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LIGHTING COOKBOOK 2.0

NOTE: Greenscreen lighting is the one situation in which your goal is to actually light everything as flat and evenly as possible. Shadows and greenscreen keying don’t always get along very well, so you want to generally avoid the moody lighting you see in some of the other setups in this section. Instead, use soft bright lights such as the Kinoflos we used here. However, to keep things from getting too flat and one-dimensional, try adding a hard hair light. For a little variation, on the hair light, you may wish to add a splash of light color like amber, magenta, or light blue, but I recommend always consulting your editor first or doing some test shots and keying them right there on your laptop to determine if your color ...