Lighting Tests

We did a ridiculous amount of light tests. Strong lights, dim lights, surround lights, colour filters, tracing paper, double the tracing paper baking paper, next to the light, next to the window, near the window... we tried it all!!..

The things we discovered from these tests:

• We liked the effect of having the shadow of the metal bars on the floor
• This can't be achieved without having a bleaching glare through the window
• Bleaching can be avoided by filtering through tracing paper
• Blue filters make rooms look cold and give an illusion of night time
• Green filters make it look a bit sci-fi.
• Surrounding light doesn't give a very good effect
• Directed light is preferable if it's not too bright.

I guess from these tests, our favourites were: double tracing paper, next to the light, and tracing paper, blue filter next to the window.

Take a look at some of the test pictures if you're not dead by the end.

blue filter next to the light

blue filter next to the window

double tracing paper next to the light

double tracing paper next to the window

green and blue filter

green filter next to the light

green filter next to the window

normal, lights off

normal, lights on

normal, lights off, random figure

normal, lights off, shorter figure

tracing paper, blue filter next to the light

tracing paper, blue filter next to the window

tracing paper next to the light

tracing paper next to the window