A couple of months ago I bought lights for my home UA-cam talking head set. Limited space so I bought a couple of clamp lights and hanging bulbs with Chinese paper lanterns for overhead shots. This video just gave me a TON of great ideas! Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks for this! It’s so easy to forget how to be innovative and just order more expensive crap. 🤔 All those ads for gear must really be working...🤔 I’m going to be a rebel and pick up a few more clamp lights! 😁 Perfect timing for this video.
Thank you Markus!!! I love that given all of your experience you circle back to practicality and simplicity. You are a true master!!! And a generous one!
I Agree 100%, been using clamp lights for decades, excellent for still photography. You can get different colored bulbs, gels, or even spray paint them for different effects. I avoid flash, except for night action shots- like metalhead concerts. Gotta get those headbangers hair nice and crisp. Great vid Markus- Rock on 🎸🎸🎸
Thanks Markus for the light show. I found some cheap LED lamps that I use and have to admit they do the job. Clamp lights are great too and I use them for general background lighting.
In the good old days (1980s) my work published in TV Guide mag, Fortune Magazine, and front page Newspapers. Even back then I was using clamp lights from hardware stores. Yes we both have interesting backgrounds :) from another farm boy from Canada. Recently I found some dirt cheap LED camera lamps with battery back up and portable and stackable that I really like.
And now, I figure out how to make a 2X4 post for the Home Depot lights! 😀 For working with green screen, I was using one of those corner post lamps, the kind that people use to read while in their favorite chair. Worked pretty good, but so bright I needed a diffuser of some type. Like you, I just moved the lamp back and it worked! Love the great tips, keep them coming!
Years ago I started a non-profit theatre company and used cheap lighting for all of our shows (the space we used didn’t have a lot of instruments) - it really is about being creative and overcoming challenges. Years later I started shooting b/w film using only two big flash lights as my light for portraits and still lifes. I look at those shots now and you’d never know they were shot with flashlights propped on books, etc.
Please keep posting these awesome videos! Your content is "Lit"! I've been learning so much because of your insightful techniques/teachings. Your channel will blow pretty soon! Thanks again 👍🏽
This what I love about your channel, keeping things simple and we don’t have to have the latest and most expensive cameras etc, totally inspiring best wishes to you and Cara ❤️
Wow! How freaky i didn't know clip lights existed and the other day I found an old gas lamp like a small concave satellite dish, thinking it could be used as a filming light! Now i am going to custom build it! Your the best Markus!!! 🤗
Ha Ha! Your videos get better every time I see them. Finally Spring is here and I can finally get out of my room and do some of my own videos. Thanks for sharing...
Thanks Markus, this is fantastic! Very helpful, as I've been experimenting with lighting in my latest nighttime street video (RGB lights, tube light, street lamps, even car headlights, etc.). Much love to you and Cara for being Awesome. ☮️
Thanks for your help, Markus! I took my clamp lights and put inside the already lit Umbrella lights. It gave me the perfect amount of soft light I needed. You are a blessing!
It's so funny that this particular video showed up in my feed today, because I've been testing out cheap lights at Home Depot, and I literally bought some of these today. I guess UA-cam is tracking my shopping, now. 😂 Love your channel, Markus! Keep up the great work!
When I started back in the day I used very same lights in my studio. They where all I could afford. I still have a couple of them lying around I still use time to time. I use to rigged them up in soft boxes so clients couldn't see them because... lets face it, they don't look very professional hanging everywhere. Fake it till you make it! Bottom line, they did the job for more than my first year in my studio until I could afford to buy strobes. Loved these many lighting setups to show how easy it really is. Again you proved you DON'T NEED to spend thousands to light a scene! Thx
Honestly Marty, I love your approach to cinematography. I've been in lighting for over a decade professionally and I fully agree with you about people thinking they need to spend thousands on lighting gear but are lacking the basic fundamentals of lighting. I always love experimenting with all sorts of lights and setups. Keep the great content coming!
Thanks for the inexpensive tips. I enjoyed the aluminium foil trick for the old "Bela Lugosi eyes". Unfortunately since I'm in the process of moving I got rid of my clamp lights but I may need to sneak out and get a couple new ones. Keep up the nice work.
Hi Markus. I am new to your videos, but really like them. The 2 things that impress me are the simplicity of the lighting and the quality of your sound. Great combinations!
haha I've used those for 10+ years because I was cheap. You can find more heavy-duty versions with ceramic bases that can handle more heat. Look at farm supply stores like Southern States or Tractor Supply Company. These are sold as "poultry warmers" ore "brooder warmers" or just "clamp light". I've used heavy spiral fluorescent bulbs, I believe I have some up to 300w daylight. Those bulbs are hard to get now. Getting a bunch together is a problem. I built a "stand" out of 2x4s and collected as many as 6-8 together. Also I like to zip-tie them to the frame for safety. The clamp mechanisms are flimsy.
I used them for years too. There seems to be two sizes, although the smaller diameter is harder to find. Never tried them with LEDs since they weren't available back then. Now, I'm going to have to find what I did with those lights and try LEDs in them. Thanks, Markus.
The aluminum foil trick is pretty neat, I never thought of using aluminum foil as a way to make a studio light snoot, but it is really practical for a lot of different types of light since aluminum foil is made to take heat and is reflective and light blocking. I use to keep some white foam core around to use as reflectors for light, because it was cheap, stiff, and could easily be stored behind any furniture that was against a wall. I still move the distance of studio lights to reduce the brightness, because the older studio lights I used did not have dimmers on them so I am use to it, although the dimmers on LCD studio lights really help in limited space situation or for making quick adjustments. I love watching people doing things with less equipment, or simple equipment, because it gives me ideas of how to do new things even with newer and more fancy equipment. Fancy equipment often doesn't do any more than make things a bit quicker and easier. Clamp lights really can be a great tool even if you have more expensive studio lights, particularly with the advent of LED bulbs of different color temperatures. You can add them as supplemental in fairly tight areas and when you have to work on location and need a bit of light someplace and don't want to or can't take a bunch of studio lights and lighting stands with you. You can even throw one or two in the trunk of your car just in case you need a bit of light unexpectedly for a shoot or an impromptu shoot.
nice and yes it is fully enough, when you know what you are doing. problem is, if you don't know what you are doing, the moste expensive lights won't help :D
I literally found you like a week ago. I've been binge-watching your videos ever since!! Great work on the reviews! I love that you're not all about the latest and greatest but on the practical side when it comes to gears! I've only recently upgraded to a 5d mk2 from my 10 yr old canon 50D, loving my "new" camera! A bit heavy though so I'm thinking of getting a canon m100 to be able to adapt my lenses or a Panasonic gm1. great videos again!
On my Bucket List: meeting Markus and Cara I loved this!!!!!!! Is it hard to build something you can clamp them on to?? I am going to try to make this work! And yeah, gels. I'm colorblind so THAT should be interesting. You and Cara are wonderful people for sharing your love and knowledge!
Great suggestion that lighting doesn’t have to be expensive! I will add that if you’re using led bulbs, don’t use anything under a CRI of 93 or so, or your skin tones will suffer. You can’t go wrong with standard tungsten bulbs for the best color unless you need to reduce the heat.
Thanks for the good information. I use whatever I have. My fluorescent lights in my shop make to much glare so I try to video at an angle away from them. I also use my 500-Watt Halogen shop light which is very hot and to bright. I use table lamps and flash lights. LOL The clamp lights seem to be more reasonable to use.
Ich kommetiere bewusst in deutsch. Du hast ja deutsche Wurzeln. Ganz toller Kanal den ich erst vor einigen Wochen hier entdeckt habe. Super Tipps sehr gut erklärt. Thank you! Danke! Grüße von der Nordseeküste.
Ach, Markus! Ich könnte Deine Videos stundenlang ansehen und ich würde immer noch etwas neues finden, was ich in meinen Videos umsetzen kann. Vielen Dank!
This is what I use for all my productions. The tin foil snoot was inspiring ... never thought of that. Will definitely be using that one. Also I'm having a little trouble w/ my glasses. I have thick ones and I seem to get shadows on the eyes (not reflections but shadows). Maybe lights toward the side, ~45 degrees or so instead of straight on?
I shot a bunch of outdoor night scenes using those palm size LED closet lights. I even held one in my hand while shooting with the other for a fight scene in North Beach. That was a lively hour. Watch out for LED Cobb lights. They emit rays that can damage your retinas. Blindness.
man this channel is highly underrated!!! make things so practical!
6 am Saturday, watch a MarkusPix video and inspired for the day! Helpful and practical!
A couple of months ago I bought lights for my home UA-cam talking head set. Limited space so I bought a couple of clamp lights and hanging bulbs with Chinese paper lanterns for overhead shots. This video just gave me a TON of great ideas! Thank you so much for sharing!
So awesome, making this stuff so its within reach of anyone
"You light up my life" - Debby Boone.
Cool!
Thanks for this! It’s so easy to forget how to be innovative and just order more expensive crap.
🤔 All those ads for gear must really be working...🤔
I’m going to be a rebel and pick up a few more clamp lights! 😁 Perfect timing for this video.
Thank you Markus!!! I love that given all of your experience you circle back to practicality and simplicity. You are a true master!!! And a generous one!
Always great, Markus and this is no exception. Thank you!
1,500.00 slider showing off the $7.00 clamp light. Yes!!! This is why I'm a subscriber. Markus keep up the good work man.
Every Saturday I’m loving this videos. Thanks Markus.
Glad you like them!
Lol... next week the clamp light giveaway... Seriously though, great quick HOW TO DO IT video! Thanks for sharing!
I Agree 100%, been using clamp lights for decades, excellent for still photography. You can get different colored bulbs, gels, or even spray paint them for different effects. I avoid flash, except for night action shots- like metalhead concerts. Gotta get those headbangers hair nice and crisp.
Great vid Markus- Rock on 🎸🎸🎸
I didn't know that foil trick. Everytime I watch your videos, I learn new something other than most of the stereotype UA-camrs. Thanks Marcus...
Thanks Markus for the light show. I found some cheap LED lamps that I use and have to admit they do the job. Clamp lights are great too and I use them for general background lighting.
In the good old days (1980s) my work published in TV Guide mag, Fortune Magazine, and front page Newspapers. Even back then I was using clamp lights from hardware stores. Yes we both have interesting backgrounds :) from another farm boy from Canada. Recently I found some dirt cheap LED camera lamps with battery back up and portable and stackable that I really like.
Thanks!!👍And wow...you are amazing video creator.
I appreciate how you don't conform to the mindless mass way of (not thinking). I enjoy your channel immensely.
Glad you enjoy it!
Great tips Marcus!
And now, I figure out how to make a 2X4 post for the Home Depot lights! 😀
For working with green screen, I was using one of those corner post lamps, the kind that people use to read while in their favorite chair. Worked pretty good, but so bright I needed a diffuser of some type. Like you, I just moved the lamp back and it worked!
Love the great tips, keep them coming!
Years ago I started a non-profit theatre company and used cheap lighting for all of our shows (the space we used didn’t have a lot of instruments) - it really is about being creative and overcoming challenges. Years later I started shooting b/w film using only two big flash lights as my light for portraits and still lifes. I look at those shots now and you’d never know they were shot with flashlights propped on books, etc.
LOVE THIS, and your acting is excellent! Thanks for the GREAT IDEAS!
Everytime I click and watch your videos I am completely inspired!!! Always reawakens my side projects and getse thinking about new ones.
Please keep posting these awesome videos! Your content is "Lit"! I've been learning so much because of your insightful techniques/teachings. Your channel will blow pretty soon! Thanks again 👍🏽
I’ve learned more about alternative uses of foil thanks to your channel. Appreciate it.
This what I love about your channel, keeping things simple and we don’t have to have the latest and most expensive cameras etc, totally inspiring best wishes to you and Cara ❤️
Wow! How freaky i didn't know clip lights existed and the other day I found an old gas lamp like a small concave satellite dish, thinking it could be used as a filming light! Now i am going to custom build it! Your the best Markus!!! 🤗
Ha Ha! Your videos get better every time I see them. Finally Spring is here and I can finally get out of my room and do some of my own videos. Thanks for sharing...
Another great video from MarkusPix! I can’t wait to see more content!
Ah that brings me back to my early days of glamour photography! My first set ups were exactly from home depot. Such good times!
Thanks Markus, this is fantastic! Very helpful, as I've been experimenting with lighting in my latest nighttime street video (RGB lights, tube light, street lamps, even car headlights, etc.). Much love to you and Cara for being Awesome. ☮️
Thanks for your help, Markus! I took my clamp lights and put inside the already lit Umbrella lights. It gave me the perfect amount of soft light I needed. You are a blessing!
@Markuspix Thanks again for the help! Be blessed today!
It's so funny that this particular video showed up in my feed today, because I've been testing out cheap lights at Home Depot, and I literally bought some of these today. I guess UA-cam is tracking my shopping, now. 😂 Love your channel, Markus! Keep up the great work!
When I started back in the day I used very same lights in my studio. They where all I could afford. I still have a couple of them lying around I still use time to time. I use to rigged them up in soft boxes so clients couldn't see them because... lets face it, they don't look very professional hanging everywhere. Fake it till you make it! Bottom line, they did the job for more than my first year in my studio until I could afford to buy strobes. Loved these many lighting setups to show how easy it really is. Again you proved you DON'T NEED to spend thousands to light a scene! Thx
wow this is super! Love the black jacket Markus 🔥. Thank you for this light 💡 secrets, would love to try it 🎥
Honestly Marty, I love your approach to cinematography. I've been in lighting for over a decade professionally and I fully agree with you about people thinking they need to spend thousands on lighting gear but are lacking the basic fundamentals of lighting. I always love experimenting with all sorts of lights and setups. Keep the great content coming!
Thanks Rob. Yes, when soldiers run out of bullets they better know how to be resourceful with sticks and stones 😉
Thanks for the inexpensive tips. I enjoyed the aluminium foil trick for the old "Bela Lugosi eyes". Unfortunately since I'm in the process of moving I got rid of my clamp lights but I may need to sneak out and get a couple new ones. Keep up the nice work.
A light bulb moment. Great video as ever. Thanks!
Home Depot or Lowes is our new friend in light shaping. :) Thanks for the post. Very illuminating.
Love your common sense approach. Thank your Markus.
Thank you so very much Markus!!
OMG! A Markus 4K video! Thanks for your videos and inspiration. 🙂
Haha not actually. All my stuff is shot 1080p but lately some are uploaded 4K so they dont lose quality when UA-cam re-renders it
As always, you are such an inspiration Markus!
Hi Markus. I am new to your videos, but really like them. The 2 things that impress me are the simplicity of the lighting and the quality of your sound. Great combinations!
Love them lights, Your the man Markus Pix.....Love your Vlogs Dude...
Wow! You are the McGuyver of inexpensive photo and video techniques. Another great video. Thanks for sharing this with us.
My pleasure!
as always, fruitful content. Thanks.
Dude, I love your videos. I'm so glad I found this Channel!!!
Glad you enjoy it!
haha I've used those for 10+ years because I was cheap. You can find more heavy-duty versions with ceramic bases that can handle more heat. Look at farm supply stores like Southern States or Tractor Supply Company. These are sold as "poultry warmers" ore "brooder warmers" or just "clamp light". I've used heavy spiral fluorescent bulbs, I believe I have some up to 300w daylight. Those bulbs are hard to get now. Getting a bunch together is a problem. I built a "stand" out of 2x4s and collected as many as 6-8 together. Also I like to zip-tie them to the frame for safety. The clamp mechanisms are flimsy.
I am building one with a chargeable & removable magnetic high lumen led lamp!
@@GlowUrbanX What is the LED lamp?
You are amazing SIR. :) So glad I found you. Have a great day.
Thanks for sharing family!!!! Too cool I love it!!!! Cheers n God bless
Thanks for jargon-free tips & suggestions that don't require single-hobby purchases! I can use clamp lights for a multitude of tasks!
Best photog. channel on youtube, the only thing amazing is why there aren't 20 million views
Markus! the master of common sense. great! keep going!
Markus, thank YoU for sharing the wisdom!
I used them for years too. There seems to be two sizes, although the smaller diameter is harder to find. Never tried them with LEDs since they weren't available back then. Now, I'm going to have to find what I did with those lights and try LEDs in them. Thanks, Markus.
The aluminum foil trick is pretty neat, I never thought of using aluminum foil as a way to make a studio light snoot, but it is really practical for a lot of different types of light since aluminum foil is made to take heat and is reflective and light blocking. I use to keep some white foam core around to use as reflectors for light, because it was cheap, stiff, and could easily be stored behind any furniture that was against a wall. I still move the distance of studio lights to reduce the brightness, because the older studio lights I used did not have dimmers on them so I am use to it, although the dimmers on LCD studio lights really help in limited space situation or for making quick adjustments. I love watching people doing things with less equipment, or simple equipment, because it gives me ideas of how to do new things even with newer and more fancy equipment. Fancy equipment often doesn't do any more than make things a bit quicker and easier. Clamp lights really can be a great tool even if you have more expensive studio lights, particularly with the advent of LED bulbs of different color temperatures. You can add them as supplemental in fairly tight areas and when you have to work on location and need a bit of light someplace and don't want to or can't take a bunch of studio lights and lighting stands with you. You can even throw one or two in the trunk of your car just in case you need a bit of light unexpectedly for a shoot or an impromptu shoot.
Great lighting👍
Thanks so much for sharing budget setups. I’ve already used some of your suggestions.
Another satisfying Saturday morning episode :D Also, you're about as nutty as this skwurl right here haha.
your videos are so great 😀, makes me feel like i can make something great too, keep up the videos I’m learning a lot
You can do it!
Love your work man! Thanks for the videos .
Thank you Marcus, you always have great tips.
nice and yes it is fully enough, when you know what you are doing. problem is, if you don't know what you are doing, the moste expensive lights won't help :D
True! 👍🏾
Half of my lighting kit are clamp lights. They are so handy to have and you really can create good looking shots with them!
Great stuff! :) Thanks for making this video!
I bought a clamp lights the other day at garage sale for $1. each. Thanks for the tips.
Thanks Markus, I’ll be famous before I know it thanks to you! 🤪
Super toll! Very inspiring!
I literally found you like a week ago. I've been binge-watching your videos ever since!! Great work on the reviews! I love that you're not all about the latest and greatest but on the practical side when it comes to gears! I've only recently upgraded to a 5d mk2 from my 10 yr old canon 50D, loving my "new" camera! A bit heavy though so I'm thinking of getting a canon m100 to be able to adapt my lenses or a Panasonic gm1. great videos again!
Forget the M100- get the newer M200- much improved autofocus and everything else
On my Bucket List: meeting Markus and Cara
I loved this!!!!!!! Is it hard to build something you can clamp them on to??
I am going to try to make this work! And yeah, gels. I'm colorblind so THAT should be interesting.
You and Cara are wonderful people for sharing your love and knowledge!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
very cool. I'm in.
brilliant as always!
This was awesome
This was...enlightening
Man you are the Best 👏✊🙏
Smart, informative. Thx man 👍🇨🇦🔥
You’ve lit a spark in my pocket. Off the buy some tomorrow.
Great suggestion that lighting doesn’t have to be expensive! I will add that if you’re using led bulbs, don’t use anything under a CRI of 93 or so, or your skin tones will suffer. You can’t go wrong with standard tungsten bulbs for the best color unless you need to reduce the heat.
Thanks for the good information. I use whatever I have. My fluorescent lights in my shop make to much glare so I
try to video at an angle away from them. I also use my 500-Watt Halogen shop light which is very hot and to bright. I use table lamps and flash lights. LOL The clamp lights seem to be more reasonable to use.
❤❤❤
Keep safe gorgeous couple!
Thanks for all the great videos! I am wondering if you would talk about printing your photos sometime. And what or who you use to print them.
Ich kommetiere bewusst in deutsch. Du hast ja deutsche Wurzeln. Ganz toller Kanal den ich erst vor einigen Wochen
hier entdeckt habe. Super Tipps sehr gut erklärt. Thank you! Danke! Grüße von der Nordseeküste.
a master class for free 💪😤
Ach, Markus! Ich könnte Deine Videos stundenlang ansehen und ich würde immer noch etwas neues finden, was ich in meinen Videos umsetzen kann. Vielen Dank!
Love this video
Thanks for the lighting tips again -
Markus RULES!!!
That was inspiring! Any ideas for affordable appleboxes?
This is what I use for all my productions. The tin foil snoot was inspiring ... never thought of that. Will definitely be using that one. Also I'm having a little trouble w/ my glasses. I have thick ones and I seem to get shadows on the eyes (not reflections but shadows). Maybe lights toward the side, ~45 degrees or so instead of straight on?
Soften the light to lessen shadows
@@MarkusPix Thanks, I'll give that a try.
Epic jacket. 😉
It’s almost like you have been to some of my shoots. I have used them for years. Now that LED bulbs exist... better than ever.
u are very creative, Sir.
so often i feel like i step back into a 90s movie :D waiting for mystic knights, buffy or relic hunter to enter the screen :D
great vid Markus
I shot a bunch of outdoor night scenes using those palm size LED closet lights. I even held one in my hand while shooting with the other for a fight scene in North Beach. That was a lively hour. Watch out for LED Cobb lights. They emit rays that can damage your retinas. Blindness.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Your welcome x3
Awesome 😎
Thanks for a intresting video am about to make a new film and studio room so I thanks you for tha clamp light idea. Be safe and skilful. Pinge
Thank You so Much.
Great info!!! 👍