Room 1
I am lighting both my rooms using a LED wired to a battery. The light is turned on by pressing a switch down. I like the idea of the rooms being interactive. The viewer will look through the small round hole or holes (haven’t decided yet) and at the same time press the red switch to turn on the light. One LED lights the room perfectly. This single light makes some lovely shadows from the furniture.
A single LED wired to a battery
Press the red switch and we have light!
Looking through the round hole to see the lit room
I spent all Thursday altering my photos I took at Tranmer House. Not sure how many I made but I think I still have to make a few more to fill the Victorian photo album. On Friday I popped into uni to get the images I made printed. I’ve got to pick up my images on Monday but Glen our technician kindly printed me a strip of 4 photos so I could colour them at home with tea.
Test strip for colour testing
Tea staining the prints
Boy image scratched and tea stained
I thought staining my printed photos would be a simple task after my tea colour tests the other day, but it turns out this is not going to be as straight forward as I thought. I am really pleased with the look of my printed images but of course the paper is completely different to my original prints, so it absorbs the tea differently from my photos I tested last week. When I removed my images from the tea solution they looked a good colour – a pale sepia colour with darker areas where tea leaves laid on the images. The photo above hasn’t captured the colour but when they dried the colour is really strong, nothing like when I took them out of the tea solution. I’m going to have to make a weaker brew or paint the tea on to get a lighter tint!
