Thursday, August 4, 2011

The Reasons Why You Should Use Green Screen Los Angeles

By Phillip Guye


Photographers are currently into green screen Los Angeles. Green screen photography is when you photograph your subject in front of a green backdrop and then the software applications removes all of the green in the photograph. After that you can add any type of background behind or in front of the person you just took. The computer software will quickly merge the two pictures together creating one excellent 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 use chroma key to replace that shade of green with another image, which makes it look like the person is in front of a different background. Green or blue are the colors of choice because they are the furthest from the color of skin, ensuring that pieces of the actor or actress do not merge into the background. You can buy pricey green screens to take 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 valuable to your studio's bottom line. People who do corporate portraiture may have a number of clients who want to have their staff photographed on location in the office. You only drag all the gear to their offices at one time, document the very best locations for backgrounds, light them like portrait backgrounds, and make up a file of those images. Transporting in and setting up lighting is a serious disruption to the general flow of an office. Take into account the worth to the clients if you just have to do that every couple of years, as you shoot their new staff in the convenience of your studio, dropping in backgrounds along the way.




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