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“I shoot Fujifilm X system. The GFX system is too large for on set photography. It’s great for specials and when you have a selection of images, not so broad. But when you are shooting all day every day on a film set, those files are too big and unnecessarily big, you don’t need it for that, so it’s not worth the time that they take [to load and process].” — Chiabella James.

DUNE Blockbuster Movie Images taken with Fujifilm X Series APS-C Gear - Fuji Rumors FR-reader Malcom was going through the book Dune Part 1 – The Photography, and he told me he noticed that images in that book were tank by Chiabella James using Fujifilm X Series cameras. Dune Part 1 – The Photography Chiabella James was also part of the Depth of Field podcast at BHphoto, and in...

“To deal with the bright magenta tint of everything in front of the green screen, the Netflix researchers employed a “machine learning colorization technique” which is trained on additional footage of the foreground subject filmed under traditional white lighting so the AI model knows how everything is supposed to look and how to remove the tint, after the fact.

Besides potentially being faster with more accurate results, the new technique has another big advantage: it doesn’t limit what the on-screen talent can wear. In the test footage, a performer is seen wearing a green dress and holding a green glass bottle and neither disappear when the green backdrop is replaced.”

Netflix Found a Way to Make Removing Green Screens Easier by Turning Actors Bright Purple Magenta Green Screen is a new approach to visual effects that takes advantage of digital cameras' peculiar blind spots.