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A few thoughts. 1. Overall it looks nice. 2. the lighting is a little flat. One way to fix that- try to get your key lights further off to the side. Then bump one side down to about 40-60% of the other, so that you have a key light on one side and use the second as a fill light..

This is what I’m working with. It’s tough to move the key lights any further to the side. I’m also in a box room, where there’s no sensible place to put a light behind me for a 3-point system I’ll try and reduce the full light to see if I can add some depth to my face

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I’m also contending with the small box window for natural light. I don’t want to shut the blind everytime I’m on a call, and I don’t want to reconfigure the settings depending on the time of day, so I’m trying to land on a ‘good enough’ with auto settings and tweaks where I can

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Also, when bright out, if there is any way to block that small window (even with a piece of cardboard you put up there when doing video), it will really help you to control the lighting. Lighting in tight/non-dedicated spaces is definitely tricky.

I have a blackout smart blind, I just enjoy having natural light coming in throughout the day. It’s worth noting this will mostly be for calls / demoes, rather than recorded content (i’d close it for that )

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This is definitely a workable setup. I’d use the lower (portrait oriented) key light as your fill (drop it to 30-40% brightness). The other light looks like you might be able to bump it out just a little, but it already has better horizontal separation if you can’t.

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@f15y.com

Leave that one at the current brightness or even dial it up a little, and drop your camera exposure to compensate. That’ll help you get more contrast across your face.

Interesting. I thought the left light was better as the key, because: a) it’s next to the camera B) it’s the same direction of light as the window, so that will generally be the lighter side