February 6, 2012

How To Use Chroma Key For Authentic-Looking Backgrounds

There can be nothing worse than taking a professional photograph with a squirming 2 year old child, and a parent staring you down for that perfect shot.  Add to that other nasty problems such as a boring backdrop, a backdrop that doesn’t belong with the child. Throw in an extra boring background to the sum and the resulting chaos makes you feel a tad on the edge from it all.How can you master these challenges and come out with professional-looking portraits that will make others search you out for business?  Here is how by using chroma key or a.k.a green screen magic.

Many people can tell a phony photographed backdrop when using a professional printed background behind your subject.  Here are some tricks of the trade to assist you.  The biggest help of all is to find realistic props.  By using a green screen and the work-horse (fast chroma key software), the work becomes effortless and more profitable when using  a digital photograph for the background. What else you can do: you can align the object and the background just right instead of trying to juggle so many tasks at a time.

Ask the person to sit right in front of the green screen. Then, insert a prop or two that can create the impression that the person is really present in the digital background.  Some examples are to show a celebration of a birthday with a gift wrapped box.  If the person is in a flower garden (on the final photo), have them hold flowers in their hands.  The important factor is to make the photograph look natural.  Using a better quality prop paired with an equally great digital background makes for a beautiful natural looking scene.

Props help to draw the viewer into the photograph and make the portrait more emotional.   Give it some thought, which is more interesting a person standing or a person holding a soccer trophy with an enormous smile on their face?Many times a prop can tell a whole story all by itself.Imagine a child clutching a birthday gift while untying a red bow and the rest of the story unfolds before your eyes.

We all love to listen to amazing stories; the same goes for photography.  Nothing tugs at our heart strings to see a new puppy with its owner.  Take that puppy and place it into a park with its favorite ball and you can feel the joy surround the photograph.Props always infuse any portrait with instant emotions and add real life to any photograph. Green Screen Wizard software helps you make it a snap.

Imagine how much fun you will have: how to use green screen software program with your portraits a.k.a chromakey program to create high-quality, real-life looking snapshots of peoples’ lives.

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