OH and I have been experimenting. Red lights are apparently the way forward for horse-stable lighting and there is a science in this, all of which I have read and not understood (says Michael Faraday’s 5th great niece!)
Anyway, last night we rooted around the house looking for red material and I found OH’s orange woollen hat which I put over the light only for it to turn a very credible red. So more rooting around and I found a large fluorescent orange hood in a drawer from a coat long gone. We put it around the light and, again, it looked very red. Perfect. OH cut up the hood and covered the light.
And later on that night, I stuck the red light onto the container. It looks much brighter than it actually was. So now we have a Red Light District with some distinctly dodgy characters living there!
This morning and everything was fine. All happy. Buckets finished and the gentlemen (** cough **) were tucking into the haynets.
The ladies, of course, as Victorian etiquette demands, had retired to the drawing-room, or in this case the containers.
They seemed very happy inside and stayed there for most of the morning.
The little boys did their own thing.
And OH and I are still experimenting. I drove over to Turriefield for their selection of red plastic bags some of which we added to the lights. It gave it a better hue and nearer to the colour science says horses find easiest to see in at night. Something about wavelengths being above 620 nm but we don’t have a way of measuring any of this so this is just a stab in the dark.
Wow . . . that is so impressive.
Lovely to see the oldies relaxing and clearly enjoying the protection which the containers offer. When the winter weather gets particularly disgusting I hope you will be able to relax a bit (and maybe sleep better) knowing they can all get out of the wind & rain.
Whatever you had to pawn for the groundwork and containers was well worth it
Thank you. I sold my soul (though I probably wasn’t using it very much!)
Excellent! Well done!
Red light district??? Hilarious.
Oh this Lee swatch book brings back great memories of working for my step-dad who was a theatrical lighting designer. He loved the clear colors of Lee over the US Rosco brand. Love your Lee106 Red Light. You can also try Lee 301 for a lovely blue effect.
Your old Lee Filters book brought back memories of lighting many a theatre production!
Theatrical lighting “gel” is a good choice for your lights, as it’s designed to hold up to heat from lights much hotter than yours. (No melting.) Theaters and concert halls often have scrap pieces of gel, which they might give you for free or for very little. (Also, the lightening designer is an expert at what the color of lights do to vision, if you get a chance to talk with one.)