Essential Lighting Fundamentals

Learn how to light yourself up professionally with concise and actionable tips in this video, perfect for virtual meetings with Zoom, Teams, and YouTube videos. Understand the importance of light quality, how to choose the right specifications, and set up your lights for optimal results. Discover lighting fundamentals and technique, including color rendition, white balance, direction, intensity, softness, and color. Don't let poor lighting hold you back.

00:00 Why This is Important
01:41 The Makeup of Visible Light
02:25 White Balance (Color Temperature)
02:54 Color Rendition
03:22 Spectral Light Measurement
04:55 What's the point of light indices?
06:04 Setting up Your Lights
06:34 4 Main Concepts
07:08 My Office is Not a Film Studio
07:24 Lighting Technique
07:51 Direction
08:28 LIGHTING DIAGRAM
10:51 Intensity
11:42 Softness
12:33 Color
14:41 Tips
15:31 My Setup
17:37 Ring Lights
18:00 Like and Subscribe!!

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[madamefiligrane]

This video is truely a game changer and it is so much fun to watch! Thank you for helping me to understand what I did wrong the past years as well as how to change it in the future.

[tylerwick]

Thank you for this informative video! I learned a lot. I will share this out with my network so others can learn about lighting.

One thing that would have been cool to see is you modeling different angles, intensities, and lighting types so we could see the changes in your appearance live. Keep up the awesome work with videos and I look forward to the next one!