All you need is one of two things, either daylight from a large window or a desk lamp plus ambient room light. It doesn’t have to be expensive, and it doesn’t have to be a special studio light. Good lighting can make a big difference to your video. If your head touches the top of the frame your image looks wrong, but so does having your face in the middle of the frame.
Just like the Goldilocks fairytale, the gap has to be ‘just right’. The gap is called “Head Room” and it shouldn’t be too small nor too big. But make sure you leave a little gap between the top of your head and the top edge of the frame. Ideally, your face or eyes should be about a third of the way down from the top edge of the frame, so add or take away a book or two until you’ve got the height perfect. If you’re using an external webcam on a large desktop monitor consider getting a table top tripod so you can adjust the webcam’s height. Use a pile of books, a case, or even a box until the webcam is at about eye-level, or just a little lower. Raise your laptop by whatever method suits you. If you are not properly framed in the image don’t try tilting the webcam on the laptop, you’ll undo all the good stuff in the previous section. Your webcam placement should be at about your eye level The webcam is now probably pointing at your chest and not your face. This way, any vertical lines in the background will look vertical and your horizontals will appear horizontal.īut hold on a minute. Your webcam should be level and pointing straight forwards. Whether using your laptop’s internal webcam or a separate external webcam, only tilt back your screen until it is vertical. Also, by tilting your screen back, the ceiling becomes your background and any vertical lines, like the sides of doors and windows, look slanted and converge to a point above your head. Viewers don’t need to see up your nose, nor do you need to risk having a double chin. Just because others do this doesn’t mean it’s right. You’ll often see people interviewed over Skype with their laptop screen tilted back to get the webcam pointing at their face. Keep your webcam angles horizontal and vertical Choose a quiet spot and use an external microphone.Smile and look at the webcam lens and not your computer screen.Your webcam placement should be at about your eye level.Keep your webcam angles horizontal and vertical.
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