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@SynapticLight 26110 wrote:

I am setting up again for some green screen shooting in the near future and would love to hear what solution you go for and if Mylar can be used effectively.

Mate – it would seem that the solution is there is no solution! Only a choice of lesser evils – are you better suited to deal with roto (knees-down or reflections) or multiple shadows. I think I’ll stick to the camera! 😮

Kim

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Kim Sargenius
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Kevin,

That makes sense – try and minimise multiple shadows as much as possible. This being a microbudget production there is howver limits to what I can pull of lighting wise – bunch of space light is unfortunately out of reach. I can go with two 12×12 silks for overall ambience, which I was thinking more as a frontal fill but I might have to think of ways of rigging them over head… Food for thought.

cheers,

Kim

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Kim Sargenius
cinematographer

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@neonmarg 26022 wrote:

My point was that there are very few instances where you want the reflection at that level so you now have to roto to separate the two.

Thanks for that clarification Jeff. I’m not a compositor myself – I’m trying to wrap my head around what could be a sticky situation for the ones that will eventually have to do the compositing.

So, in your experience, what is the best way of dealing with head-to-toe shots?

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Kim Sargenius
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Colin,

Yep, certainly ambitious here! 🙂 Damn near 100% digital sets, shooting on the very, very cheap apart from using the RED camera.

I’ve been told that there most of the time we will have some sort of set on the ground so this problem hopefully won’t be popping up too often.

I’m confident lighting the screen itself to the required level and uniformity, we did a test in February and it worked out well, but I’m worried about the floor. The lighting will be pretty toppy and I think it’ll cast all sorts of shadows on a green floor…

Perhaps time for another test methinks…

Thanks for your replies guys!

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Kim Sargenius
cinematographer

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Jeff,

Thanks for your response. Just to clarify – when you say 100% reflections, do you mean all the surroundings, including unwanted set, riggin etc, or do you mean 100% reflection of the foreground element that you’re trying to key out?

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Kim Sargenius
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