Photo: Getty Images Given how many people will be working from home for the foreseeable future, it’s safe to say that video calls aren’t going anywhere. But fall and the shorter days it brings present a new challenge for our lives on Zoom: The loss of daylight. Natural light, according to the filmmakers, videographers, and television producers we spoke to, is always going to be the best way to illuminate yourself on a video call.
Get LED bulbs for your desk lamp Philips Non-Dimmable A19 Frosted LED Light Bulbs, Daylight 3000K Color Temperature $30 If you can’t sit close to a window, or there isn’t enough sunlight streaming through it, your best bet is to re-create this scenario, which you can do a couple of ways. The first is to try installing LED bulbs in your desk lamp. “If you use LED bulbs, you can point the desk lamp towards the wall in front of you,” says Tan.
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If you’re using a ring light, our experts just warn that it can reflect in eyes and glasses, causing a glare. To fix that, Tan suggests angling the light a little bit off to the side or above you, or simply moving it farther away from your face. “That spreads the light out a bit more,” he says.
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