Lighting the green screen

Abba Shapiro: So Rich, now that we have our lighting set up for the model, could you talk a little…bit about lighting for that green screen background?…Rich Harrington: Sure. The goal is we want things as absolutely even as possible.…So Abba, I want you take a look through the viewfinder and just sort of let me know what you're seeing.…Abba: So, to my eye it was perfectly smooth, but once we actually look at the playback…in the histogram, and I can see there are some darker spots.…Rich: Yeah, there is and so to adjust for that, I'm going to make sure that I get the…angle right on the background, and I'm going to adjust the intensity of the light.…Now, this particular light has a dial, so you see there that we can go ahead and really ramp that up.…

In this case, I'm going to take it all the way up to 100% to get it as bright as possible,…and I might even swing this in.…So, let me know, am I on your shot, Abba, if I move this in?…Abba: Let's take a look. Nope. You're still good.…We're still pretty tight and even if you came in a little bit, we can always crop that out in the post.…