New guy: Johan

[Johan]

Hello! A brief intro from me about me. I'm a Dutch guy in his 40s living in England with 2 children, technology marketer by day but photographer at night. My main thing is macro (see http://extreme-macro.co.uk/) but I dabble a bit with other types of photography too. This looks like a very good specialist UV site, high signal:noise, just the way I like it. I know very little about UV photography, all I'm hoping to do is find a way to do UV fluorescence. Look forward to learning and hopefully one day contributing.

[igoriginal]

Welcome aboard, Johan! Glad to have you join our growing family!

 

I know that this site will be the go-to source for UV photography education, as I myself am a fledgling "UV photographer", and still have MUCH to learn. However, being here (although for only a short time, thus far) has already expanded my knowledge of UV photography by leaps and bounds!

 

Glad to have you here.

[nfoto]

Welcome, Johan. UV fluorescence is always an interesting subject for all UV enthusiasts. Thus I trust you'll find discussions in this topic interesting and hopefully stimulating as well.

 

I've done UV fluorescence with either a blacklight (Sylvania) or a UV LED (365 nm Nichia torch). Both approaches yield good results although the Nichia torch makes lighting the scene easier. You need to work in a dark room and use a UV-blocking filter over the lens.

[JCDowdy]

Welcome Johan and greetings from sunny Tennessee, land of Elvis and Jack Daniels! :D

- John

[Andrea B.]

Welcome, Johan. I hope you enjoy the site.

There is a great deal of UV information which I have summarized in and posted in this section:

Stickies in the UV Stickies and Gear Lists

Those will help you get started.

 

For UV-induced Visible Fluorescence ("black light photography", you need two things added to your standard photographic kit:

• a good filter which blocks both UV and IR and passes only Visible wavelengths
  
• a source of UV illumination
  

[Alex H]

Welcome, Johan. I hope you enjoy the site.

There is a great deal of UV information which I have summarized in and posted in this section:

Stickies in the UV Stickies and Gear Lists

Those will help you get started.

 

For UV-induced Visible Fluorescence ("black light photography", you need two things added to your standard photographic kit:

• a good filter which blocks both UV and IR and passes only Visible wavelengths
  
• a source of UV illumination
  

 

And high quality eye and skin protection!

[Alex H]

I have done a lot of UV-induced visible fluorescence photography over past years, check my web site.

[Johan]

Thank you very much everyone! I've been eying this Nichia LED for a couple of weeks now but still doing the research necessary before jumping in and buying some items - it is reassuring that this UV forum talks about it too! Same story with the filters, I have a couple of yellow variants I'm playing with but there seems to be a good ebay man who can do me the more exotic filter(s) that I think I will probably need. Superb work Oleksandr, I wonder if I know you from pm.net at all.

 

-Johan

[Alex H]

I have an account at photomacrography.net, but never posted anything there. I recognized your avatar, though.