It’s one of the cardinal rules in camerawork: keep the camera eye-level or higher. Video chatting in a windowless room? Putting a lamp behind your laptop and in front of your face works in a pinch, the pros say. It doesn’t end there: light coming from behind you could also cause for a harsh effect on everyone else’s screen, says Susan Yara, a TV journalist-turned-entrepreneur, and who runs a YouTube channel and digital production focused on beauty and lifestyle: “You don’t want to hurt everyone’s eyes.”
After all, assuming bad lighting doesn’t render you a dark shadow, it can cast unflattering shadows on your face, making you look tired, ill or even creepy – the opposite of that natural light effect. “Bad lighting is always a fear,” says Nyma Tang, a beauty YouTuber whose channel has more than a million subscribers. Because whether you’re snapping a pic for Instagram or dialling in for a video call, having that light come from behind you ends up drowning you out entirely, reducing you to an inscrutable silhouette.
Set up your computer in front of a window, and importantly, make sure that light is hitting your face straight-on. “It’s amazing for making your eyes pop and making you look really presentable on camera,” says Lenarduzzi. It evenly accentuates and brightens your skin and features, giving you a clear, flattering, movie-star-like quality. If you take away nothing else, focus on your lighting.įront-facing natural light is best. Here are their tips to look nice and professional on camera. We talked to people whose job largely features talking in front of a webcam all day. It’s not just vanity: viewers could “make snap judgments, unfortunately, about you as a person,” says Sunny Lenarduzzi, a Vancouver-based online entrepreneur, former TV reporter and regular YouTuber. That means figuring out how to flatter your face on your colleagues’ laptop screens, or the importance of a tidy living room in the background. Now that Zoom, Skype and other services have taken over our daily lives as we know it – including job interviews and dinner parties – many are wondering how to look as good on the internet as they do in person. Sitting in front of a webcam for hours is now normal – for both business meetings and sharing a ‘ quarantini’ during virtual happy hours. Worldwide, likely tens of millions are working from home as part of social distancing. The global pandemic has ground much of the world to a halt.
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