Make Eyes Pop on Camera with This Simple Lighting Trick One tiny little detail that is often missed on lighting tutorials is the idea of positioning one of your lights to cause a little reflection in the subject’s eye. One of the most obvious examples of this is when beauty…
Continue Reading […] The Friday Roundup – Catch Lights and Room Setups
Shooting Secrets Creators Don’t Show You When you look at a lot of the videos that well known creators produce and upload, they all look pretty slick from the outside. Because of that, when you first start out for yourself, you tend to get the idea that…
Continue Reading […] The Friday Roundup – Shooting Secrets and an A.I. Comparison
Lighting Setup Masterclass for YouTube A few years back now I started shooting videos for my wife who wanted to start her own YouTube channel. Up until that point I was mainly involved in editing videos and as far as shooting them went, it was strictly “point…
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$100 Cinematic YouTube Studio Setup (Full Guide) When I first started shooting footage for my wife for her YouTube channel I really didn’t know too much about shooting in that specific situation. I was always more an editing guy than a video shooting guy! So when I…
Continue Reading […] The Friday Roundup – YouTube Setups and Voice Clones
Zooms or Prime Lenses? One of the questions that may come up for you when you move up to a dedicated video shooting camera like a DSLR or an MILC is that of lenses. There used to be an assumption not too long ago that a Prime…
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Film Composition for Beginners Shot composition is another of those seemingly “unseen” factors that determines how your audience will respond to your videos. When I say “unseen,” I mean unseen by the audience although possibly unseen by you the creator as well! Your audience will not be…
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Your Color Grading Looks Wrong… Here’s Why A while back now my wife started doing the final editing of some of her videos rather than having to wait around for me to get to it. Anyway that was fine cos’ hey, it’s not like she was paying…
Continue Reading […] The Friday Roundup – Bad Color Results and A.I. Storytelling