything and how you position everything doesn't make job easier post-processing and also while all right so here's another tip for using lighting to your advantage so right now I have my light turned off and let the camera focus so you can see with exactly what type of shot I'm trying to capture tsuki I'm trying to just show that this is the little nut that gets screwed on over here but it's a very cold shot and I'm trying to go for kind of warm effect so notice what happens when I turn my my side light on so this is kind of shooting onto the side not directly onto the object but you can already tell there's some extra elements that have appeared inside the shot and I will overlay them inside the video so you can see but we have this tiny bit out of focus elements appeared in the bottom that create this really warm nice effect where notice what happens when I turn my keep my side light off so it's a very cold and very warm shot with these unique out-of-focus elements all right one of the critical tips that I can give you for setting up your shot in terms of lighting is exposure exposure is an extremely critical element and making sure that your filming style is unique it stands out because I see so many youtubers overexposed as in the highlights are completely blown out and usually on the edges of things that where the object is blown out it makes it look you know a little bit not pro and so if you want your footage to stand out make sure to not over expose the highlights don't blow them out and instead use lighting in your advantage use different angles to make sure that for example if you window all in one corner and that's completely blown out you can reposition the camera so that the window is not visible and therefore everything is exposed in your scene correctly so make sure to don't over expose for the highlights don't completely expose for the shadows because sometimes shadows don't have to be in full detail you know you can have completely black shadows you can crush them later but highlights are very difficult to correct for unless you're shooting raw so highlights don't over expose and one tip I could give you move on to the camera are zebras if your camera support zebras make sure to enable them in my case I enabled the zebra to stay on for 90% of overexposed elements so here I can bring down my X my ISO but as you can see there's still some zebras going on so I can bring up my aperture just tiny bit so that I can still so I don't get those overexposed elements around the object as otherwise that would not be fine as color correcting for all of exposed elements is very difficult now since this episode is mainly about lighting let me show you the settings that I used on my camera now if you want to find out more about my camera gear and my entire setup make sure to check out the previous video so I'm shooting the gh4 but right now check out the settings so I'm shooting at 1.8 majority of the time which gives me the best-looking bokeh so out of the focus elements end up the field without it being in - out of focus or too creamy sometimes I stop it down - all the way to one point - because the speed booster or actually sometimes I just shoot at 2.8 and my aperture and then my shutter speed is always at 1-over 80th which means that any time there's motion and the scene so if I'm doing pants or anything like that the this is allows me to make sure that everything in the shop remains sharp so I keep it 1 1 / EDF for 1 over 100 if the shop is stationary and if I need that extra stop of light if I don't want to change my aperture and my ISO always remains that one at 200 ISO just because the gh4 is not that great in low light and me stopping it all the way - you know something higher it basically never goes above 800 and that becomes really really noisy especially at 4k so I keep it at 200 and I use my aperture and my shutter speed to adjust based on a lighting scenario and because I have the lighting in my studio I don't really need to pump the ISO higher and some you know in a specific special environment or so but this is it aperture @f 1.8 and char speed and one over eighty s one of the things about the viewing cases still is that I have a reference system that I put it inside all cases that is pretty much an identical system but that means I have to disassemble it from the previous case review but this particular example I have only one softbox firing off on this type of corner not really directing directly out the object which is this case here but slightly off it's so that I get this sort of edge light then you can actually see it here and it's a good representation of what the gh4 will finally show like and I don't have the shots on screen so you can see what I'm talking about in terms of separating the object that is lit up by a different type of source of light in terms of color temperature and my ambien orange light that is precious positioned right behind there so thank you so much for watching I hope you enjoyed this behind the scenes episode on lighting a little tips and tricks on how I know in particular example setting up lighting for this object behind me but these techniques apply to pretty much anything in terms of trying to separate your object from the background using multiple sources of light using anything that is in your possession to help you achieve a little bit different look so using your monitor for example pulling up some colorful image on there and when it's out of focus it looks beautiful having different sources of light in terms of color temperature and obviously if you can't control the intensity of the light and all these elements that would add to you having the ability to control the entire scene to your liking perfectly but it is in my case as it turns out dark right now I was able to populate the background with beautiful orange warm lighting and I have having the softbox to give the object the edge lights to sort of finish my shot and finish off with this curfew so if you enjoyed this content please leave a link please leave a like down below make sure to subscribe and fall and we'll see you in the next one you