If you look at the top shot, you can see that I’ve positioned these lights slightly above my head pointing towards my face, both about 45 degrees from my nose, with one light using 3 bulbs, the other 5 to create a slightly shadowed look to model the face. Both sets of lights are daylight balanced, so I didn’t have to put shades on my windows. You don’t have the control for moody, nuanced lighting, but for flat or slightly shadowed lighting, they’re ideal. I’ve had these for just under two years, and they provide lots of cheap, undirected light, which is perfect for office shoots like this one. You need separate lights for the subject, and for this I used some ePhoto softboxes that I’ve had for awhile, specifically, the ePhoto VL9026s 2000 Watt Lighting Studio Portrait Kit, which now costs $167 on Amazon. In this small setup, these four-bulb lights worked perfectly. I positioned both lights about head level on the background, trying to produce even lighting on the portion of the screen that showed behind me in the shot. Still, for $160, I marvelled at how cheap and effective lighting has become.
A good backlight really needs a focusable element, whether a lens, barn door or egg crate, to avoid that problem. The two lights were perfect for lighting the greenscreen, but the hair light was too unfocused and created highlights on my forehead, so I didn’t use it.
Specifically, I bought the Fancierstudio 3000 Watt Lighting Kit With 3 Stands and 3 softbox Lighting Kit for about $160, primarily because it came with three lights, one with a boom to serve as hair light. Optimally, you light the green screen separately from the subject, and I have a set of cheap compact fluorescent softboxes for that chore. I’ll build a similar one in white for future shoots. There’s another scrap 1×4 board at the bottom maintaining the tension and minimizing the wrinkles. Rather than buying a stand, I pinned the green screen to a scrap piece of 1×4 lumber and hung it on my wall with some picture hooks. It all starts with the green screen, of course, which is the cheapest and easiest part.
#Proprompter hdi pro2 ipad plus
Here’s the big picture “establishing shot.” Sharp-eyed readers will discern two sets of lights, one on the greenscreen, one on me, plus the lens of the Canon XH A1 I’m shooting with and the ProPrompter teleprompter that uses my iPad 1 for the electronics. So, just to have ammunition for higher fees next time, I figured I would detail the gear I had to set up and configure to get the job done. If fact, this week I had to shoot two video intros, and it took three hours to produce them. “What’s the harm,” they ask? It’s only 30 seconds of video, how long will that take to shoot?” Well, if you’re like me and you don’t have a dedicated studio and staff for such productions, they can take awhile. I produce lots screencams, and some customers like having a live greenscreen video intro in front of the screencam.
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