light series 3 | effects on color & texture

in this series, four fabrics were selected--warm and cool colors with interesting textures--and place in each of four places: a harris teeter grocery store, the gift shop @ nc museum of art, the greensboro library, and my bedroom. for each space, the type of light source is recorded, along with the effects that the type of lighting had on the fabrics.

• harris teeter - metal halide (industrial)
• museum store - spot lights (halogen), fluorescent, LED string lighting
• greensboro library - fluorescent tubes (lens)
• bedroom - pink incandescent

after studying the fabrics under each light source, i determined that the metal halides were almost true to natural light, except that it contained a little bit of yellow that really changed the reds. the museum store had very warm lighting, an amber tone, that changed the fabrics more than the other light sources. the cool blue fabric became a warm grey in the museum store; the green fabric became gold. the lighting closest to natural lighting was that at the greensboro library. the pink lighting of the bedroom makes the blue fabric a very cool grey.

i like this fabric the most under harris teeter lighting--it's just slightly warmer than in the greensboro library.

amazing how light changes the color and texture of a fabric. the greensboro library lighting, again, is most like natural light, and textures are more apparent. under the pink bedroom lighting, this one becomes a 'racy' red.

this green certainly concocted some surprises--in the museum store and bedroom, it reflected 2 shades of gold. of course, it is easier to figure that the pink light in the bedroom mixed with the off-green creates an off-brown/gold. this is where i realized that the museum store lighting contained some red, perhaps reflections from the abundance of wood furniture.

amazing color changes with this red silk. under harris teeter lighting, it has a "sunset" appearance, reflecting bright gold to deep red. the texture show well under the HT light as well.