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well hey there everyone its Jon Q here from technobuffalo and in this video I'm gonna cover some very basic video letting tips now you might be wondering what does this have to do with technology absolutely nothing however if you're plenty of making technology related videos for the YouTube then you should pay attention because guess what video lighting is just as important if not more so than the camera you used to film that's right right now I'm using a Canon t2i to broadcast my awesome self just kidding about the awesome part not kidding about the camera which is usually a step up compared to the camera used by the average youtuber but if my lighting setup were to suck then my video quality would suck watch thanks see everything's all dark and underexposed it's terrible actually it's not that bad that's better lighting it's like sunshine i can feel the sunshine in my face now i'm pretty sure some of you guys have already searched up some sort of lighting tutorial and trust me i do the exact same thing in fact i do it all the time because i feel like i always want to improve and if you guys are serious about your video quality you would have the same drive and on top of that people like other people who are motivated and have a can-do attitude and it also helps to give a thumbs up every now and then and random times yeah so in this video I'm gonna show you my basic lighting setup what I've tried what works what doesn't want to recommend for you and yes oh yes how you can save the most amount of money to get the best value for your lighting are you ready okay the standard style of lighting is called three-point lighting which uses three main sources of light obviously if you can get three point lighting to work for you then great I recommend that however if you're like me and you're stuck in a really small room getting three point lighting to work is quite tricky and trust me I've tried oh how I've tried and failed which is why don't use three point lighting ultimately in the end if the video footage and the lighting looks good to you that's all that matters so here is my basic lighting setup I had two main sources of light while technically three I have my overhead light which most household room should have this guy up there access my back lighting which brings me away from the background and puts more focus and tension on me in the foreground look at it working isn't it nice look at my shoulder it's all shiny and everything the other source of light comes from a really basic floor lamp what you can pick up for twenty dollars at a Walmart or any hardware store make sure it has a gooseneck attachment if it doesn't you can always buy a gooseneck lamp with a clamp on it like what I have right here from my floor lamp i have right behind my camera and the gooseneck lamp pointing right on my face if at any point you feel like the lights are too bright try bouncing it off the wall this is called diffusing and it softens up the light quite a bit so if you're ever in this scenario if this was sunlight I'm definitely feeling the happy it's best if you try to diffuse the light yeah if you ever think you need another light source or if you want to try three point lighting you can try picking up one of these desk lamps right here it costs about ten bucks so you can't really go wrong with that well what about natural sunlight you might be asking it's all bright happy and full of vitamin D I film in a basement with no windows therefore there is no sunlight however for the purpose of control I recommend you not use sunlight as your main source of light feel free to have it as background lighting though it's great gives you hints of happy and vitamin D let's move on to light bulbs I've experimented with a lot a lot of light bulbs standard household light bulbs have three basic color temperatures soft White's bright or cool white and daylight or sunlight soft white is what most people will use in their homes in living rooms bedrooms and so on it's the one with the orange II hint to it bright or cold white is what you might find in an office space or in a garage it doesn't really have a color hint but it makes things look rather dull and sunlight or daylight bulbs I don't know where you'd find this in an average home but it has a really really strong hint of blue to it and avoid these unless you're planning on shooting with sunlight the color temperature of lighting is measured in kelvins the standard color temperature for lighting in professional film and video is 3,200 Calvin soft white is around 2,700 cool white is 4,200 and sunlight is 5500 unless you plan on picking up special video light bulbs or if your department store somehow carries 3200 Calvin light bulbs I'd recommend you stick with the soft white ones as for whether or not to get the old-school incandescent light bulbs or the new eco-friendly light bulbs I go on a spiral it all depends on how much you love the environment and the earth if you're not sure which color temperature light bulb you like the best I recommend you get the incandescent ones first just to try it out because it's one tenth of the price of the eco friendly ones something I have to stress out is try not to mix color temperature light bulbs and if you can make sure all your light bulbs are from the same company that's because it makes balancing very tricky on the camera and it makes things very tricky to color correct in post-production the last thing I want to talk about is money because we work hard for our ching ching so we want to spend it on some bling-bling not on light bulbs who spends money on light bulbs anyways I did lots of them let's just say a Wendy I want to save money approach but ended up spending a lot of money doing so do you need professional lighting equipment that might cost at least a hundred dollars unless you want to do freelance shooting where you have to appear professional or unless you like to impress your friends and family probably not if you simply want or need more lighting I'd recommend you get one of these yeah so powerful in Manly for forty dollars you get 1000 watts of power that's bang for your buck right there and believe it or not this lighting kit is very very common with students and low-budget filmmakers let's see it in action shall we have a setup pointed at the wall bang nice even letting right here because of how bright it is i definitely don't recommend you have it close to your face good as you can see these guys are very bright and they work extremely well a downside would be that they get very hot and they use a lot of power every time one of these lights is left on for too long a part of the planet dives you ever wonder what pandas are endangered now you know so to recap for good video lighting all you need are a couple light bulbs a house lamp or two and you're set of course you have to fine-tune your setup as in where to put the lambs how many light bulbs you need and so on if you guys want me to cover anything else that has to do with video production just let me know by commenting below who knows this can become a john for lakers / TechnoBuffalo video series just like what LP did with the console wars LP what a legend well that's it for now I'll see you guys in the next video little