Green screens are harder to get right than they look. Lighting and color balance trip people up, and you often get a weird halo around yourself. A clean, tidy real background works better and takes less fussing.
Green screen technology is finicky, is my point. And so here we are, the average, you know, entrepreneur, consumer who's like trying to use this technology. It has to do with colors and lighting. And listen, I'm not really a super duper expert at the technological know-how of that. But what I would say is that it has more to do with lighting probably than anything. OK, so here's what I would say about virtual backgrounds. They're cool. I think the concept is really good if you can find the right combination. If you can get a virtual background that, that works with you, that does not give you that halo effect, or if you can use in Zoom the— there's like a calibration button in there. If you can use that to just tweak it a little bit and it looks good, then that's a go. I would say it would be better to use a physical background, even if you don't think it's perfect. Would be better than using a virtual background that has the halo effect. Ah, OK, what I'm saying. So like maybe like, are you being too hard on yourself in terms of your, your, your background? You know, maybe it's perfectly fine, but you're just trying to reach a level of perfection that really isn't necessary. So then I would say, hey, why don't you just use the background you have? It's perfectly fine as long as it's tidy, as long as it's clean. It could, it could really work in lieu of a green screen that— or, or an image behind you that's going to give you that effect.
From 'agreeable' to 'ruthless mentor' to 'strategic sparring partner' #substack #shorts
