 Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosel here. So I wanted to do a video demonstrating sort of what I think was a somewhat creative use for a telescoping mini desk tripod from Yulanzi and that is what you're seeing in the corner of the screen. I basically just got a light up onto that and you can see that it's sitting on top of the Yulanzi MT34 and it's doing its thing that's my desk light next to it and that's what you're actually seeing illuminating me here is this desk light. Now what I want to do here in or in this in this video is I'm going to just talk a little bit about the various things that you can use for sidelighting. Now just want to point out I make these videos to share my ongoing journey through YouTube as they sort of try to get a bit better at this. I'm recording these vlogs using OBS Studio. I really encourage people to check out that tool. It's super powerful. I love the fact you can record multiple webcams in that is crazy, crazy useful. But yeah, so not coming across as the expert here or not intending to. I am showing you guys a way to do this and particularly because it's a way using fairly cheap gear. So if you don't have a ton of money to spend on accessories and that's kind of my situation. I'm sort of budgety in this process then some of this stuff could work nicely. So you know I do buy from AliExpress and it takes a while to get to where I'm based four to six weeks. So that kind of creates a strong incentive to use what I have and see how see what can be made to work. So this light that you're looking at on the side. Now before I demonstrate what I've done here with Stylianzee, I want to show you guys a couple more options that I was playing around with. One of these and this is again just kind of repurposing gear. This is actually a webcam scissor arm and I've noticed that a lot of the AliExpress vendors who are selling these ring lighting kits are selling the ring light or the LED panel and they're selling it with one of these boom arms. So that could totally work and I actually did this last night, but if you already have a boom arm particularly if it has a quarter inch quarter inch on the top then you don't need to go for one of these kits and I generally don't like the whole kind of kit setup thing. So this is what I did yesterday and it worked really nicely. I personally didn't go with this because I don't like generally cluttering up my desk even further than it is already cluttered. With a bunch of things that are always connected there. So, you know, this is nice. It does connect with a this kind of a thing. It's a screw-in at, you know, tourniquet system and you just kind of put your desk here, put this here and just kind of screw screw screw until it clamps on. It's got a little clamping mechanism there. Now that worked nicely and if you don't have my neuroticism about cluttering up your desk with gear then I would say it probably might make more sense. But one disadvantage would be that when you have the stand you can really move about your desk. Now I have a big wide desk and it was, if I want to put that light, the light that you're looking at off to the side then it would be very far off to the side. So using this stand gives me a little bit more flexibility. The second option to mention is what this actually came with. So the light you're looking at here or the light that you're looking, you're watching me be lit with. So this was, I picked this up on Amazon. It was marketed as a like, you know, laptop Zoom video conference lighting kit. And if you take those words away all it really meant was that it had this little clip on thing, thingy magic. I'm really, really nailing the terminology today. It had this little clip on thing. So this would go on to your laptop and then it's got a little GoPro style thing here to show you the other side and this is a quarter inch, right? So you just, you know, mechanisms pretty straightforward. You just loosen up the this and then you can just move this about and because it's got a quarter inch with nice little soft material there, you can just mount. I mean, you could totally put a microphone on that. So these are useful things I bought a couple to have just around the place to put different lights and different plates, different lights in different places. You know, you could put a microphone on this. You could have a shotgun microphone on this as you do the video blogs. I think these are really good tools if you're doing as Zooms or even if you're doing a professional interview from a, from your laptop or you're being interviewed by a TV station and they want to interview you over Skype. Those are all situations where if you're in an airport business center pulling out something like this with a bit of lighting is brilliant. Nevertheless, if you are in a more sort of stationary setup like the home office I'm recording this from, I don't think you, I think you can go a little bit more go for more optimal solutions and I didn't want something that was just kind of sticking on to my monitor for hours at a time. I was a little bit worried that it would somehow damage it. So this is why I went for this solution. So that's, those are the other things that you can do and that I was doing in the last day to get some lighting. But I really prefer this. So let me just turn on webcam 2 or switch over to cam 2 and I am now going to put that up to full screen if I can figure this out. And I will be showing you momentarily what this actually looks like. So here it is, big reveal. So this is the Yulanzi MT34. This is the clip on light that I picked up on Amazon. Now I'm doing these videos to show, show my creative process and what I'm using. I'm not trying to sell affiliate stuff on Amazon. So I will not be putting a link in the description, but honestly, they're all kind of the same. They tend to have a quarter inch at the bottom. So what I did was I just kind of like reverse, let's say reverse engineer. It sounds way too fancy, but I just took the light off the stand here and then I just mounted the webcam at the Yulanzi MT34 and I basically just put this on top and that's the setup. So if I just kind of bring you guys out, you can understand a bit more what we're doing here. So this is the, this is the lighting here. This is the webcam that you're sort of watching me from the main webcam, the C930E. That's where I have OBS running and that's my other screen. So I can sort of move this lighting source about my desk. I can tilt it up. I can tilt it down. It's got a ball mount on the top here. So if I want to pivot the light up or down, now it's locked at the moment and I'm holding the webcam with one hand. So this is a little tricky, but you get the idea. I can move that basically all the way to place, which is super, super useful, very useful. I'm trying to avoid using the word super because I have to be honest, it kind of annoys me a little bit. So that's basically the setup that I'm running with here and the Yulanzi MT34 is really nice. So it's a piece of kit. I reviewed it before on this YouTube channel. The advantage that I see in it over other little cheap Yulanzi tripods and monopods, et cetera, is that it has a telescopic pole. It has a quarter inch on the top. So it's not, you're not just limited to putting smartphones up there and it has a tripod built into it. So something I learned very quickly doing video blogs from different places and some of those, some of those were failed efforts, but you don't want to be kind of bringing around like you could bring a little tripod and a stick and a quarter inch and adapters with you. But you want to have stuff when you're out in the field. You want to have stuff that just kind of works and that's ready to like be sprung out of your bag, set up on a table, camera on it, boom. You don't want to be messing about. So that is what I'm using it for. And I wanted to show you guys just the difference it makes. So the lights about here relative to me. So you can see my face on this side, that up a bit more than this side. And this is me playing with the levels, turning the light down. I'm going to go and turn the light off so you can see the difference. And even when it's off, bear in mind, there is a desk light over there and IKEA desk light. So it's not, it won't be totally lightless, but it should make nevertheless quite a difference. So now I've turned it totally off. And I can see maybe this will come through in the video. Just the web cams starting to struggle a bit versus the, I'm starting to get some lines in the screen. And it's also quite easy to just go way too bright on this thing. So now I have it at full maximum brightness and it's very, very bright. So I've been keeping it for the most part just at its second level and plugging this in to a USB plug. So yeah, I think that's pretty much all I can say about it. Yulanzi MT34 with a recording light for video conferencing makes, I think, a nice webcam, a nice little vlogging setup. So I'm just going to go and down, down, down, down, down and I can easily telescope up and down. So here's the tripod that it's sitting on the desk with. I can put the tripod down and I can just go all the way and this gives me so I can get that light relatively high, like above the height of my monitors. If you can see it all the way back here and I can telescope all the way down to here. I'm going to just turn it off for a second so that I can show you the ball bearing thing I didn't show without cutting off the, so there you go. So now I've loosened up the joint at the top and you can see that like if I want to pivot the light forward and get it up, whoops, pivot the light forward a little bit, maybe not that much. Let's just do this much, let's do this much and then I want to like set it up to this height, then I just need to go to the bottom and firm up on that locking ring and now look, I've got a nice little light that's about this high monitor height or there about, but it's, and when I want to put it away, the difference between having that sitter thing is it's, this thing is really, really easy. I just push it all the way down and then I can store it on a cabinet just in this setup with the light on top and you know, it's only about sort of 20 centimeters high. So I hope this video was useful. I love the way that all these camera accessories are interchangeable, quarter inch mounts, you can put stuff onto camera tripods and see if it works and hopefully this will prove to be a successful example of that kind of experimentation process. Hope this video was useful. If you'd like to get more videos from me, please feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel.