Waching daily Nov 4 2018

Hi everyone, how are you going? Karen Finnin here, Physiotherapist and Director of

Online.Physio. Oh my gosh, so over the weekend I did a little craft project and

I wanted to share the results with you. On Friday I was on a podcast and that

podcast was videoed and I was sitting at my computer and before the podcast

started I was faffing around with my lighting trying to get it right so that

when I was sitting at my computer I had a nice light on me but I could still see

the screen and I tell you it was a mission and what I thought was, wouldn't

it be great if, like you see some iPhone selfie cases that have lighting around

them, if my monitor had lighting around it so that I just could flick that

switch on to light me up if I was recording a video or doing a video

consultation. So I googled LED strip lights for monitors thinking that

there would be some kind of cases or covers that you could put on your

monitor so that you could be lit up when you're on a video call, and I found a lot

of LED strip lighting for monitors but it was all about putting the lighting on

the back of the monitor so that it would glow and, you know, for gaming and all

different colors and all that sort of stuff, but I found nothing for the front

of the monitor to light up your face so I did a bit of shopping and what I found

was this. I went in to Bunnings which is our big warehouse of hardware, and I

found this strip of LED lights. Now it's for indoor use only because it's not

hardy or weatherproof, but let's basically grab some off here, there we go

So believe it or not, let's see if you can see that, it is just a strip, like

paper-thin, with a sticky back on it and what I did was stick that around the

edge of my monitor, hooked it up to power and let me show you the results. So if

you look a little over here this is my monitor and you can see that around the

edge I've now got this white strip. So that's the LED lights all around there

and I'm also filming on this screen so that you can see

the effect of the lighting. So I'm going to switch screens, so here I am now this

is my normal lighting I've got darkness you can see most of my face is in

darkness, but if I flick on the switch I'm all lit up. I've got still full

access to my screen there's nothing using up the space around my desk

obviously the camera still works perfectly because I made sure I didn't

stick the strip over the camera, and if we switch back to the other camera you

can see now the lit up strip around the monitor. The very best part of this is it

only cost twenty dollars now that's Australian so if you're in other

places it might be even cheaper for you but this strip of lights, sticky back on

it, didn't take me long at all to do and now I've got my perfect solution for

whenever I'm doing a video call. I hope that's useful for you, I think you should

get out to the hardware store and make yourself an LED monitor light, make

better quality calls and better quality video and let me know how you go. I hope

that's been useful for you guys, I'll see you next time