Behind-the-Scenes with Big Pictures

Archive for March, 2008


Shooting a Dinosaur for Prehistoric Megastorms

Imagine a hurricane four times taller than Mount Everest, with winds as fast as a 747. Or a super tidal wave the height of a ten-story building moving at 450 miles per hour across our oceans. Or a storm that makes the Atlantic hotter than a hot tub. These are a few of the amazing [...]






ChromaFull

Most of us understand the basics of shooting a chroma key scene: set up a green or blue screen behind the subject, light it brightly and evenly, move the subject far enough in front of the screen so that the subject’s lighting won’t throw shadows on the background, light the subject, and away you go. [...]