Speaker 1: You might be using your lights all wrong and so here are the five most common lighting mistakes. Number one is lighting positioning. A lot of people put their lights at eye level but you really want your camera at eye level and your lighting to be just above the camera. This is going to help shape your face a bit better and add more dimension to the shot with extra shadows to give you a bit more definition in the face as well. This isn't the only way to do it, this is just kind of the standard so definitely experiment and see how this looks for you. But one of the things you can avoid by moving your lights up above the camera is those where reflections in glasses so definitely take this into consideration when you are placing your lights. Now you need to remember that every light has a set color temperature. Some are set to daylight like this and some are warmer like this. Now the GVM-SD600D can be set to a daylight temperature and it can also be changed to a warmer temperature like this which is called a bicolor light. For most YouTube setups I recommend setting your light to 5600 Kelvin and this is going to replicate daylight so as you're outside this is going to give you that same type of color that the sun will give you in midday. Or if you're buying a light the chances are it's already going to be set to 5600 Kelvin right around there or set to a daylight temperature. Now the most common mistake that I see people making is that they're not white balancing their camera to their key light. Now the key light is the main light that you're using and you want to make sure that your camera settings match the color temperature of that light. This is what it can look like when your white balance is off in your camera and then this is what it can look like with the correct white balance. So don't blame your lights quite yet for making your skin color look all weird. Try setting the custom white balance in your camera first and we have a full tutorial on how to do this in the link in the description. Now you can use the camera's automatic white balance and that's going to make it really easy for you but you do risk the color slightly changing throughout your video when you're filming and that's why I always recommend just setting the white balance manually inside your camera. The third mistake that I commonly see is not using diffusion on your lights and this is just going to give you a really harsh lighting setup. Soft boxes are such an easy way to add a much more cinematic lighting to your shot. Here you can see what it looks like with no diffusion and then here is what it looks like with a soft box added in. You can get soft boxes for almost any light even these LED panels you can pop these open and stick them on the LED panels and these really help add a much softer light to these small light sources. But when it comes to using soft boxes I really do prefer to use a COB or a cob light. These lights were really made to be used with soft boxes and adding this soft box is going to make your lighting look so much better but it's also going to make your light a little bit darker which is why cob lights are so awesome to use is because they get much brighter especially for the price that you're paying. Keep in mind that these lights get very bright but they're intended to be used with soft boxes so you definitely need the space in your room or in your setup to be using a light like this. On these cob lights they have attachments made for these soft boxes so it's really easy to slide it in and snap in a soft box to that light. And on the SD600D light by GVM you can use a large soft box and still get tons of light out of this because this light is so bright. If you're someone who is shooting videos outside or you need something that is just extremely bright because maybe you need to place it a bit farther away in a podcast setup or something like that I think this is a great light for you to get. Now there are lights similar to this like the Aputure 600D but those are going to be a lot more expensive so especially if you can catch this on sale like it is right now you can save a lot of money by going with this light and still have an incredibly bright and high quality light. Now the fourth common mistake that I see a lot of people doing is using their lights at full brightness especially when it's not needed. When you're using a bright light at full brightness you have to darken the image in your camera and this is going to darken kind of the natural setting that you're in and this makes the lighting look very harsh and kind of spotlighty. Now one easy tip that you can do is start by turning your main key light off and then adjusting your camera till the setting around you looks good and the background lights and the lamps that you have until those look good and then you're going to bring your key light in next and then you can adjust that key light to your shot. Now mistake number five that I commonly see people doing is using way too many lights and truly if you just have one softbox you can get away with lighting your YouTube setup with just one light. If you click on the screen I'll show you exactly how to place it and how to set it up to get a cinematic image.