Forum: Photography

Subject: Blacklight Special

leighp1 opened this issue on Mar 17, 2001 · 8 posts

leighp1 posted Sat, 17 March 2001 at 6:49 PM

I took my dad's advice and messed around with some cigarettes and the f stops and this is one thing that I came up with. I took the image into psp and added some color to it and it turned out looking like these were under a black light. Well at least that is what I thought it looked like.... Leigh

Marshmallowpie posted Sun, 18 March 2001 at 4:19 AM

Looks like they're under UV light to me :) Nice...and different.

Colm_Jackson posted Sun, 18 March 2001 at 6:48 AM

That's amazing...WOW! I've never even heard of a 'Black' light?

theFOG posted Sun, 18 March 2001 at 1:32 PM

A black light is the light on the edge of the visable spectrum. Usually refers to an ulta violet light, not normaly visable to the human eye but causes a chemical reaction in some minerals, dyes and other substances causing them to give off a florecent light or glow. Black light posters were very popular in the 60's. They glowed in the dark when you shined a black light on them. the F.O.G.

theFOG posted Sun, 18 March 2001 at 1:38 PM

Attached Link: http://www.worldwideposters.com/black-a.htm

http://www.worldwideposters.com/black-a.htm a link if your interested in some examples.

Tammy posted Mon, 19 March 2001 at 1:08 AM

Wow Leigh you made a photo of a cigarette look interesting you are getting good at this :)

Syyd posted Tue, 20 March 2001 at 6:15 PM

ohhhhhhh thats amazing detail! Leight I am enjoying every one of your latest works, and Fog thanks...its given birth to a slew of ideas.

Marshmallowpie posted Tue, 20 March 2001 at 6:30 PM

UV lights always give me a headache! Being a LaserForce freak I'm around them a lot though....