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Not sure if this is appropriate here, but the pics were taken in UV, so I'll give it a shot.

 

Here's a number of photos I took with my b/w-uv Canon EOS 6D, internal X330C-filter, external S8612, EL-Nikkor 105mm on extension tube, full-spectrum Yongnuo YN560-III handheld, triggered by remote-trigger on the camera. I was aiming to illuminate only a small part of the object, so quite a number of misses until I got the desired effect. The camera was also handheld, on purpose, I didn't want to have tack-shart photos, but a bit of blurriness, perhaps dreamlike, where you only see bits and those are not quite clear.

 

Processing, apart from cropping to square format, was minimal, just here and there reducing the highlights a bit. I did try to invert them as well, turning low-key into high-key, but most of them didn't work, just one or two, but the mood is completely different, of course. (the white snow-drop is not an inversion of the black one, it's from a slightly different angle)

 

I am not sure how different the plants would have looked like, had I used a VIS-camera, but I think that UV did accentuate the surface structure - it usually does, after all :smile:

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Interesting. This is something different than what I am used to see here. UV does accentuate superficial features of plants (and pretty much anything), especially on leaves, since it is quickly absorbed. IR does the opposite, as you surely know.

 

These images remind me a bit of Japanese Haiku poems, short and simple. Just bits, details, and nothing else.

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Interesting.

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IR does the opposite, as you surely know.

 

Thanks. Yes, I did plenty of flowers in IR, and many of them details as well, but the IR ones are automatically high-key for me, because everything has a dreamy look. UV is perhaps more the nightmare dreamy look.

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I quite like the first and last (6th in the sequence) leaf photographs. They are compositionally pleasing.

 

The sequence is a good exploration of square minimalism.

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Nice collection Stephan, thanks for showing

The sequence is a good exploration of square minimalism.

Excellent series of images. Its great to see some excellent art in UV.

 

Thanks everybody. As hinted at in one of the posts, I've taken the liberty of also posting some IR-photos in this thread: https://www.ultravioletphotography.com/content/index.php/topic/4434-minimalism-20/

 

This concludes my foray into the world of artsy photos :smile:

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These images remind me a bit of Japanese Haiku poems, short and simple. Just bits, details, and nothing else.

 

Some time after I'd taken the photos in the IR-thread (and a year or more after I'd taken similar VIS-photos), I ran across the book "Haiku fotografieren" by Martin Timm, which has some similar photos, even though many of his are full of tiny twigs and stems, with only one of them focused, so a bit too much going on for my taste (some examples here: https://timmfotografien.de/albums/haiku-studies/ )

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Thanks for that link, Stephan. The Haiku inspiration by Timm is quite interesting.

 

Those photos and yours above remind me of some of the work Birna and I and others made a few years ago using very shallow lenses repurposed from X-Ray machines and TVs. They were in the range f/.75 - f/1.5, or so, if I am remembering correctly. The effect these lenses produced was to have a very very soft photo with only a small amount of focused area to catch the eye.

 

It was quite a fad for a while, but I haven't seen much of it recently. (But I have not been looking for it recently either.)

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Thanks for that link, Stephan. The Haiku inspiration by Timm is quite interesting.

 

Those photos and yours above remind me of some of the work Birna and I and others made a few years ago using very shallow lenses repurposed from X-Ray machines and TVs. They were in the range f/.75 - f/1.5, or so, if I am remembering correctly. The effect these lenses produced was to have a very very soft photo with only a small amount of focused area to catch the eye.

 

It was quite a fad for a while, but I haven't seen much of it recently. (But I have not been looking for it recently either.)

 

Thanks. Yes, I was amazed to find the book containing images similar to the ones I had made years before, goes to show that a lot of people do the same things.

 

Er, you're talking of something like the Rodenstock XR-Heligon 100mm f/1.5, perhaps :cool: I've got one of those, and it's quite possible that a some of the photos here (from 2018) were taken with it: http://www.photo-cha..._post=reduziert . Although I've found that using the Canon EF 85mm f/1.2 with extension tubes gives very similar images, so perhaps I used this combination.

 

I presume that you used them for UV-shots? This is one my ToDo-list.

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I have not myself tried the XR-Heligons for UV. I think that on one of the Old Nikongear UV boards, someone made that experiment. Probably Birna?? But I do not recall the outcome.

 

Thus we will look forward to *you* trying your XR in UV to give us all an update on how it performs. :grin: :grin: :grin:

 

Thank you for the link to your work using extremely shallow DOF. Very cool stuff !! I have always like that kind of photo because at first it often appears to be an abstraction. Then the eye finds the small area of focus and the secret is revealed.

 

I have a very unusual XR photo which I should try to find to show you.

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Found them. These are not UV/IR, but the point is to show that some of these old unusual lenses can produce some strange and interesting effects. Look for subjects which pass light through or reflect light strongly like shiny metal, glass marbles, bubbles, etc.

 

 

I was photographing a Titleist golf ball with the XR and found that my particular copy of this lens created the most wonderful aberrations and flares.

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An alternate version.

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Some green glass marbles with the XR.

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One of my favorites. I gave it a frame today.

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And finally, this one I call Strange Lights over Lake Perrier.

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Thus we will look forward to *you* trying your XR in UV to give us all an update on how it performs. :grin: :grin: :grin:

 

Will try to do ASAP :smile:

 

Found them. These are not UV/IR, but the point is to show that some of these old unusual lenses can produce some strange and interesting effects. Look for subjects which pass light through or reflect light strongly like shiny metal, glass marbles, bubbles, etc.

 

Wow, definitely love the first one - and of course the last one with the UFOs :wink:

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Imagine yourself on a distant planet, the first human to set foot there. It's pitch dark and you've only got a smal torchlight. So, you can only catch glimpses of the surroundings, and can't ever be sure whether you're seeing a plant or an animal, won't know until it's too late whether it is herbivore, carnivore or omnivore, etc.

 

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lukaszgryglicki

Great, regarding the post story, I was sometimes thinking about dark dark UV-C world.

Imagine you are a creature that only sees in UV-C and you land on Earth.

It's totally dark there, and you have a UV-C torch - if you shine it - almost everything is black, there is a fog everywhere, any light source can only penetrate maximum of tens of meters and even then - you can only have diffuse light, no shadows, just gloom, black oily rocks, black plants and eternal fog. And you light seems to kill every single creature you met.

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1 minute ago, lukaszgryglicki said:

Great, regarding the post story, I was sometimes thinking about dark dark UV-C world.

Imagine you are a creature that only sees in UV-C and you land on Earth.

It's totally dark there, and you have a UV-C torch - if you shine it - almost everything is black, there is a fog everywhere, any light source can only penetrate maximum of tens of meters and even then - you can only have diffuse light, no shadows, just gloom, black oily rocks, black plants and eternal fog. And you light seems to kill every single creature you met.

 

Thanks, perhaps I just ought to change "human" to "member of your race" 😀

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lukaszgryglicki

I should also add that your UV-C light causes surrounding air to smell like a coming storm.

 

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