Hey!
Have you ever wondered if you could use an UV lamp as an external light source for photography?
Well, yes you could, if you don't mind one small caveat...
Everything is pretty much red... :)
You might think you can change the white balance in post...
...but...
...you'll ultimately have to settle for pretty much black and white images!
(The second photo is the exact same image, only with white balance corrected.)
This is the stuff of spy movies with those night vision goggles and all. The idea is to flush the scene with invisible UV-light, so that only the camera sensor can detect the light bouncing back from the objects, and then process the image into white balanced format (or even one that's almost entirely green) that is easier to see with plain eyes. The original red image is harder for our eyes, since our eyes have adapted to seeing green and blue, the daylight colours better. Reducing all the colours and making the photo monochrome will actually help us see it more clearly.
Okay, that's my 2 steemcents for science. See you guys with another photo soon! :)
P.S. Can you see how our snake Kiemurainen has created some remarkably visible tunnels and routes into its peat mixture. She did it all in the same 30 minute period I was in the grocery today. Cool! :)
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In chemistry, we use the UV lamp as on one of the tools in detection of some organic compounds. This is because some of them are not visible to the clear eye at the visible range of the electromagnetic spectrum. Nice tip. You should have added science as a tag. IMO.
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How are you so smart, damn I didn't know anything of that :D
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He's a scientist.
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Oh, that makes sense. I'm smart too when I sleep.
I have so many ideas and genius theories. But I forget about them when I wake up :(
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We might just share that trait.
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Well, am surprised you know some science. Turpsy has said what I would have loved to say but anyway, there's an element of science in the post. The UV lamps are very useful in science.
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There's a whole lot of science behind photography actually, from why certain compositions work better than others (math, art theory and psychology) to how lenses work, or how light behaves in different conditions (physics), developing films (chemistry), and more. Not sure if I'm sciencey enough to teach people about those things, but I might try it some day. :)
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Good... I wanted to say that. You can make up a science post some day. I'm impressed
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Are you a photographer?
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Yep. :)
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Actually i am quite amazed that you made a red photo using uv light and then changed it around so it looked like that, i always trough night vision was a green light, i was unaware it was actually red light changed to look like green and blue, thank you for you two steem cents haha.
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Looks like how on a submarine when they go to battle stations and it all goes to red light lol.
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Excellent photo and a very good experiment that shows the possibilities for light design. Thank you @gamer00
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First pic with red and second with black light .
Nice captures .
Thanks
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Only one capture, to be correct.
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That was interesting, I think I will also try to play a little with some lights. To get some interesting effect.
:D
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The white balance correct still looks pretty good!
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@gamer00,
I feel like I saw a magic :O This is pretty cool! Need to find a UV Lamp! Excellent photography and tip friend!
Cheers~
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Cool info thank for sharing litle science, It would be awesome to see how Kiemurainen sees his terrarium with some type of thermal camera, when steem hit $1000 next project will be thermal photos? lol Best luck
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Excellent photography!
Images taken with ultraviolet light serve a number of artistic purposes.
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This is pretty good information about photography and film making. Thanks
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It gives a different look to the image :) scary look as i think
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apart from the night vision goggles, this one also is like seeing through the eyes of T800 from terminator :D
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very intresting!! our eyes can see visible light in a spectrum ranging from red to violet. Above violet is ultraviolet light, which we cannot see. It is also produced by mercury-vapor lamps,and that is what makes it used in the night vision camera
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Excellent shots and in UV lamp the shot looks even more cool and attractive, thanks for sharing such skillful photography with us, Stay blessed
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I'm totally agree with this sentence "One Photo Everyday is not just a challenge"
I will join now to your channel
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It's like a place to illustrate pictures, like in movies .. You are in a clear development my friend @gamer00
Continued creativity
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@gamer00 - Sir it looks like a charm... Red color photography made pure colors... Unbelievable Sir... First time I heard about this trick Sir... Nice you decided to share it...
+W+
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interesting post and picture ...
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Thanks for the photos and recommendation regarding using lighting for photography. see you with next post :)
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Excellent photography! Hope i will join this amazing community soon.
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@gamer00...bro really a nice photography..every day a you took very good locations and things to photograph..really your thoughts are awesome..thank you for sharing with us...have a nice day bro...
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Excellent photography @gamer00.
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Yeah, too much red is hard for my eyes))
But when you corrected the white colours it actually started to look very cool. Photo started to give some peculiar feeling.
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Excellent click and it has added a different look to the photo
-cheers-
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UV lamp can add the trick to such beautiful photography, then I need to find one such. Thank you and Have a great day.
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Excellent trick and experimentation with photography. Thanks
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Beautiful and this is really an epic photography.
Thank you @gamer00...steem on and stay blissful...
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That is indeed amazing !Nicely captured image buddy and had no idea of that part of the spy details ;)
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Thank you for posting dear @gamer00
What an awesome photography there with the use of U.V lamp as an external source perfect lighting it create
I was wondering at first for sure but the second pic which you shared helped me to see the differences better ...it was pretty cool for me to see something like this
Thank you,Have a great day ahead.
Cheers.
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The read one looks so scary like I'm watching a horror movie with Freddy.
White filter gave a very unique vague pink colour.
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Thanks for the very important info about it!!
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Nice capture in red ultraviolet and black too
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great post. thanks for sharing
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