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Thursday, August 4, 2011

Why Use Green Screen Los Angeles

By Phillip Guye


Photographers are now into green screen Los Angeles. Green screen photography is when you take pictures of your subject when in front of a green background and then the software applications eliminates all the green in the photo. After that you can add any type of background behind or in front of the person you just took. The computer application will quickly merge the 2 images together making one great fantasy picture.

Green screen studio kits are used to superimpose a subject on a backdrop. Green screens work by a cameraperson shooting a subject against the green background and then uploading the footage to a personal computer, where the green background is taken away and substituted with another background. Green screens can be found as a complete kit with all the elements you'd need, however, you can also create some of the equipment, or maybe you like to purchase the items separately. A full green screen studio kit should have at least a green screen, a background support and two lights for the background.

By shooting a person in front of a green screen, you can utilize chroma key in order to replace that shade of green with another picture, which makes it appear like the individual is in front of a different background. Green or blue are the shades of preference because they are the furthest from the color of skin, making sure pieces of the actor don't merge into the background. You can buy pricey green screens to shoot your special effects.

In order to create a green screen, go to your local hardware shop and select several paint swatches in the bright green color area. A few of more effective colors exist in the "kid's room" paint area. Pick about 6 different shades of green and take them back home. Spread the different colored paint swatches out on the floor and without your videos lights, shoot the samples for about 30 seconds. Capture the footage and put the green screen filter on the clip. Depending on your editing program, make a layer just under the one you just captured and place a solid black jpg. Modify the controls until you find which color "keys" out the very best. Go back to your local hardware shop and have the paint department make a gallon of the green paint you chose. Then proceed to the flooring department and buy the cheapest item of linoleum they carry. Paint the back of the linoleum with the green paint and once dry, hang it up and shoot away.

Green screen Los Angeles work can be useful to your studio's net profit. Those who do corporate portraiture could have a number of clients who like to have their employees photographed on location in the workplace. You just move all of the gear into their offices at one time, document the very best locations for backgrounds, light them just like portrait backgrounds, and make up a file of all those images. Transporting in and setting up lighting is really a serious interruption to the general flow of an office. Consider the value to the clients if you just have to do that every couple of years, while you shoot their new employees in the convenience of your studio, dropping in backgrounds along the way.




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