Lighting experiments

Since my illustration was about souls, light and was influenced by stain glass windows I though if I had light coming through my images it would add and extra competent to the narrative and really give the scene of lighting darkness and afterlife. 

To get this light I simply lay onto the light box and photographed it, image 1 and 2 are the results of doing this. Image 1 is just the light and image, this really lights up my image and adds a glow an makes the image very biblical. But I do think its stripped a lot of the colour away and has draw the viewers eye away from the other elements in the image and that it is paper craft. While image 2 I added tracing paper and then the card before putting it on the light box this has just added a slight glow from these areas and is a lot more subtle. I do really like how this experiment went on image 2  it think it displays what I wanted my image to be, but again it was harder to edit as the light effected the other colours and limited hoe much I could move the levels on Photoshop. 

Light box and photographed 

Image 1

Image 2

Photographed

Here I have just photographed my work (image 3) to see how the colours would turn out as when I create my 3D paper illustrations I have to photograph then so I wanted to see what happens to a flat image. I think the photo did more justice to the image but has came out a bit fuzzy as I couldn't hold the camera perfectly still. 

Image 3

Scanned

As my images were flat I decided to see what they looked like scanned in and if I could get ant lighting of the scanner. Image 4 was just scanned with tracing paper behind and with the scanner lid open to see if would pick up any lighting, this wasn't as successful as I had hoped. So for my next scan (image 5) I added the coloured card behind to make the light go from bright to dim. After looking at my other images I have found that the scanned images with the coloured card behind probably works the best but sadly none of my photos or scans look as good as the real image. This a problem I am still finding with my work and am trying to solve. So before deciding witch image I use for my Olio final I want to print 3 of them out and see what happens then edit them a bit more in Photoshop so my image is to the highest quality I can currently achieve. 

Image 4

Image 5