 set up a home studio that makes you look good and just uses some stuff that you've got sitting around the house that'll work great. First up is a floor lamp. This is actually just a desk lamp that I've taken and put on the floor back behind the chair. This is going to serve as your backlight and give you better definition and make you look better on the camera. This is just a standard desk lamp and as you can see it's an LED light. We'll turn that on and that is a very bright light, too bright. So what we'll use is a piece of white plastic that we're going to put over that light and turn it into what's called a softbox. And all you need is something really simple like this target bag, as you can see. So what I did was I put the target bag over the lamp and what this does is it softens the light and makes you look much better on camera without all of the harsh shadows. That mixed with the backlight is really all that you need to create a great lighting system out of stuff that you've got sitting around the house. Next let's look at the laptop and camera. As you can see the laptop is sitting on the desk here. It's a little low. So what you need to do is take some books or a box, something like that and put it underneath the laptop so that the camera right here at the top of the laptop is pretty much equal to your eye level. So it's sitting right there at the eye level. Okay as you can see what I've done is I put a box underneath the laptop and it's brought the screen to eye level and you're going to get a much better view from the camera straight to you. You won't have that downward look. You know with the double chins you'd get a much better looking picture like this. Next make sure that your headphones and your mic are plugged in to your laptop and put those on or if you're using something like a headphone with a mic on it plug that in and if you've got a desktop mic make sure that it's within about one foot or less of your mouth as you're speaking so that it picks you up well. And that pretty much is all that you need to create your own home studio that will make you look really quite good on video conferences.