Photographing Black Light?`

[eli000]

anyone know how i would go about photographing black light?
:)
thanx

[PineCone]

wow... 4 years have passed ... and no reply at all...

[TooManyHobbies]

I was just about to post a thread on black light. I've done this in video, but never in photos. I mixed black and regular light to give a white person a more intence and somewhat tanner look. Has anyone else tried mixed black and regular lighting?

[turbotony]

I will try it know that the idea has somehow hit me....DOH!!!

[PhotosGuy]

I mixed black and regular light to give a white person a more intence and somewhat tanner look. Has anyone else tried mixed black and regular lighting? Be sure that you have the right kind of UV light, or you'll be tanning his retinas, too!

[MiG82]

Black lights should be fine for people. Don't use germicidal UV tubes :)

Do you want to photograph the UV light or the fluorescence created by it? It makes a significant difference.

[BillsBayou]

I'm thinking that using a UV filter would be the opposite approach :)

[TooManyHobbies]

I will try it know that the idea has somehow hit me....DOH!!!

Let's see your results. I still haven't gotten around to it and I've had the idea for years.

BillsBayou-I'm thinking that using a UV filter would be the opposite approach

A UV filter shouldn't cancel the effect since you are getting light in the normal spectrum reflected back.

[MiG82]

A UV filter shouldn't cancel the effect since you are getting light in the normal spectrum reflected back.

That depends on whether you're photographic fluorescence or actual UV. Even without a filter UV will be hard because the lens glass absorbs the UV. Pentax used to make a lens with quartz elements for UV photography.