In the behind the scenes images I took to highlight how to be a student photographer in lockdown, you can see me setting up a lumens in my garden. I chose to try creating a lumen so I could experiment with more materials which I can easily do from home. I used a leaf, some small butterfly charms and a strip of negatives. Plants are commonly used in lumens as they react with the chemicals to give more interesting colours and variations. I then also used negatives as I wanted to see how clearly it projected what was on the negative onto the paper. I thought that a lumen could be interesting to use as a border around my final images as a symbol of what I did during lockdown, and how I stayed creative. I placed my items on the photographic paper and attached a clipboard to keep everything in place. I then left this in the sun in my garden for around 4 hours.
After around 4 hours, I took the clipboard back inside and removed the items to reveal my lumen. The main part of the lumen is the big leaf in the centre. The leaf created deep red/orange colour. The smaller butterflies came out pink/purple/blue. This colour variation made the lumen much more interesting to look at. At the top of the paper is where I placed my film strip. I think this would have needed more time as it came out very faint. However, looking closer at it, you can slightly see what the image was meant to be, which I find really interesting. As I do not have access to fixer, I have placed my lumen in a dark area so that the image doesn't change too drastically.
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