Green Screen and Electronics with shiny surfaces...

Not sure if the Lounge is the place to ask this one, but where I'm at the client doesn't have the budget to facilitate a pro making 3D models of the products they're advertising, but he wants them spinning. The products are needed with alpha. My idea was to try and put em on a spinning green pedistal on green screen with lights trying to get rid of green reflections. I'm probably on the wrong path here, so I'm asking for advice before embarking on what could be an epic fail(not that I still won't try it)...

This is a similar problem as "Removing Tint from Green Screen" (previous post). Any shiny surface will naturally reflect the background/sky etc. If you spin your objects against green that is what they will reflect. However when you replace the green with whatever background you choose the shiny objects will appear to reflect that new back, and that should look OK in many cases because that is what shiny objects do anyway. Of course the new back will not be distorted appropriately, specially notorious if the objects have curved surfaces but if the reflective areas are confined to a small part of the image this won't be a problem, and if you really want to deal with this then you can use "warp" to manipulate that part of the reflection.
Normally when you photograph a reflective product is better to create a "tent" that surrounds it and illuminate the object/product throught the material of the tent (usually thin white fabric or diffusion material). Even large objects like automoviles are photographed this way to emphasize their aereodynamic shape (so that it is not broken by unwanted reflections.
Good luck with your client

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