Eliminating outline on actor during chroma keying

[John Rofrano]

[Kelden Amadiro] ” This is my last question and I really appreciate your time–do you have any other thoughts?”

Once again I’ll point you to Keith Kolbo who has an excellent tutorial on:

Tight Budget Chroma Key Lighting

He uses fluorescent lights from a hardware store (Sylvania Designer Cool White Plus 40w T12 lamps, $7 a pair) and then color corrects them with Roscosun 1/4 CTO #3408 gels.

~jr

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[Patrick Redmond]

I realise this comment is after the horse has bolted but when lighting these scenes a few things are crucial – eliminate spill from the green/blue screen back onto the subject. Try lighting the rim of the subject with a straw or amber gel on the lamp – Getting an even lighting situation is nice but incredibly hard and much time is wasted trying to achieve it. Finally doing a green screen outside in the sunshine is the best keying situation I’ve ever achieved, even if I am shooting the for an indoor scene.

[Kelden Amadiro]

Thank you for your help, John and Patrick and everyone else!!! I will look into these things!
–K

[John Rofrano]

You’re welcome. Let us know how you make out.

~jr

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