Backplate (photography)
The term backplate has established itself in photography as a technical term for large-format background and overview photos with high resolution and color depth .
Technology and use
This digital medium format photos taken or even more specialized cameras, mostly of landscapes, roads and cities, serve in the advertising photography , product visualization and marketing as backgrounds for exempted items. Backplates are also used in CGI projects , where they give 3D video animation a realistic background. In addition, backplates are used for large-format poster advertising on scaffolding and at trade fair appearances.
Color space , color depth and resolutions of up to 100 megapixels result in files of up to 6 GB in uncompressed images in TIFF or RAW format . During production, the lighting conditions, camera position, format and, above all, the marginal allowances are selected in such a way that the graphic designers and image editors have enough leeway for adjustments later without losing focus and flexibility.
Moving image
Backplate videos are film sequences of high technical quality that are suitable as moving backgrounds - also in terms of lighting and camera work. Typical examples of such assemblies are (mostly short) scenes of driving, including computer-animated cars.
Web links
- Backplates , DOCMA, magazine for image editing, April 30, 2016
Individual evidence
- ^ Rainer Zerback: Photographing cars: technology, design, practice . Ed .: mitp-Verlag. 1st edition. 2011, p. 254 . ( limited preview in Google Book search)
- ↑ Linda Stradling: Production Management for TV and Film: The Professional's Guide . A & C Black, June 15, 2010, pp. 132 (English). ( limited preview in Google Book search)
- ↑ Descriptions of various specialized photo agencies
- ↑ Charlie Dombrow: Oldtimer & Youngtimer pictures: cars and motorcycles in the right setting . Franzis Verlag, June 29, 2016, p. 101 . ( limited preview in Google Book search)