allright, no lies. that's my tv. i've heard of photographers that buy ridiculously expensive video projectors, and use them to project backgrounds onto white walls, then have subjects stand in front of say.... a beach scene, and then they take a picture. light it correctly, and who's to say that your subject wasn't at the beach? nevermind that you and your subject are in nebraska or wherever.
so anyways. thought i'd give it a try, see how hard it is. i don't have a projector, but i do have a big ass tv hooked up to my computer. so i grabbed a lake shot from the interwebs, made it full screen, set my camera to burn it in, then set up a few lights for myself, and here we are. a passable image of me at a lake in the fall. if only there were lakes near where i live, i would just go there. but unfortunately......
yeah. so anyways the tough part seems to be mimicking the light in your background. that and keeping the flash from reflecting off the screen. my screen isn't that big, however. so i'm limited to basically a head and neck picture.
i don't really see the point of using this technique to just throw in a background, however. i can get better results by actually going there than i can with this fakery. what is interesting though, would be to use this as an abstract background generator. like come up with crazy graphic patterns and then shoot people in front of the screen.
or --- even better, my tv is 40 inches. that's about the size of a medium-bigish softbox. why not use the tv as a light source? i could color it whatever color i want, put precise hotspots at different places, maybe have it shining a striped pattern, so that someone standing next to it will have a light-dark repetition on their skin. i could be onto something here.... the dawn of the age of the fifteen hundred dollar light modifier.
might be a bit heavy for a light stand, though.
setup shot:
iso 100, 1/13th of a second, aperture 5.6
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