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Friday Slide Show: True Hue
3 November 2023
Carlo Collodi's 1881 serial Le Avventure di Pinocchio introduced the world to a wooden puppet whose nose grew when he lied, carved by a lonely woodworker named Geppetto. The puppet eventually became a real boy, but it wasn't easy. Lies are so convenient. Until they aren't.
For this slide show, we decided to photograph our Disney version of Pinocchio, which we've featured before. We wanted to capture the true colors of the painted figurine but we wanted to use a simplified background.
So we turned again to the Joby Beamo kit for our lighting.
The LED lighting kit, designed for video podcasts, includes a small, colored background light and a bigger key light offering white in various temperatures.
We don't do video but we had thought the combination would make a useful studio kit for photographing small objects so we acquired one. And we weren't wrong.
We've shown what it can do a few times already (and our review will appear shortly) but this was the first time we used both the background light as a background (lighting a white board in blue) and the key light to light the subject (because we wanted its actual colors).
We shot with a macro converter, which explains the optical defects. And added a vignette, which spoiled the even blue background. But the color was right where we wanted it. True hues on the subject against a blue background. Perfect.
And that, friend, is no lie. Just observe our nose if you don't believe us.
