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Black Light Photography - EnglishBob - Jan 29, 2006

Has anyone done any black light photograpy? I recently saw a program of blacklight shots and suddenly feel the urge to try. So I went out today and bought lamps, blacklight bulbs, back drops and some flourescent paint and props to have a go.

Looking for some pointers before I start?

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Black Light Photography - shuttertalk - Jan 29, 2006

Ooo... interesting! This is new for me - I haven't heard of black light photography until you mentioned it.

An introduction here:
http://mywebpages.comcast.net/hmpi/Infrared/Articles/Ultraviolet/Uvphoto.htm

Apparently it's just photographing UV light -- just like doing IR photography, only a different wave length. You need a UV light source, and also a filter on the camera to filter out visible light.

I found a gallery...
http://www.pbase.com/tglass0000/tims_blacklight_gallery

Cool - post pics and let us know how you go!

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Black Light Photography - adam - Jan 29, 2006

Sounds interesting - the other side of the visible spectrum from IR
I've seen some nice UV shots before, funky.

Report back to us how you go

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Black Light Photography - Toad - Jan 29, 2006

Glad you pulled out the Tim Glass gallery link, Jules. I have been a big fan of his stuff for some time.

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Black Light Photography - Petographer - Jan 29, 2006

I've seen this before but now that I look at it again I'm inspired to give it a go.

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Black Light Photography - EnglishBob - Jan 30, 2006

That may of started out as blacklight, but it has had a very large dose of photoshop too would be my guess.

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