Blue Screen with HMIs

[Xavier Zurita]

Hello there!

Have anybody worked with this situation?

What would be better for skin tones? Tungsten or HMI?

What would be better for keying?

 

I was choosing HMI for the amount of power instead of tungstens units

 

 

Cheers!

 

Xavier Zurita

[Adrian Sierkowski]

If digital, as it's natively around 5600K balanced on the chip, I recommend daylight heads. If you're on film; then I recommend whatever the balance of the film is. Consequently, Green screen is substantially better for digital as it's the most abundant "color" on a bayer chip and blue screen for film as it's the sharpest layer.

[Xavier Zurita]

Adrian,

 

Thanks for your reply, it has to be blue because of the colors of the wardrobe that definitively will carry some green items,

 

also will work in digital.

 

Thanks

[Adrian Sierkowski]

My pleasure; and yeah, Blue works fine for digital as well just one of those little added knowledge bits lol. Been awhile since i've seen/done BluScr though (cept when i'm on a windows 98 machine lol)

[David Mullen ASC]

However blue is also the grainiest layer on tungsten-balanced film, another argument for daylight-balance for both digital and film for chromakey...

[Xavier Zurita]

Thanks David for your input !