Your Lighting Setup

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Okay, another important thing to remember inside of recording is that you're going to need your lighting there, your lighting is so important to actually getting the proper setup that you want. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to show you just a quick idea of how you should be looking at your setup. Now, let's just take for example, this would be your desk. And I'm hoping you may be against the wall. If that's the case, then I do suggest that you come out at least about a foot or two. So that way you can actually position a light right here, and this is usually going to be what I call a day time, light.

Alright, so this daytime light is going to illuminate the front of your face and it's going to make it stand out a lot from the background. This is extremely important because you Want to highlight yourself in a very positive way webcams don't quite initiate the right. How should I say spectrum of light in order to record great features of your face in your body, in fact, it will often show off the shadows. And he basically bad things that are on your face will just be a glare. And you don't want that. In fact, what you want is for that tempered light or that daytime to come on, make you contrast and stand out.

But it's not just that daytime, if you get a daytime only, and you have that little bit of room away from your wall, then what that's going to do is it's actually going to produce this artifact that will create a dark luminescence around you almost shadows. And you don't want that. In fact, what I tend to do is I usually you can either play Place this right beside you, or what I like to do is on the floor, I place another light and this is usually just a lamp. All right, that's as simple as it is. And then it's not only here because now you're going to get some backlight from here. You also want to place another one beside a little bit behind you.

And again, it's adding in that light. And that can be again, another lamp, so it's not going to cost you too much. Usually a daytime light, you can actually get one for about $20 I'm going to give you a link for that so that you can buy it, look it up on Amazon or eBay. Either way, it's going to be about the same price. Like I said, it's going to be somewhere 15 $20 even if it's used, and you're going to be able to go to Home Depot, Lowe's any sort of place and get what's known as a daytime light. I like to usually suggest 60 watts.

That's what even this one I'm going to be suggesting to be just the holder, and you can place that up against your wall, it's gonna just take a simple nail, and you nail that right in and you're done. So it's a simple light that hangs up on your wall, you're gonna put it usually at about 30 to 60 degree angle, so that way and you'll play with it a little bit, and it's pretty nice the way that it has some good play and the hinge is pretty tight. So that way, you can angle it any way that you want, so that it contrasts the background, but it doesn't create too much of a shadow or too much light on your face so that you look, you know, if you're Caucasian or white like me, then you don't just completely glare out and create this really wide almost effect.

And then the lamps again, are going to allow that natural light to flood in. I don't suggest daytime. Usually what you're going to get is something anything below a daytime line is going to be okay. But once you have those two side lamps, that's going to make all the difference and allow you to stand out and get this clear picture just like you see me in and I could make this my background right here with my you know, cabinet and desk, but you can also have a black background as well and that's still gonna have you stand out be extremely professional. And like I said, the lighting is a huge difference maker in how you look and it doesn't cost too much. Again, this is probably gonna cost about 20 a lamp you can get this maybe from in the States, there's something called Ross but just any type of normal home and bedroom furniture store, you can pick up a lamp that's fairly inexpensive, again gets involved, that's going to cost you probably another 10 bucks from Home Depot or another home goods store.

Once you have that your setup is going to To be absolutely stunning, it's going to be a big difference compared to what you previously had. I guarantee it no matter what the setup, no matter how little sun comes in or does come in, it's going to make you stand out much more, add more detail. That's of course going to increase the attention minute attention span and the sales of everything that you do.

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