![]() I turned the power down for the real shot so that it is less obvious. Here I am using one as a hair light which also provides some lighter edges to my head and shoulder to separate them better from the background. These are great on the camera for continuous lighting for video (or still photos) and are lightweight and battery powered. Finally, I managed to buy two Rotolight NEO2 lights when they were half price at $149 each. ![]() These provide the main light to the face and they are offset so that the shadows fall to the sides on the screen. These don’t seem to be available in a kit any longer, but there are a number of similar things on sale for around $250 for two panels. ![]() The tripod in front of me is to make sure my face is in the zone of focus of the lens (manual focus and exposure) and I can drop the center column for half body shots. The lightbox is to my right in this shot and that is providing lighting on the screen which is around 5 feet behind me. My lighting setup for green screen extraction You don’t really need high quality light just to light the green color of the screen – consistent lighting is much more important. After trying to shine two lights on the backdrop from each side, I found that a 40W daylight balanced LED bulb in a Neewer 24 inch softbox placed just besides the subject provided pretty even lighting and cost less than $50. The problem with green screens for video (and still) is that you need to get constant light levels across the screen and no shadows from the main subject, especially around their head. It collapses neatly into its case and raises with a hydraulic lift up to around 6 feet high. I’ve experimented with various ways of lighting the green backdrop, which as I mentioned in a previous post came from Elgato Gaming and is aimed at people streaming their gaming activity online. So to get this, I need to set up continuous lighting and a smooth green backdrop so why not use the same arrangement for my still shots as well. ![]() ![]() I’ve been doing more green screen oriented stock photos recently because my travels have been sorely restricted! Why a green screen when it might be much easier to extract against a pure white background? Well, I wanted to produce both videos and stock photos of the various ideas and Premiere already has a great extraction tool with the Ultra Key effect and that seems to do an excellent job with getting clean edges and a smooth video composite as you can perhaps see from this example: Man breathing nervously in face mask prior to a flight ![]()
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