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Make Eyes Pop on Camera with This Simple Lighting TrickOne 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 vloggers use a ring light situated directly in front of them.The reflection of that ring light … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Catch Lights and Room Setups

Shooting Secrets Creators Don't Show YouWhen 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 they are these super smooth presentation experts that never screw up!The truth is that they, like everyone else mess … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Shooting Secrets and an A.I. Comparison

Lighting Setup Masterclass for YouTubeA 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 and shoot" family and friends stuff for me!So the style of video that I was going to be learning and shooting … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Setups for YouTube and Speed Ramping

$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 began I figured out some of the things I thought I needed and slapped it all together and off we … [Read more...] about 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 Lens (fixed focal length) was always going to be better than a Zoom Lens (variable focal length).At that time it was true because making zoom … [Read more...] about The Friday Roundup – Zoom Lens or Prime Plus Microphones