Your A-roll/talking head shots suck (but mine do too)

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[@Crawling8888]

I think you don't necessarily always have to shoot into the corner for depth. Sometimes it's enough to achieve depth only through lighting, color contrast and props.
If you want to shoot into a flat wall, you can absolutely do that but you have to make shure to obtain enough separation from the background and interest by your framing and compostition.
Wes Anderson shoots into flat walls all the time and it looks great.

[@nigelbarrostoo]

Very true, I think the way I did it back then just didn't work as well. All these things I say aren't gospel just ways that I could have improved my mediocre shots

[@joestrahl6980]

I have followed your original channel on and off for some time. Something which I try to do is to not put myself in the exact center in terms of left to right. Several reasons for this:
1 can be a bit more interesting
2 if I edit in an object in post I am talking about then if I position myself 60-40 % left to right or even on a rule of thirds line then there is space (or if I mess up a line there is room to the side to correct this instead of pasting the * correct text on my forehead
3 by being slightly off center I can also angle the way I am looking towards the middle of the screen so the object or text I edit in afterwards isn't something I have to point to, it just appears naturally beside me...since enevitably when you record and point to something that will appear in post you (I) never point exactly where it appears in post
4 of course, if I really want to drive home a point I can jump cut to myself dead center and say the line that is important and then go back to the more off center conversational style...this creates a dynamic or positive tension that can lead to retention
What is my use case: I am a university professor that recorded my self lecturing mostly from home during the pandemic...where sometimes while standing I had a table monitor beside me with the power point slides ahowing. My motto was try to be like a meteorologist talking about/showing the weather rather than be a talking head reporter reading the news off a teleprompter...
So long comment which was not about lighting but about positioning and "the choreography" of the PTC.

[@nigelbarrostoo]

Those are good practices! I typically stick to the rule of thirds with my framing 90% of the time unless i know I'll have something popping up on screen.