On 22/3/09, Jens, discombobulated, unleashed: > >Hello List >Could someone please direct me to knowledge about Greenscreen/Chromakey >techniques? >I need to be able to place people Inin pictures) in front of different >sceneries/backgrounds. >In the old days, photographers used Frontprojection (e.i. by Hensel), >but today this is done digitally, I suppose. Especially in movies and >TV, but also in still photography. > >Which software should be used, after shooting the models in front of a >proper green screen/blue screen? Are there special issues I need to know >befor shooting?
Are you talking about stills shooting, or video? The point of shooting green / blue screen is that it would take forever to individually 'photoshop' each frame of a moving image where a new background is to be added. If stills, I personally can't see an advantage to shooting with a green or blue screen background, and may even be detrimental in terms of colour interference. If I was shooting stills of a subject I knew I was going to place on a different background in post-processing, I would shoot against a white, or light-coloured backdrop. If shooting video or film, you want green or blue screen (depending upon process used). More info: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluescreen> Tutorial on blue / green screen compositing with Final Cut: <http://www.kenstone.net/fcp_homepage/chroma_key_fcp_hd_monahan.html> HTH -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=====| http://www.cottysnaps.com _____________________________ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
