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[norsegirl]

As I said in my last post, tonight's experiments went extremely well. I tried layering the clear purple over white, and while it still isn't what one would describe as "royal purple", it is still definitely, visibly purple now. I imagine it will look even better under natural light.

The long skinny beads are more of my Viking household series (house colours are red, black and a bit of gold). Nice because they are quicker to bang out than the spotty beads I've been doing. Bad because I'm sure the striping and marvering isn't period (maybe each individually, but I don't think I've seen them combined). If you have evidence of textured, multicoloured beads, I'd love to see your sources.

I'm really impressed to death with my triangular bead. It is really, very obviously a triangle, and not even a wonky triangle either. It's a little small, but I'm not going to get picky.




As per Lunesse's suggestion, I am experimenting with different ways to photograph my beads. Photography without flash has been a wash as I have not been steady enough to get a good shot (even with the camera propped on the table for support). I have tried adjusting levels in photoshop (cheating and using "auto levels" rather than fiddling manually I admit), and while it improves the image compared to the unaltered one, the photographs on darker backgrounds still seem to work better.

Today's beads for example:


Yesterday's beads:

Source image


Levels adjusted


The image I actually used.

As you can see, the colours are definitely brighter (and truer to life - you'll just have to trust me on that one) on the darker background. It can be seen best with the green bead and the purple beads from today's shot. Even in the level adjusted pics the purple beads don't have so much as a hint of purple, and the green bead really isn't that dark.

While the suggestion is noted and Lunesse's pics are AWESOME, I just can't get it to work for me.

Comments

[hel_ana]

BTW, I do like the swirly black and white bead you mentioned yesterday.

And I'm so glad/jealous that the tudor ladies are starting up again.

[kes-zone.livejournal.com]

The red, yellow black combinations are really striking! Very cool.