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5 Tips for creating professional Product Videos at home on a Budget

Five practical tips for shooting professional-looking product videos at home with minimal gear.

sebpic · 10 min · Beginner · CIN · Cinematography · 2021

What you take away

Clean backgrounds and one soft light beat expensive gear.

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Oscar winners for cinematography

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Kit for this lesson

Aputure Light Dome Mini III — The Dome for small rooms and small fixtures
Aputure Light Dome III — The softbox most Bowens fixtures wear
Aputure Lantern 90 — Soft from every direction — ambience in one piece
DoPchoice Snapbag Octa — Opens like an umbrella — the rental standard softbox
Sigma 35mm F1.4 DG DN Art — The reportage prime
Laowa 12mm f/2.8 Zero-D — Ultra wide with no barrel distortion

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