From the course: Green Screen Techniques for Photography and DSLR Video
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Shooting handheld
From the course: Green Screen Techniques for Photography and DSLR Video
Shooting handheld
Abba Shapiro: Now, we're going to take a look at shooting handheld. Most of the time, if you're shooting a portrait or school portraits or you have a lot of shots to do, you just want people to step in and snap and snap and snap and make sure the lighting doesn't change. In this case, I really want a little more freedom when working with the shot. I may even change lenses so I don't want to have to be tied down to a tripod. So we're going to do some nice handheld shots. You'll see that I'll get lower than the model to really give a sense of strength to the athlete. I may even switch to a much wider angle lens. Now taking consideration when you are going handheld, what's happening in the background and always keep in the back of your mind that if I position myself in a way that I'm actually getting the light behind her head, I won't be able to Chroma key it out. So always keep in mind what's in your frame and what the final shot is going to look like. Rich Harrington: One of the things…
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