Lighting Your YouTube Videos - 5 Different Styles In Less Than 10 Minutes

[@Senpai]

Which lighting style do you use right now? Do you plan on trying any of these?

[@-manny-]

I use no lights😢

[@hahahaha-nm6yu]

I love them all! Do you have any tips and tricks how to light up by using only home lamps? You know, these orange ones, that Grandmas have...

[@Suntika]

@@hahahaha-nm6yu same rules apply. It's all about placement. Trial and error. Spend an hour having fun and trying new things. If you're using actual grandma lamps (incandescent light bulbs), and you're using many of these, expect the energy bill to be a little higher at the end of the month 😄. If the look is too yellow for you, you can experiment with the "temperature" in your post processing... Whatever software you use. Essentially making the entire video more blue to compensate for the very warm colored lights.

[@Valkrill]

What about a greenscreen background setup 🤔

[@getintermc]

Classic atm, but I'm going to move my ring light (which was my key) to the side and try it out as an edge. Great tips!

[@pixelpunchyt]

Nobody: Mexico in American movies: 0:00

[@BabyL3mur]

Lmaooooo

[@patrikmedia]

reminds me of the Breaking Bad desert scenes.

[@aqwe-sj1lz]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😅😅😅😄😆😅

[@Tucanazo69]

LMAO

[@MayankJairaj]

0:01 for mobile users

[@Suntika]

Good video. Gets the facts out quickly without boring everyone with steps we can easily figure out on our own.

[@Dominik-K]

Yeah I love that nowadays the important facts are shown petty quickly and related topics are discussed later on

[@adityakrishnamalhotra1]

Bruh you have so many views and subs with just 9 vids

[@Turner371]

I always love it when I see people teaching other stuff like this. I have a degree in media production, so editing, photography, video and lighting. Lighting isn't always easy to set up, it takes time to get it right, but it's well worth the effort

[@James-fv8vs]

2:12 straight up looks like a mugshot on the right lol

[@lixxtning]

this impressed me. especially when you showed your stream light setup and how different it is without the lights.

[@i2Shea]

Not that much of a difference

[@JoelPlay]

@@i2Shea It really is actually a massive difference.

[@samuelronan3488]

I've said this in a different video before as well. I have no intention or burning desire to stream, but this is literally the most informative video on the subject of lighting that I could have hoped for and I am in awe at how simple such a complex beast can be made when explained by someone with expertise!

[@Maricarrrr]

THANK YOU. We’re setting up my boyfriend’s gaming studio this week, and lighting plays such a huge part in it-but we’re both lighting noobs. Saving this!

[@JakyIsJakey]

Tried all of these lightning techniques and I'm still ugly :(

[@metalphobos3632]

You're beautiful on the inside...... Er something.

[@mehdim.a7089]

You're beautiful ❤

[@GerardoJMendozaManuel89]

One can be attractive even if one´s not that handsome. It comes down to more than just physical appearance. ;)

[@ikku4321]

Well sit further away from the camera then. Jokes aside it actually helps, narrower lens makes your face more slim and natural. The smaller the number the bigger the nose, so typical 35mm makes you look like a Troll. I would use for portraits lenses starting from 70mm. Smaller lenses are better for full figures so just sit further away if you have a typical webcam. If that also doesn't help then try washing your hair.

[@Ravy_Nevermore]

did you try the makeup contouring tho?

[@SavageSenzu]

Finally! nobody ever shows videos like these on HOW to get the lighting they use or different examples and how to set them up, could you do one on camera angles as well?

[@capetrader6666]

Lots of people show these videos, but you can't find it because you're looking for streaming, and not videography or filmmaking.

[@BrunaClaas]

Love this breakdown! The lights in the back make all the difference!

[@mikethehobbyist]

I find the colored lighting style in general more intriguing will definitely give it a go

[@morcicak007]

What interests me is whether certain setups hurt your eyes more as a streamer. I can't imagine streaming for several hours and having a big ring light right in front of you

[@pikaprisma7290]

Oh yeah it sucks, but I've learner to compensate with video filters as to not blind my eyes with a giant ring light

[@ALLSTARDECOURO2]

I use and i have no problem, you just need to lower the brightness to a comfortable level

[@Skye_Writer]

I've always wondered about that too...

[@johnsnow2022]

I've watched a TON of lighting videos but this one takes the cake by far! I learned a lot and now it's time for action.. Thank you!

[@TheNerd]

What i liked the best is, that around a year ago Haris Heller switch from useless generall bla bla videos to actual (a bit mainstream) education and the channel is growing more and more in the educational direction. Thumbs up for that.

[@RealWizardry]

Awesome video. Thanks for the tips. The multi-colours looks interesting. I use green screen for pretty much everything so covering some interesting new lighting for green screening might be really useful too.

[@the_Supernova]

I'm suprised how good the lighting is for my PORTABLE ring light. Literally able to clip on my phone

[@MiloKolb]

Aputure light storm 300d is even better

[@InfiniteTony]

Do u mind linking the page where u bought it from? Really wanna see it. 😊

[@Metalfear4]

Great video! I love the last one with the colours. I use some RGB flood lights that light my background really nicely but don't shine on my face like yours. What a great idea!

[@JustGavinBennett]

Instead of a lighting upgrade I upgraded from an f3.5 to an f1.8 lens this week. Made a huge difference and is now picking up all the lighting in my room

[@steveium]

A faster lens makes a huge difference - looks so much better without needing more light

[@ItsBishop69]

Offset key light and a back edge light is exactly how I setup my lights for my stream. I think it's by far the best look. Great video!

[@arigm86]

Do you set them both to 100% brightness or are they different brightness?

[@ItsBishop69]

@@arigm86 My key light is about 30% at 3400k and my back edge light is set to 10% at 3200k.

[@SudoYETI]

I love the color edge lights. You could color coordinate with your logo/brand colors or change them depending on mood, etc. That with the key light lets you easily see your face but adds some playful edge lighting to the scene.

[@Proggish]

Working with two desklights, trying to get a light setup, seeing the positions in pictures helped me make a couple small changes and now I dig the lighting better, thanks man! Always learing new things when I come to your channel!

[@Shelma32Reactions]

This video is so incredibly informative and super easy to understand. I struggle with understanding some tutorials in trying to learn how to light things in a better way but this is very easy for me to understand.

[@lexecomplexe4083]

The last one is actually the first one I went for without any prior knowledge. Cool lol

[@amazingdamy5012]

I think out of a lot of lighting videos i have seen this actually woke up my creativity as i would like to go minimal as possible because getting all the necessary light accessory over here in Nigeria might be costly, the part where i liked the most was where you combined the red and blue lights. Liked and Subscribed.

[@RedScapes]

Just setup lighting for my streams as part of my new year re-do. Amazing how much it changes the look of everything, even with a simple ring light

[@jaimetan]

I love my Elgato key light! I only have one and use it to the side of the camera without a fill or hair light and I like the way it looks. Sometimes the shadow on the other side bothers me a bit, so I might get a smaller hair/ edge light at some point - like your set-up. Thanks for this!

[@cobracommander2007]

Great way to explain and show the light differences that people might want or avoid

[@ArunMPEdison]

Enjoyed watching the dialogues and thanks for all the clean links. Lot of new things learned.

[@itsbtunes]

I have a small room and I don't really have enough space to work with. So what I did is I put a ring light off center to lit my face and give that cinematic look but I also bought rgb bulbs and I just put them as my main room lights (right behind me) and while recording or streaming I just give them a nice colour to fill up the space behind me.

[@EchoKraft]

I like the last one with the colored lights on you. That looks really cool.

[@King716]

I currently use a ring light around my camera with no key light but i have some rgb lights i put in the background to light up and seperate me from the background a bit. It's not all that great but it does the job for now. I plan on getting a el gato key light in the future and doing the 4th type of lighting you showed with the edge lighting and maybe rearranging my led lamps to attempt that last style to blast some color. Also looking to mess around with a green screen setup every once in a while. Great video, thank you for putting out so much quality content. Literally can't thank you enough.

[@aqwe-sj1lz]

The light in front of the camera I like it the most and the easiest to setup it. That`s why I choose the first light style in this video.

[@MillCityQ]

I litterally bought two keylight airs yesterday and then this video drops. Such good timing

[@SunnyGirl92]

From few years I am obsessed with rgb lights. Started in 2018 with small ones underneath my desk, last year bought those two popular garden lights to put one behind me and one in front. Some may say that this was too much colour, but I loved it. Now I bought a ring light so I am making changes to my lightning on camera again :) It's worth to try different stuff to see what you like. Once a year make an investment and try it out :) Obviously my favourite setup was the last one from your video :D

[@OlleyThorpe]

Excited for this one. My ring light is way to bright* haha

[@hedgehogloverone]

Do you mean its too bright or am i missing something?

[@deathbunny8322]

Angle it away from your face slightly, helps a lot

[@OlleyThorpe]

@@hedgehogloverone ahahah lol just checked yeah a typo!

[@OlleyThorpe]

@@deathbunny8322 Yeah Ive done a few things, I wear glasses without they its not too bad! and I can fix it in post, but when I have glasses on it just looks a bit annoying, I have got a different smaller light since and am testing different things in videos, I think you can get a diffuser for the ring lights too so I may try that also.

[@i2Shea]

Pillow case or something over your light does wonders. Don't kill your eyes!

[@robintsw]

This video helped greatly! Will note them all when I need em! Thanks,Harris!

[@ImaDrum]

I don't have any lights or lamps or anything like that in my office space. However, I do have 3 monitors, and I use my left and right (side) monitors for my lighting instead. Basically I just open up notepad on each of these monitors when I'm streaming, or just one, and that creates my lighting at no extra cost lol. It works, may not be the best, but it works.

[@Mr_NastyNate1]

ambient gold is definitely your best sound, i use it all the time on my stream to fill any unwanted pauses in my stream

[@todaywithrhea917]

Can't get enough of your content Harris. Always great and straight to the point, with a dash of that Harris humor. Keep it coming man.

[@GHNerland]

I like the High Key setup with the whole dark/light aspect. I, who takes astrology a bit seriously, am a Pisces who loves the dark/light concept.

[@PokeyKen]

I like the lighting aspect of how quality can change

[@score_more]

Lol now imagine if the camera was in focus

[@ChristianJog]

Cam was in focus. Harris was not ;-) A problem often happens when someone uses a narrow DoF and moves around. We all have been there :-)

[@Volati20]

Could also be because he's using his wider aperture, which isn't always the sharpest settings for a lens.

[@score_more]

@@Volati20 he had it on manual focus and it’s hard to see through the camera viewfinder to adjust it perfectly. It happens all the time

[@sanketss84]

I think the camera is a blackmagic with manual focus. the core message on how to light was conveyed however. :)

[@andrewjoseph1363]

The final one was new to me and looks really good

[@mgcgamingbytbasil]

love the key kicker🔥🔥🔥 , gonna try it for myself

[@lisabeck5582]

The first time I learned about lighting was while attending the Defense Information School for a basic broadcasting course. We learned about offsetting and key lights and side lights and rear lights and edge lights and fill lights, and ... did I miss any? .... but I feel as if I learned a ton more in this to-the-point nine-minute video. Your quick explanation of key lights was especially well done, but kudos also to the bit about the use of contrasting gels. Gels would have illustrated the effect better, but I love the innovation you applied to approximate the effect. Bravo Zulu, Mate!

[@CameraTim]

The classic key and backlight setup. That’s my go-to for sure. If you’re going to use colors though, definitely stick with color gels if you care about color accuracy, as an RGB light physically removes light information by switching to a color. This is evident especially in the red beam on the left where you see the center of it showing bright yellow with the red fringe on the outside. Since the camera isn’t receiving accurate light information, it can’t render the color accurately. However, when shooting a white light through a color gel, you’re getting a full light spectrum that’s just being shifted, so a camera reads that light information much more accurately.

[@gocchinmaki]

Just the right content i am looking for. Been using two ring lights for a while using Logitech C270, been harding a hard time adjusting to the one i like.

[@CassiniMediaProductions]

I love your content, your videos helped me so much in getting started with my Twitch and KZbin. I will always be the thankful to you for providing these videos to help us out.

[@CMDRMitchcraft]

I just made the jump to a mirrorless DSLR (this week) and new lights were the next purchase I made - a ring light for the camera, and two LED RGB flood lights. I have them currently set up in my background, but seeing #5 makes me REALLY want to play around with a few things.

[@hedgehogenglish]

Thank you! The final shot looks really great

[@wylatron]

Yup, just switched to using a green screen behind my DJ stream, and thus changing my lighting. Useful stuff to consider, thanks for the vid

[@MichealColhoun]

Great video as always Harris. I came to this channel 6 months ago, maybe less, with a little knowledge of streaming on camera and now 6 months later I realise how little I knew. Big fan of Elgato products thanks to you and my first mirrorless camera was prompted by some awesome community support on your discord server. Well done on building an awesome community and channel.

[@fiskefinancial]

This was super helpful, never even gave my lighting a second thought until now. And thank you for the free music! You're the king!

[@15_problems]

perfect i have been deciding what lighting to use for my stream.

[@wolvros6040]

Man I didn’t realise how simple all this would be so sick!

[@valthewiz97]

I really loved the 2nd type of light (One from the front and one from the side) It's simple, looks good and it's cheap sooo I guess when I can invest in lights I would go for that

[@hawteytv703]

Thanks a bunch. You have helped me tons. Not only to learn what to do effectively. But to not waste money. I appreciate your hard work.

[@TheRevHouse]

Love the light gels. I did realize I need to slightly adjust my camera location

[@Alienizer]

Really love your videos man! Keep it up.

[@cleio81]

Very cool ideas! I will probably use Hue Lights to mimic the colored lights in the background like the last frame. I've learned that you can use a simple tissue to help diffuse the hues effectively and safely because they are LEDs. Cant wait to try the colors!

[@FelixChamber]

Very helpful. Now I see that I should get a second light to work as an edge light, which is the best look imo.

[@DoctorMIM]

Great video my dude, trawled through a lot of others that had too much fluff but this was so informative in a fraction of the time 👍

[@casadekaos9697]

I actually kinda liked that last one. I'm sure there are probably hundreds of other ways to do lighting. But the basics are very helpful and could allow for people to explore their lighting more.

[@Evvrett]

Was excited to see the ideas and whatnot, worried because I use RBG Floodlights that aren’t easy to position. Turns out I literally have them in the #3 orientation already! Just gotta lower the brightness on my side light, and move my camera a little more straight on. Excited to see how it looks!

[@Gannjo93]

Dig the color lighting with the beams. But all of them are so simple yet give such different results

[@BobbyScharmann]

i think i will play with the key light on the side or behind as a spotlight. helpful video, thanks!

[@PhuzzyBond]

Thank you, very insightful.

[@f.l.infinite8444]

I''ve currently got a lighting setup going that I'm pretty happy about. I have my Elgato Key Light Air pointed at the wall in front of me so that I get this really soft light that lights up my whole face (and even my hair). I also have these $60 light panels on the wall to my right, and they act as both a practical light and an edge light due to their distance from me. EDIT: I'm in a new room, and I have repositioned the lights I've already mentioned, and now it's more like #4.

[@rdatomica2230]

dude... i've been looking for a video like this for ages! One that actually makes sense. I'm now using my ring light off to the side, didn't realise how much of a difference something as simple moving a light 40° to the right could make, only using a small one from amazon which i picked up for about £15 and a razor kiyo (don't hate xD), no i'm honestly really happy with the way it looks thanks to you! :D

[@AdrianReddix]

I think I'm going to try a couple of these techniques in my video. Thanks for the ideas.

[@damico59]

REALLY helpful video! I'm new to this and had not thought of anything other than the 45 degree or ring light setup. I love the fill light from the side-back. The color gels are also pretty cool. Thanks!

[@ILYoT]

Absolutely fantastic video! I started my YT gaming channel and the start is great and all thanks to your advices! Keep helping the people like you do!

[@wagonet]

very helpful for new streamers. great video, i've learned a lot from your vids harris.

[@mo_venegas]

This helped me a lot. I love the look and feel of shadows, but I didn't know how to set up lighting to use those shadows correctly, and I ended up just losing detail. Now I have a better idea of lighting setups I want to try and experiment with.

[@backlaceanarchy]

I want to try the light gels like you suggested. I’m starting my KZbin and Twitch channel this year and I’m really excited

[@gluble2199]

When are you going to start??

[@backlaceanarchy]

@@gluble2199 before this year is over 😊

[@baharehmasaeli5252]

Hi thanks for making this extraordinary video by the way I don't use none of these lights I used to use some light that is around me but after watching your video I found that if I have professional light my videos looks better .

[@Slothability]

Great video. I naturally progressed from the first style of lighting to the fifth recently and you can do it with two cheap, app controlled smartbulbs.

[@ChrisPalmer84]

I personally use your lighting and I had no idea I was even doing it right lol. I just remember you saying that you added a light behind you to separate yourself from the background. Who knew haha

[@MacGhriogair]

I use something very similar to number 3, with the addition of a coloured light in the background (it changes colour). Right now, I don't have much in my background to make it look interesting and I don't have a green screen. That being said, might give 5 a try since I have the lights for that type of setup. I've also tried, 3 with a coloured hair light. One thing to note is that I wear a hat when I stream, so I try to position my lights in such a way that the beak of my hat doesn't create a big shadow.

[@thekey_]

Really helpful. The 4th setup was the best in my opinion 👌

[@nikoboivin]

Harris Heller: the Frank Doorhof of streaming. Really nice setups and reminded me so much of my time in photo studios. very well explained in a simple fashion!

[@BCBrownBooks]

Another great video. Simple and to the point. I enjoyed the key kicker lights idea. Right now I just use a ring light and key light in front at angles, but thinking of trying the key kicker lights.

[@Kaiu24]

Super informative, i tend to use number 4 or something similar in my youtube videos.

[@7Ransom]

Love this video. I’ve been waiting for something like this from you for a while now!

[@TheMapleTable]

Timely, I have been trying to figure out how to step up my lighting game and this gives me a few thimgs to try. Also good to know some. Shadow is ok.

[@daedulsworkshop]

Lots of shadow is ok too. Very dramatic. Especially if the camera is recording at a higher frame rate, 30 to 60 fps. Or if you utilize a filter for grey scale.

[@UknowOSRS]

These videos are the best. Thanks for all the information Alpha!

[@graciaman]

Excited to experiment with these, great vid!

[@canadoughfinance5331]

I actually used the lighting set up at 4:20 for my first video! Have been really enjoying your tips

[@Altek2k]

Just got 2 of the elgato keylights for chrismas, great video. Thanks!

[@ustazHamza]

Good one but I was looking for a video where I can see how the lighting has an effect at least half of your chest in the frame , a bit zoomed out I mean , this setup seems perfect for showing faces , but I learnt a lot thanks

[@gavinsergent]

i just picked up some neewer 660’s ur timing is impeccable

[@steveium]

I’ve been using lighting #4 for streaming since I saw you using it in yours. I really like the effect.

[@GrendelPrime79]

Good content. I like that you added the overhead layouts to the video.

[@CataclysmiCCalyx]

:06 in im intrigued - good idea with those lighting changings

[@brandonthemanifestor]

Crazy informative and exactly what I needed. Thanks for the amazing content!

[@Dan-pm3nx]

Harris mate, you are a champion - thank you for your content

[@chrissy93x]

This guy has awesome videos thanks for helping me fix my channel up with correct lighting and tips / advice

[@jangojester]

I use a combination of options 3 and 4, but I don't have elgato brand lighting. I use a raleno camera panel that I mounted on a mic boom, and a 10 inch ring light. They weren't expensive at all and they make me stand out really well from my background, but I dig that last option and will prolly look into an alternative for trying it out. Thanks Harris for the great videos you've put out, they've been a great help to my channel... now if only I can get a streaming pc to add to the set up. I'd be set, for now 🤣

[@TrinityLinkq]

Actually going to try your own lighting technique thanks dude 👌