Choosing the Best Ring Lights for YouTube Videos
Shooting good video content requires more than an awesome script and a video camera. Lighting sets the mood and tone of your video and literally helps to make you look good. More importantly, good lighting makes you stand out as a professional video creator and an expert in your niche. Good lighting will help you attract larger audiences and more buyers for your products and services. What is a ring light? As the name suggests, a ring light is a light in the shape of a ring. The light source is usually either a circular fluorescent tube or hundreds of surface-mounted LEDs. The light source, either fluorescent tube or LEDs, sits in a circular housing. At one side of this circle, or ring, there is a control box/panel and mounting point. You can put the light on top of a stand using the mounting point. The panel will house the on/off switch and other pieces of electronics, such as dimmer controls. Circular lights with fluorescent tubes use electrical power directly from an electrical out