Look Better on Video Calls With These Easy Lighting Tips
Look Better on Video Calls With These Easy Lighting Tips
Looking good on camera isn’t always easy. That’s why there are professional photographers and videographers out there with lighting gear in tow. When you’re on a Zoom call or Facetime, you rarely have access to great lighting. How do you make the most of your dim at-home environs? In this video, a professional video producer will show you some easy lighting tips at home.
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@2:30 "if you really don’t want people peering in on your disgusting living quarters" – that made me chuckle. Hands up to the grubs!
Very very helpful! Especially the lamp bouncing effect.
Thank you Tom.
Doing zoom meetings now for a course I’m taking and my situation was way too dark
Gonna try that lamp thing out. Thanks!
Helpful and simple, thanks.
Do you have any recommendations for night time Zooms, where there’s no natural light? Thank you so much!
Great mix of animation, footage and humour, thanks. And guys, once you’ve got your lighting sorted, fix these other two things – webcam position and background control. Here’s a tutorial: https://youtu.be/PujQcbI4x8w
My big question – how did you keep all those lights from reflecting off your glasses?
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Thank you for explaining. Doesn’t zoom also adjust automatically to help the video lighting?
Great video. Do you have a link to that backdrop?
Share your own lighting tips for video calls below! And if you are a Zoom user, we have a separate video with tips, tricks, and best practices. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/zGNufsyJVwM
Thank you! It was what I was looking 😉
Thank you sir
Hi,
I can change the virtual background but my own picture comes dark while using zoom on mobile phone, why?
My lighting looks bad on camera when I use zoom or teams but much better when I use Webex.
Thank you Tom.
VG tips. Thnx.
doh I was looking for a solution to having a window behind me!
useful
Man thanks for making this. I have to do some virtual meetings for the first time and these were practical and required things that most people already have at home , no extra purchases.
Great content 👍🏽
My favorite part, is when he says, you don’t need to look like a tv studio. That’s all that matters.
These tips must be noted down
Very helpful – thanks!
you are awesome! Simple hack of throwing lamp light towards wall made a lot more difference in the video lighting.
how about attachable lighting devices to the laptop? Lume Cube or any others?
Could you share how you were able to get rid of the glare/reflection on your glasses when you sat in front of the window? Thanks.
That was really nicely laid out and insightful, thank you!
I pretty much refuse to do video calls unless I have a right light handy.
I guess I’m just vain.
Thank you because i really didn’t know light can bounce like a ball…
can’t let them see those "disgusting living quarters" 😂
Your last line was awesome
Last Line 👏
😊 Thanks.
That last line is whats matter the most
Thank you for your tips!
wow! desk lamp works to my set up! thanks!!!
You are awesome! Very professional and well done
Gia, you are bright and adorable. Thank you so much!
Thank you! Great tips! Stuff I can do even.
Additional tip for desk lamp: Put tin foil on the wall. Foil has way better reflection and it makes it much better.
That turning the study lamp towards the wall and bouncing off thing…it worked for me man! Thanks for this video !
Thank you so much! I was breaking the first rule. It was terrible as I was not showing up on camera in meetings. Showing each lighting mistake and solution was extremely helpful. Thanks again.
OH MY GOSH FINALLY A TIP THAT I LIKE. The shining of a lamp at the wall is REALLY what I’ve been looking for. No need to create a diffuser yet you still get this very flattering soft light.
AND i don’t have a blinding light source shining directly to my eyes! Thank you so much! 🥰❤❤
Great examples here. Been preaching the window light trick for years–but the best one is clearly the bounced light trick!