Because you may live stream from a variety of locations, here's how to ensure your video image is straight and looks professionally composed.
Your Tripod
Ensure each tripod leg is fully extended. If you have a bubble-level on your tripod, you can ensure the tripod is level by getting the bubble directly in the center of the circle on the glass.
Vertical Lines (the best way)
Looking through your camera's screen, try to find the straight, vertical lines near the center of your view. These may be found on the sides of the podium, large furniture, wall panels, columns, organ pipes, door frames, picture frames and headstones. Line up the vertical lines of those objects with the sides of your camera's viewing frame, ensuring that they are parallel.
Horizontal Lines
Also check the the "horizon" line to ensure your picture is level. This line may be found at the base of a straight wall at the floor or where a wall meets the ceiling. In a cemetery, you want the ground to appear level from left to right, but if the ground is not level, the vertical lines of monuments may be your best point of reference for getting the picture straight.
Rule of Thirds
Where should the podium be in your picture when you're live streaming?
Ideally, the focal point of your video framing should be one third of the way from one side of the frame or the other, AND one third of way from the top or bottom of the frame. The photo below illustrates the concept. Notice that the priest's head is one third of the way down, from the top, and one third of the way over, from the left (at the intersection point of those two imaginary 1/3 lines).
Here's a one-minute video that explains how to apply this rule of thirds.
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