Gadgetory

so my space is pretty tiny considering I review so many large products like cases but it's not about the size of your space it's about your attitude and many people who have come to check out the space they were like this is it and I see that as a compliment because being able to establish the variety in compositions and shot diversity so that it doesn't all look the same means that I'm doing something right and I see it as a challenge the challenge of utilizing every meter of your space so that nothing goes to waste and so I used my desk my floor and my carpet and my empty wall and my super busy wall and my mouse mat too and even my packaging foam right there my storage shelf is used for shots and also this shelf is used for shots too you can use your mirrors for a little extra variety and you can even use your monitor for extra background color you can use your window for the silhouette work and obviously your body for whatever potential product that might fit within your seat creativity is fueled by the best instruments it doesn't always come easy and in the process you often realize how important quality is the Rd 400 bio CC gives you quality and speed with M de tu interface the Shiban and flash and a pci bracket making it possible to focus on what matters invest in storage that makes a difference with a 5 year advanced warranty also fred loves to be on camera because he adds a splash of color to your scene and he's easy to hide in my composition so he's not like right in your face but if you're looking for him you're most likely hard to find him I also use my living room sometimes for shots clean it up make sure that the couch is clean use a tighter lens yeah and while I do have this dedicated space with a white wall in the white table for that clean product photography and video it's awesome to be able to mix in the floor color the carpet texture the the sunlight on it this metallic shelf you know just play around with it and see what you can come up with smaller space also means it's easier to light so I used to have two giant soft boxes that really closed off the space and they always fired into the top to create this really nice ambient spill for the rest of the room but with a single light this whole room becomes a giant softbox because of the white ceilings and the white walls which means no giant softbox needed for the light itself meaning I can breathe in my room but what if I require this particular look that a softbox delivers well this is where this reflector five and one comes in see I can reflect my sunlight which is nice and simple but I can also block it with this black cover I have a gold piece that I can reflect for a little extra warmth I have a white piece or for the white reflection but now I'm starting to use this thing more and more it's a giant diffusion to create that really large nice catch light in my eye without actually having this giant softbox on the light because this is a lot thinner and a lot easier to in my smaller space which is why I'm starting to use this a lot more often as you can see the actual diffuser is a bit bigger than my shooting table and imagine having a softbox of this size in my space would just not be possible so I use the diffuser attach it to a clamp on another light stand to create this very nice large diffused light that creates a really good cache light in my eyes and so this has been my most recent lighting setup one light firing in diffusion and while you can see it does require a little bit more room the actual storage of this stuff and like setting it up is super simple and then on this side we had that nice diffusion so if I'm right in front of it I get full fill as you can see my eyes are quite that that giant light in there and by rotating I couldn't create that nice soft shadow roll off and then because right now we have a lot of sunlight coming in I can close the windows or wait for the Sun to go down to completely control my lighting situation so the white balance and there's no like light mixing and the only softbox that I currently own is this light dome mini the thing is super tiny which is why I bought it from my space because I thought that it would be perfect but the actual light diffusion is not soft at all it's quite harsh which is why I use this much cheaper solution which gives me a much better result now my lighting stands are full plastic but I'm working with what I've got so far so my light right now is sitting on this plastic pole I'm a bit worried and I'm very careful with it the diffusion is fine to be held up by this thing but as you can see there's that big black line through diffusion which actually creates a cool effect in the catch light which is why I'm using the microphone stand now to hold the diffusion if I don't need this black line in the middle so I use this mic stand normally for the microphone when I'm doing things in front of the camera but it's got this loopy thing BAM diffusion now without the black line on either side and this is what I look like when illuminated just by diffusion from the sunlight from the window that light is currently off and yeah very nice and soft nice big catch light in my eye too and so that's how I like my space one light one diffuser and currently using as much natural light as possible the diffuser is blocking some of that sunlight coming in that you can see is very hard from the wall but yeah the next issue that we stumble upon in such space is audio now despite this room being somewhat filled you know that whole wall is here that whole space is filled up I have a carpet there's still a lot of echo so one solution obviously is a shotgun microphone that has some noise cancellation properties and now I've started to place these packaging foam materials in each corner of my space and I'm not sure if they're doing anything but I think I can hear less echo and they're just in the four corners I mean the foam is quite small and there no it's nothing on the acoustic foam it's just packaging foam but I'm hoping that it's actually doing something and I've also realized that if I open my window it becomes less actually because there's a bit more ambient noise and that helps to drown out some of the echo just a little tip that I use because a lot of complaints have passed saying that there's a lot of echo in the audio and please if you have any suggestions on how to treat this space without covering the whole walls with acoustic foam please let me know in the comments because audio is very important and I think that's one of the areas that my videos have been quite lacking recently well look at that I've never actually utilized this angle before I like it so now let me tease a few upcoming projects the one plus 5t has been my daily driver I love taking pictures with this thing especially in portrait mode the actual bokeh roll off like the out-of-focus elements is fantastic so I've got the sandstone white edition and I'll be comparing it versus an actual camera for portraits stay tuned for that video oh yeah also a few packages have just arrived that I'm super excited to share with you guys that are sure to keep them busy for the next few weeks let me show you so on the cases front the NZXT th400 the micro ATX version I'm waiting for some hardware for this micro DX test because I don't have much micro-atx hardware so stay tuned for that and this guy just arrived today the Corsair 500d the new obsidian and which one would you like to see first let me know in the comments we also get a ton of requests to review budget peripherals so here are something that I'm hoping will satisfy that exact request I'm really bad at unboxings alright so what I have in front of me are mice gaming mice in particular that I found on Amazon that you guys can buy and they're all in between 10 to $15 this one doesn't even have any graphics on the packaging I like it stay tuned for that video once I actually do some full testing on each of these so I have one two three four five six seven eight I'm supposed to have nine oh well but probably one of the more exciting products for me would be in this box it's from some hyzer oh you guys know how much I love my audio products oh wow look at this looks kind of funny to him isn't it alright good people so hope you found this video helpful let me know which of these products you want to see on the channel first we always listen and we always try to deliver I'm Dimitri thanks so much for watching we'll see you in next video