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I have limited space in my home office. A pair of soft boxes aimed at the ceiling to bounce light into the room, a pair of photography light bulbs in holders behind a diffuser to side of the camcorder, and a reflector to back fill the light. I just recently changed this set up to remove the graininess from my videos. I got an RGB desk lamp coming in to light the background behind me.
It takes a great courage to create tutorials like this. Most of us are too scared to appear on screens and ofcourse reactions is the scary part. I hope someday I will be able to interact with people like this.
For webcam situations -- if you have multiple monitors, you can use them to provide lighting. For example, if you have a 3-monitor setup, you can put large windows or background color on the two outboard monitors using a flattering color, like amber-orange sunset. Even if the additional monitors are not attached to the computer you're using, you can attach them to some other computer to set their colors.
TWO PRO TIPS from an EYE DOC! 1. Buy glasses with THIN frames (less shadow on your face) and 2. Get a high quality anti-reflective coating on the lens ( best on the market right now is Crizal Saphire 360 as it reduces glare from more angles of light)
...or just stick a polarizing lens filter on the camera :) I'm not sure how it would work with the monitor in the background, but would definitely instantly eradicate the reflections...
thank god somebody's talking about this!! i post covers on my channel and ALWAYS struggle with the reflections in my glasses so this was super helpful! x
It would have been nice to actually show the lights in relation to where you were sitting in the first segment. I’ll try out some of these tips, thanks!
I'm a visual learner so actually seeing that soft light method was very helpful. I saw the title about wearing glasses and had to see what you were going to share. :-)
This was so timely for me, as I discovered I can't really use a teleprompter without squinting and need to use my glasses for reading from a script. Thank you.
Thanks! I use a ring light to do my live streams, and I've recently taken my glasses off to avoid the glare. Having a better ligthing setup is what I know I'll need to work on eventually, and this video was helpful for me to understand better how to do it. Then I'll be able to wear my glasses again during my live streams! :) I'm nearsighted, and I use my laptop + a flat screen tv to do my live stream presentations. I figured out a way using a chair and pillows to bring my flat screen tv closer to my face so that I could read the screen without glasses. It works, but I know my setup can be better.
As a Do It Yourselfer, I've got a couple of work lights with bright Xenon bulbs. My ceiling is white. I have excellent results hanging one from a shelf bracket and the other on a couch; both pointing up at the ceiling. Nice diffused natural lighting. Experiment with placement, and you'll have nice, diffused, natural lighting. Dunno why everyone doesn't do this...
This video is so helpful. I use light stands with LED bulbs and umbrellas that I got in a kit from Amazon. All I really needed was to know how to place them. Thanks!
literally been moving around so many times trying to film lol. I wanted natural light from window but that didn't work, moved further into the room but then the sun went away. tried with lights but the ones I have are not so good. But I think I finally get it now. No light from the front! Thank you for the video!
That popped up in my recommendations, thanks a lot. I am trying to get better lighting for my next batch of videos, your advices are really useful, thanks again 🙂
Team glasses here and this was so helpful. As a new youtuber, I've struggled with this and sometimes just take them off . I'm going to try this out on my next video..yay😁
I'm quite proud since I figured out step 1 by myself when I was taking some professional photos and I was seeing the light in my glasses. Moved the light over to the side and boom! No glare! I'll definitely be using the webcam lighting tricks since I have a few interviews coming up for work!
I have a really small desk space to do my work, so I am using the house lighting, inset lighting in the ceiling on my right which is actually less than a foot in front of me. I added a desk lamp to my left to serve as a fill ight. I only have glare if I leave my monitors on while I record. I have a Panasonic HDC-TM700 video camera to film with.
nice tips. instead of locating key light on your left side and have deep shadow on right, can't we use a softbox+speedlight 45 degrees over the head so reflexions go to the floor instead of to the camera so you don't need fill light ?
This is such a huge huge help. I'm filming more videos and my glasses are driving me nuts haha I have a soft box for a LED panel light, but the shadows of the frames are just still a little too strong. I will definitely try some more things! Thank you
For my home studio I have a 10 inch ring light to my right and have a hand made rig with under cabinet lights to my left. I use a ton of ambient light to try and separate from my background.
Thanks for these tips 👊🏽 they helped me solve that problem for shooting todays batch of videos and I know they'll help me all the way into future videos 💥💯
I knew it was a matter of time before I heard someone using this song in the BG. It was the first song I fell in love with looking on epidemic sound lol
Thx for the tips. I have struggled with this for a minute. I use a basic 3 soft box lighting set up (key, fill and hair/back) depending on the room I'm in, at this time.
I have a simple 3 light studio kit (usually just use the two) from Cowboy Studios. Daylight fluorescent balanced bulbs bounced off white umbrellas. I get them high enough to keep the glare off my glasses.
Might I suggest that reflections from glasses/sun-glasses is actually a good thing? What do I mean by that? I mean that there seems to be a direct correlation between eye-glass reflection and skin reflection (e.g. from the forehead, cheekbones or nose). So if you can minimize reflection from eyeglasses, you (by default) have also minimized unwanted skin reflections. Even if your "talent" normally does not wear glasses/sun-glasses, before actually shooting, have them put on glasses as a test. If you get no reflection from the glasses, you can be pretty sure you will also get a minimum amount of reflection from the skin. Remove the "test glasses" before actually shooting, of course. (Do I really need to say that?" 😅😂🤣)
I found this trying to sort out lighting for Zoom video conferencing and none of the other videos addressed glare on glasses. Thanks very much for these tips. Fortunately, I have a three box lighting rig so I can play around with natural and fill lighting.
I knew a photographer who used to keep a box of all sorts of styles of eye glass frames with no lenses. No lenses, no glare. Be claimed he didn't have any issues with customers posing with frames that weren't their own. A very expensive trick (that I can't afford to do) is to buy large sheets of polarizer material (edmond Optics may still sell that) and DIY cover all your lighting with it in the same polarization direction. The last thing to do is to put a polarizer on your lens and cross polarize it. Other than being way too expensive, the one downside is that you may lose the natural sheen most people have on their skin from their natural skin oils. Some people may not like this rendering.
@@SusanAyinkamiye Agreed, soften the light. But there isn't a lot you can do in a situation with no other option for lights. For you, better lighting is better than having no glare. Also, do some experiments! Sit down in a few different spots, try to get rid of the glare. But then look on a computer and see what shot looks the best!
I'm using a big soft box bounced against the wall behind my monitor as you suggest. I have a Logitech web cam. Fortunately, I also have a bright studio, so the lighting overall is nice as well.
I work with an overabundance of natural light - windows on all four sides, and lots of tropical sunlight. It's always a challenge, so I usually take off my glasses.
I literally never research stuff like this, until today because I'm getting started with doing yt videos properly.... and im a glasses user. So, I was half way through this video, when I looked at the views and was surprised to only see 728 views! ...Like, this video os pro and good advice... Then I saw that it's literally only just been released today! XD Top tips, thats all!
In 1 hour, those views have already doubled lol (I only looked because I had the heart notification) ....I wish my review videos would get this much attention 🤣
