Is this green screen or studio lighting?
by Deke Ryland
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Jun 13, 2008 at 1:38:41 pm
I love the background Scott Kelby used for this video, but was wondering if he used a studio background with lighting, or if he just shot this on green screen and made the background in photoshop. Anyone have any guesses?
Re: Is this green screen or studio lighting? by Christian Wheel on Jun 13, 2008 at 1:52:31 pm
I would say green screen, if you look closely you can very faintly see the edges (although it COULD be compression artifacts), but he's also not casting shadows on the backdrop, which is inconstistent with the direction of his lighting. Finally, when the video cuts to tight shots, the backdrop resize appears slightly disproportionate from how it should.
Re: Is this green screen or studio lighting? by Akber Moeen on Jun 13, 2008 at 3:02:52 pm
Yeah sure its a green screen stuff, if you can see carefully his head part in closeup u can see a green spill at the top of his head for a while in one of the closeup shots, that where i caught that this is green screen job.
Re: Is this green screen or studio lighting? by Erik Pontius on Jun 13, 2008 at 3:55:45 pm
My money is on a simple studio lighting setup. Most likely a light with a party gel lighting a black, gray or colored cyc wall or seamless paper behind the subject creating a wash with a bit of a hotspot.
This could be done green screen as well, but why spend the extra time and effort properly lighting a green screen and pulling the matte when a five minute lighting job can do the trick?
Re: Is this green screen or studio lighting? by Jeremy Allen on Jun 13, 2008 at 7:10:59 pm
I think I agree with Akber. It looks like green spill on his hair, although I guess it could be a lighting anomoly. But it could certainly be done easily with a simple lighting setup.
