UV: photography in a different light

[abortretryfail]

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I put together a UV light setup about a few years ago. but it's been
sitting in the corner gathering dust due to a damaged switched.

finally said to heck with it and tore the switch out and crossed the wires.

first try with my hand...



my daughters saw me experimenting and got all excited about it. I wound up
painting their hands as well...







all photos as is direct from the camera except for resizing and text added
in through photoshop

[koto]

XD hehee never thought of doin this hehee, di na kailangan special filters or IR convertion sa cam sensor?

[nirdle_phogi]

Nindot sad ni dah.. Mas mo.nindot pa jud tali bro kun daghan kaayo colors murag sinulog ba, colorful.

[Tin_Tin]

cool lagi ni...!

[abortretryfail]

XD hehee never thought of doin this hehee, di na kailangan special filters or IR convertion sa cam sensor?

nope... and that's the nice part about it. any camera works fine.

Nindot sad ni dah.. Mas mo.nindot pa jud tali bro kun daghan kaayo colors murag sinulog ba, colorful.

unfortunately that's all the colors I had at the time.
still have to look for more. problem is not all the colors
I bought reacted with the UV

cool lagi ni...!

thanks!... now if I can only find a willing victim for
a full body shoot

[fritzd]

actually this is still visible light photography.. hehehe! nag-induce lang ka ug optical fluorescence from UV excitation into a fluorescent material .. hehehe! =) input excitation EM wave kay UV then output emitted kay Visible light. =) awesome shots though! hehe

[willlu]

wowow
nice bro
what light u use?

[tatakalz]

very lovely...nice setting master....

[abortretryfail]

...what light u use?

ultraviolet florescent lights in a housing with diffuser on a lightstand

very lovely...

thanks
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tried adapting my flash to get something close to ultraviolet light
as an experiment before tinkering with bigger studio strobes...



didn't quite get there but at least the paint reacts to it... oh well

[abortretryfail]

was finally able to experiment with this further...



invited some of my students and a few friends over to Jon Unson's studio
to play around with this

everybody helped out with the bodypainting

for another exposure capturing more of the "avatar skin" tone...