Green Screen Photography: About 

Ever wonder how your favorite artist managed to get on top of a mountain for the picture on the album cover?  Chances are it is not a real picture but a digitally produced photo using green-screen photography.  Same goes for that amazing shot of some guy jumping out of an airplane right into the mouth of a shark.  We have all seen pictures that make us say “Wow” or “Oh my”.  Sometimes these pictures are real, but more often than not they were taken using green-screen photography. 

Green screen photography is a method used by photographers to take an object or person in the foreground of a picture and separate them from the background and composite them onto a new background.  Using a green screen makes this separation easier.  A large piece of green fabric is placed behind the subject being photographed.  Why green?  Well, human flesh tones do not have much green in them therefore making post processing of the background easier.  If you were to use a color close to human flesh tones then removing all traces of the background color from the image portions of the subject’s skin would disappear as well, making it look very strange.  The best colour to use is green and therefore it is called green screen photography.   

However, not just any shade of green will do.  You cannot just go to your local paint store and buy a green paint and paint the wall.  This will not work.  The green normally used in green screen photography is highly saturated and bright. 

Practicing green screen photography is not as easy as setting up a green curtain or wall and snapping away.  The major challenge when photographing with a green screen is ensuring that the screen is lit properly.  Without proper lighting of the screen composition of the final image will be very difficult if not near impossible to accomplish.  Also, when shooting green screen photography photographers have to be aware of lighting that might spill onto or bounce onto the subject.  Forethought must be given to the final composition as to how the subject should be lighted in the final product.  This means that any spill or bouncing of light onto the subject that was not planned could cause an un-natural and un-successful composite photo at the end.
The next time you are watching your favourite movie and find yourself wondering “Wow, I wonder where they found a location that looks that awesome?” try to remember green screen photography.  Chances are that the outdoor battle scene you love so much was actually shot in a studio, not on some remote forest location.  Advances in photography have allowed photographers to do some pretty amazing things, but no advancement has yet to replace the flexibility and ease of using green screen photography.

 

 

 

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