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>>YAN HUANG: If you’ve thought about making videos, whether it’s for YouTube or Vimeo
or
for your website, one of the key things is the lighting.
You have to make sure the lighting is good.
You can start off with an inexpensive camera, but you’ve got to make sure that the lighting’s
good.
Otherwise, if you have a lightbulb, for example, just right above you,
it comes off really poor, presentation-wise.
What ended up happening with me was, one of my lightbulbs broke.
I had to find a replacement.
I went up to Home Depot, and then from there, I realized, hey, there’s actually a lot
of factors involved
in picking out a lightbulb.
Originally, I ended up buying just a kit with everything in it, because
I didn’t really know what was what.
With the lightbulb, if you actually buy individually, you’ll probably save more money as well,
and you’ll know what you’re working with, component-wise.
For the lightbulbs, you’ll need, first of all, a lightstand, which costs around $10.
I’ll include
a link to that, to my Amazon account, so you can buy it through there. I think they give
me, like, three percent,
or two percent, or something like that.
Also, the actual lights that I use are these long ones, that are 13 inches.
When I was at Home Depot -- basically, right now, I have one of them. The other one
is broken, so I have a replacement from Home Depot.
I had to do a bunch of research to find out what the best replacement was, and
there’s actually multiple factors that go into a lightbulb.
When you’re looking for studio lighting, a couple of things you want to look at is
how many watts it is and how many watts it’s equivalent to, because
a lot of the cold-cathode lights -- the actual energy consumption is different
than what it’s equivalent to, of a normal lightbulb.
So you have to look at the watts, what it’s equivalent to, and that also translates
into a metric called...the lumens. I may be pronouncing that wrong, but if I recall correctly,
1 watt is equivalent to around 50 or 60 lumens. So that’s another factor to look at.
Then there’s also the temperature of the light.
The temperature -- the higher it is, it goes into more of the blue spectrum, which creates
more of a daylight, or white light, which is what you want to look for.
What I’d recommend is around 5000 to 5500. I believe mine is 5500.
So, those are the factors that you want to look at.
For the actual watts itself, the ones I use are 105 watts, but that’s equivalent
to 400 watts of a normal lightbulb.
If you have just used, like, a 100-watt normal lightbulb, that’s quite bright. So imagine
four times that.
You’ve got two of them, or three of them, and it’s really bright. It’ll add a lot
of value
to your videos, and it’ll drastically improve the presentation.
Because if you’ve ever took a photo of a dark place versus one in daylight, the one
in daylight’s going to come out much better just because your camera isn’t straining
to capture all that detail, and that’s true when you’re making how-to videos as well.
What I’ll do is...I’ll provide a link, also, to the lightbulb that I use.
What I did was -- since mine broke -- I got a temporary one from Home Depot, and I also
ordered the actual one from Amazon, which
I’ll include the link to the exact one that I use, as well as the stand -- so if you buy
it from there,
you’re supporting me, and I get two or three percent of the purchase value.
Hopefully you found value in this, and also, if you found this informative, please
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