Usually my background for Teams meetings is "Harmony in Blue and Gold: The Peacock Room;" which today is at the Freer/Sackler Museum (part of the Smithsonian Institution) in Washington DC:
(https://ids.si.edu/ids/deliveryService?max_w=550&id=FS-F1904.61_006)
The painting ("The Princess in the Land of Porcelain") and the room were painted by James McNeil Whistler for Richard Leyland's Mansion. The subsequent owner of the house sold the room to Charles Lang Freer; and the room was in the Freer Mansion in Detroit. Upon Freer's death the room and Freer's collection of Asian art were donated to the Smithsonian and forms the core of the Freer Gallery. I thought it was fitting for me as a fellow former Detroit resident who now resides in a swamp. ;)
This week we've had a series of Teams meetings with one of our clients. We're supposed to put their official background (a train going through the woods) when we talk. I selected my background and hit "Accept" when I started presenting, but I must have hit it twice because it changed to the default; a bunch of pink balloons. Fortunately the client thought it was funny and the presentation went well.
Anyhow does anyone have anything cool for their background? (If anyone is interested the Smithsonian does have a number of Digital Backgrounds available (https://www.si.edu/spotlight/backgrounds).
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3b/Krak_des_Chevaliers_landscape_%28cropped%29.jpg)
The Krak des Chevaliers in Syria is my work background, both for laptop and Zoom.
This fills the wall behind me, in my temporary home office. A print of Jacopo de Barbari's 1500 view of Venice.
If I use a digital background, it is the same image. It tends to confuse people.
(https://d3i71xaburhd42.cloudfront.net/7ea050772c796c29c44ce2ced1ebdf163c605e2c/2-Figure1-1.png)
(https://asset-manager.bbcchannels.com/i/2fy6q0000001000)
I don't use one :ph34r:
I use the "blurred background" feature of MS Teams.
(https://i.kym-cdn.com/entries/icons/original/000/013/932/6eab6586.jpg)
Or
(https://i.ibb.co/f9X5c7j/Bv-Jd0r-DIc-AAh-Dc-W.jpg)
Or... A standard picture of my room with the curtains behind me closed and me peaking out from behind the curtains. Visible only when I move from centre of the camera.
If it's a serious meeting though then just wherever I'm sitting....
We rarely use video. Usually voice only.
Quote from: Iormlund on August 12, 2021, 07:14:23 AM
We rarely use video. Usually voice only.
Question still applies. I know DG uses insanely loud hardbass for instance.
I don't use one.
Quote from: Savonarola on August 11, 2021, 02:42:49 PM
Anyhow does anyone have anything cool for their background? (If anyone is interested the Smithsonian does have a number of Digital Backgrounds available (https://www.si.edu/spotlight/backgrounds).
thanks for that! Shall be useful in the weeks to come! :)
Québec Seminary inner court
(https://i.postimg.cc/C5CWRXmG/2180554447-867298ccc6-o.jpg)
On teams I use one of the minimal backgrounds that is mostly white and a plant. On zoom, I use the first hit that came up when I searched office background zoom.
(https://imgix.bustle.com/uploads/shutterstock/2020/3/25/72415f8c-3e06-40fc-b5a6-32fd76c7b567-shutterstock-1270572721.jpg?w=1200&h=630&fit=crop&crop=faces&fm=jpg)
Where I work we make cameras. We don't use video chat, audio only.
It's quite funny, imo.
This week we've had a series of Teams meetings with one of our clients. We're supposed to put their official background (a train going through the woods) when we talk. I selected my background and hit "Accept" when I started presenting, but I must have hit it twice because it changed to the default; a bunch of pink balloons. Fortunately the client thought it was funny and the presentation went well.
Funny stuff, fun and colorful background anyway. :) Glad things went well.