 With everything that's going on these days it can be pretty hard to Look good in front of your colleagues in front of your family because not only do you have to look good You have to look good on camera And that's a bit of a different game than just showing up in your nicest suit So today I'm gonna teach you The most important part about looking good on camera. What is that? Well, it's lighting So I'll tell you about different lighting Techniques you can use and I'll tell you about cheap solutions You can put up so that you can improve your lighting right away and start looking good on camera Let's get to it So when it comes to the lighting, it's really all about exposure Your camera has a sensor inside of it It's opened up for a short while and it's exposed to the light and the sensor measures that light and then feeds that signal to your computer or to your memory card and Saves the information the thing is that to get natural motion blur. See this My hand blurs slightly when I wave it to get that blur the same as you want You blur gets in your eyes or in the movies The shutter speed or how quickly The pictures are taken has to be twice the frame rate so the frame rate is how many frames you take per second and the shutter speed is How long the shutter between each frame is open The general rule is that you want your shutter to be twice as fast as The frame rate. This is called the 180 degree more But the thing is you want the shutter speed to be high To be you fix your shutter speed you want the aperture Which controls the amount of light that you let in to be as big as possible Because that's how you get the best clarity and that's how you get the night's background blur And also you want the ISO or the sensitivity of the sensor to be as low as possible Because otherwise you get a bunch of extra noise in your picture. You can see in this picture I've set the ISO to auto now and it's a much more You know, it's not quite as clear. It's just not as good of a picture so what can you do about it well the cheapest you can do and probably the best For a quick fix is to get a ring light. Now, I'll link down in the description below a cheap ring light. I bought You can see it here. It's like nice and pink and this is just a light But it's in a ring. So it's got LEDs all around this ring and the idea is that you want the light to be even on your face Okay, so let's try it out. Turn on the light and it's gonna get very bright Wow, that's pretty bright. Now, let's allow the camera to adjust a bit. We want it to be focusing on me So it should yeah, there we go Now you can see how Brightly lit my faces and you can tell that the camera The shutter speed is fixed. The aperture is fixed So what the camera did is that it lowered the ISO to be able to capture this As clearly as possible and the noise in the rest of the picture has gone really down Now, of course, when you use a ring light for real, you don't really have it like this. You have it around the camera And as you can see, then you get this nice Circular reflection in your eyes. That's my eyes Reflecting the ring light and you get a nice even Lighting on my face. It becomes very flat, but it's very well lit But there are all the other solutions, so let's turn off the ring light here and allow the camera a bit to adjust So You can go beyond the ring light. So I'll link down below Something called a key light You can get pretty fancy key lights. You can get very expensive cinematic key lights But I'm using the Elgato key lights and I can control them from my phone and from the computer And it's very Convenient when you're doing a one-man production But you can get away with pretty cheap Key lights and I'll link down some down below. So what is a key light? Well, it's basically just a box light That's pretty bright and it sets the key. So the key here is the color of the light So it sets the color temperature In the picture. So I have two key lights actually I have one here to the left 45 degrees of me to the left And I have another one here to the right now we call this the key light That's the one that sets the key and the other one we call the fill light Now, let's see what the key light does We turn it on And see let's get leave the camera a bit to adjust and you can see how much it lights up my face But you can see that this side 45 degrees from the light Very well lit and here we have a lot of shadows Now You can use this for a certain effect in movies. So you want a character to appear mysterious or Conflicted or something like that But we don't usually want that When we're talking out soon, we don't want to appear conflicted or mysterious We want to be as clear as possible That's why you have another light called the fill light now. Let's turn that on What does that do? Well, it fills in the shadows. So before I have very acute shadows and now we have a light that Fills in the shadows now we can turn the brightness down a bit. So I still have some shadows But they're not as deep as before and you see if I turn it all the way up Then we get this classic situation, right? My face becomes a very flat So I really prefer it this way. My face has some character but There's still some shadows Going in the shadows give me character, but I'm still pretty lonely Okay, now the final trick is to have a background light now. I've had a background light for the entire shoot here Uh and it's all the way back there. Oh look Now it's on and you can see there's a nice background going on but if I turn it off There's not so much of a background anymore And this is more acute when you don't have a ceiling light like I have But just having a light there kind of brings light to the background So that gives you a room much more of a depth So it feels more like you're there and not just appearing on a green screen All right, that's all I have for you today. Um, so I'll link down below Links to a ring light. I'll link to the Elgato key lights that I had but I'll also link to some cheaper LED light alternatives that you can use Okay, and uh So if you like this video, please, uh, push the like button and subscribe to the channel if you want more advice like this and uh I hope you all enjoy working from home and uh And looking your best while you do it All right See you again later