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Lighting
Lighting of your chosen backdrop is extremely important; the more even the lighting on the backdrop the
better the finished result. Lighting setups for the foreground subject will vary according to the effect you want.
For chroma keying backdrops even lighting with no hotspots or shadow areas is the aim. This is easiest to
achieve with a set up something like this:
In the diagram you will see we recommend a minimum of 1m between subject and backdrop, it is always
easier to get even lighting if this distance is greater, so please think of 1m as the absolute minimum. The
foreground lighting on the subject will obviously vary according to the effect that you are looking for and as
long as the backdrop is evenly lit this should not be a problem.
With Retro Reflective Cloth the lighting is a little different. The backdrop requires no lighting as the LED Light
Ring, which is mounted on the camera provides all the lighting for the backdrop. A Retro Reflective Cloth set
up would be more like this:
