This week I tried my hand at creating monochromatic Light and turning a painted figure into seemingly one color. I decided I would throw these models into my LED light box and distort the colors by changing my LEDs to red, green and blue light. But then beyond that I decided I would try the same thing with my LED PAR lamp that I have. I chose RGB because those are the base colors and I felt like creating a mixture of colors wouldn’t be beneficial in making these objects look like they were one color.

For my objects I chose a white figure, a green figure, a figure that had multiple colors, and then a figure that used metallic paints. I felt like these figures would give me a different range in colors and allow me to see how the light reflected off of them. This is them under a standard desk light.

With the red light we can see that it doesn’t take well to the white paint or the verdigris effect on the metallic figure. Although with the PAR the verdigris doesn’t light up. It looks like the red light really washes out all of the paint on the model but I can still see that the skin on the blue figure is different from the rest of the model.

With the painted figure you can see the contrast between all of the different colors of paint for both the light box and par. There must be something with the green light that doesn’t let it absorb well with the painted colors. Although the figure that was already green shines really bright under the LEDs and it looks all one color with out any shadows.

Now we take a look at the blue light! Look how bright the white figure is under this light! It reflected the blue light more then the green or red. But what’s interesting to me is how the metallic figure looks. It seems to really have brightened up under this light compared to the others. And I think it’s interesting how the top of the green figure is brighter then the rest of the model. That is not something that we haven’t seen with the other colors of the light. Its weird to me that it would reflect different because the RGB diodes in the LEDs are in almost the exact same place. Maybe it had to do with how my camera perceived the light.

This was a very interesting experiment to try to create monochromatic lighting conditions. I don’t know if it necessarily worked but it was neat to see how the different colors of light interact with the paint of the models. I did notice that the pictures of the models in my light box looked nicer but that’s because they were surrounded with light versus having just one light source with the par lamp.