Lighting is your most important investment in becoming a camgirl. Without proper lighting you can really interfear with how much money you could make from your chatters. Another thing to consider putting in some money into would be a good computer system and also a webcam or video camera, but your most important of all would be a good lighting set up. I am pretty annoyed with camgirls who email me asking how they can make more money and they are working in the dark or have a poor light set up. How do you expect to make money when your chatters can not see you? Setting up your light is not as hard as some people think, you do not need to hire anybody to set up your lighting for you this is something very simple you can do by yourself.
Even if you have a cheap poor quality webcam or a lower quality webcam of the popular webcam brands you can set up your lighting so that you look flawless each time you click broadcast now. Idealy you want enough light so that your the main focal point of your video stream. Don’t assume you can use your daylight and think it’s enough for broadcasting. Natural light moves constantly and it will change the quality of your video stream, and it will end up being poor and in result have your chatters complaining there is something wrong wtih your camera when it’s actually your lighting, and if your chatters are complaining about what is going with your camera or lights they won’t be focused on buying time with you in private chat. You also want to make sure your light is evenly distributed so that way you do not have a light burst of light sitting in one place.
You want to have a minimum of 400 watts of light, if you can go higher then that is better. I use 500 watts of lights from proffesional studio lights it didn’t cost me that much for them I spent around $200 for the cheaper proffesional light set up. There is basically 3 lighting options out there you can use depending on your budget.
You can use regular spot light bulbs that are 100 watts each, and place four lighs around you. You can find these lights at any local lighting store. Try getting halogen bulbs because they are camera friendly.
You could also find lamps out there that have movable lamp heads so that way you can have lights at different angels but still keep them in balance. Remember you want them to see you not complain there is something wrong with your camera.
It’s harder to find florescent bulbs that produce enough light, and if you do end up getting fluorescent bulbs make sure they are all the same white light and the highest wattage they produce. which is more expensive then halogen lights. This option is probably the cost effective, but for it to effective for making money you need to make sure you have the highest wattage available that is compatible with the lamps and also make sure you have the right amout of lamps around you.
Worker lights they come in 250 watts and 500 watts, but you will need about 2 or 3 of them to have an effective light set up. They are pretty much sold all over the place, but if you really can’t find one a home reno place will have them. They already come with a halogen bulb be extremely careful when handling them if you touch them without wearing gloves or a cloth you can risk having the bulb explode when you turn it on. They come in different sizes the stand ones are probably best to use for your broadcasting.
Proffesional lights are your best investment for video chatting. You can pretty much get them in photography stores and online photography store websites. They come in a vereity of price ranges so you can buy proffesional lighting equipment on a nice modest budget. I find this the most effective to use thenregular lighting beause of how smooth quality appear on the camera. If you spend some time making sure you have the best lighting set up you can afford you will notice how much you can make in a few hours of broadcasting live.
I have also added a links to lighting tip websites of how to set up your lighting system so that way you have the best lighting. Setting up your lights properly is basically a simple system that pretty much everyone who broadcast live video follows for a higher quality of video stream. The theree point lighting system is the most common method to use for setting up lights for filming video or broadcasting video. Once you get this techinque you can set up lighting for virtually anything you can find a perfect diagram for the three point lighting system here.
Warning: These lights get very hot so make sure to adequately use caution when using lights indoors and close to anything that could be flammable. If lights get very hot, please use your better judgment and shut them off.
