I find two key lights are much better than one for evenly lighting a stream or shoot, and here's a set from Neewer that's nearly buy one, get one free for Black Friday

HardwareLightingI find two key lights are much better than one for evenly lighting a stream or shoot, and here’s a set from Neewer that’s nearly buy one, get one free for Black FridayWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.

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Lighting is important. This is something I’ve been personally learning the hard way over the past seven years of desperately trying to make my product images look better for reviews. I believe I finally cracked the basics (I’m still learning) once I realised I needed proper lights—at least two of them—and some sort of diffusion.

The good news is, I’ve spotted a really excellent deal on a pair of key lights Ialmostbought a few months back. They’re these: Neewer’s 13-inch Video Light Panel 2-Pack (NL-192AI), which are currently down to the lowest price I have them on record at$91.

That’s for the set of two lights, power plugs, stands, and carry case. Essentially everything you need to light up a stream or video shoot properly.

One light can act as yourmainlight. That’s the brightest, most central panel beaming onto whatever it is you’re shooting. Then you use the second panel to cut out some of those shadows and give whatever it is a more even glow.

You might want to consider adding a diffuser for product photography, but I’ll get to all that shortly.

Anyways, I know what you’re thinking.Almostbuying something isn’t the highest commendation in the land. Though I ended up borrowing a pair of Elgato key lights that my partner had been using for streaming and ultimately saved spending any money at all on new lights, which I think is fair enough.

The exact model I use, Elgato’s Key Light Air, is on sale at$91, though that’s not much lower than its usual price. The larger Key Light is available for$130in a supposed Black Friday deal, but that’s also not much cheaper than usual. And our pick for thebest key lightright now, the Elgato Key Light Neo, is still full price at$90.

The Key Light Air is the best pick of those three Elgato units, but when you can get two key lights for less than the price of Elgato’s one key light, the Neewer is a smart pick. That’s especially true if you just need a straightforward, simple lighting solution with lots of flexibility, which most people do, and which Neewer offers here.

Onto the Neewer lamps. They can be tuned between 3200 and 5600K temperature, which means they’re mostly on the warmer side. That means more yellowish tones. However, 5600K is what I use across most of my lights pretty much every time I use them. So while the brighter white and blue tones are missing, for product photography and streaming, they’re alright.

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