How to get started live streaming your art
What basic equipment do I need to live stream my art?
While there is a deep rabbit hole of live streaming equipment you can travel down, to get started you do not need to spend hundreds (or thousands) on fancy hardware. Start with a smartphone and a tripod, or a good webcam. The webcam that comes pre-installed on many laptops is normally not of high-enough quality for live streaming purposes.To get more news about 39bet-nhà cái uy tín-xổ số kiên giang-xổ số hồ chí minh-xổ số vũng tàu-xổ số bình dương, you can visit official website.
Webcams vs. smart phones
How do you decide whether you should use your smartphone or a webcam? This depends largely on the streaming platform and/or software you’re using. Smartphone broadcasting is great for a quick impromptu video, or recording outside of your studio and away from a proper setup. However, smartphone batteries will drain rapidly when live streaming, and will also be challenging to keep stable and avoid shaking. It’s also virtually impossible to setup a live stream of your art without a good tripod that you can attach to a surface at odd angles in order to get the right view of your work.
You will also want to ensure that your lighting has eliminated all shadows on your art. Lighting quality is just as important as video quality, and if you have to choose between better video quality but worse lighting or great lighting with poorer video quality, you will want to prioritize lighting. Excellent lighting can redeem a lower quality webcam, but there’s not much you can do if all your great webcam is picking up is dark shadows. Bad lighting will be particularly frustrating for viewers of an art stream.
If you choose to use a smartphone or want to position your webcam in a different way, you’ll need a tripod. There are tons of innovative tripods made specifically for smartphones. Try one of these, all under $20:
Regardless of the streaming platform you choose, it’s fairly easy and accessible to simply jump in and begin streaming, and refine your equipment and techniques as you go. The barrier to entrance is very low.
As you get into the swing of things, there are several ways to enhance the experience for your viewers. The simplest way to enhance the experience for everyone is to pay close attention to the chat and engage with your viewers! Some more ideas for a better streaming experience for everyone:
There is also the potential to do live online art shows to feature new collections and sell your art to collectors all over the world who may not be able to attend an in-person show. This would be especially effective after you’ve been live streaming for a while and have built up an audience who loves to watch you work. The multi-level marketing world has already gotten in on this opportunity on Facebook Live (raise your hand if you’ve ever been invited to a live Facebook “party” by a friend selling clothing, makeup, or food storage containers), but there’s a huge potential here for artists as well.
Live streaming opens up a wide range of opportunities to collaborate with other types of artists in ways that are not possible with other mediums.
It’s very likely that artists have yet to exhaust the innovative and creative possibilities made available with the advent of live streaming as a valid and increasingly popular medium. Ali Sabet is one example of an artist working on the cutting edge of what’s possible with live streaming technology. Check out this virtual reality doodling live stream Ali did using Oculus, a virtual reality gaming system:
