Re: Shooting a subject next to LCD monitor

See, I don't know what you do when its an HDMI source, but we're still analog over here and the answer in that case, when you don't have the lights or gels to match it, would be to run the monitor's signal thru a proc-amp and time base corrector, use the procamp to jigger the colors around until they looked "right" to the camera.

There was an old practical joke they used to tell stories about. The original source is lost to me, I want to say it was somewhere in New York. Two teams of engineers were trying to match color on remotely located cameras, and instead of color bars, or a live person's face (takes too long under hot lights of the time) they used a bowl of fruit.

Some wag paints the bannana blue or red or green, can't recall which now... engineer at the other end just about stabs himself in the eye with his "greenie" because whatever he does to make the bannana look correct, it throws everything else in the fruit bowl into crazy colors.

If you're feeling naughty, you can do the same thing to somebody with color bars and photoshop these days.