Digital backgrounds
Aug 5, 2012 04:01:21 #
Aug 5, 2012 11:19:30 #
nikonshooter wrote:
Why buy what you can create..... but more often than not, unless greenscreening, I would rather shoot with a acceptable background in place - hate to add more post that needed.
ronz wrote:
Anyone experienced in creating their own high rez digital backgrounds. Need specialized scenes for upcoming theme event and none available to purchase that meet my needs. Thanks much
Why buy what you can create..... but more often than not, unless greenscreening, I would rather shoot with a acceptable background in place - hate to add more post that needed.
The answer is obvious - you're in a hot climate and you need a snow background, you're in a snow climate and you need a tropical background, it's Spring and you need a colored leaves Fall background, you live in Idaho and want an ocean and beach background, you live in Denver but need a lobster boat from Maine, it's 95 degrees outside and you want to shoot a model wearing a fur-lined winter coat and boots as a pre-season product shot for a catalog. You have a spare bedroom but don't want to spend $200 each for curtain or muslin roll background so you buy 200 different digital backgrounds for $100. That's a small list of few reasons why you buy instead of create.
Aug 5, 2012 11:27:56 #
ronz wrote:
Anyone experienced in creating their own high rez digital backgrounds. Need specialized scenes for upcoming theme event and none available to purchase that meet my needs. Thanks much
Personally, I shoot them with my 16.2MP dSLR, resize and crop to 11X14 and 8X10 (while retaining 300ppi) in post-editing (saved as JPG or TIFF under different names) and then just insert the background into Green Screen Wizard. I most times use JPG (smaller for the program to handle) because once the background is initially created and saved it is never re-compressed/re-saved to cause degradation. When GSW saves your final product it's a new file combination of merged background and foreground - not a re-compression of the original components.
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