Friday, September 7, 2007

Rudbeckia and the UV LED

I'm still mumbling around about making use of UV-LEDs for Uv photography.

So this time the target was a nice Rudbeckia flower which is known to sport some otherwise invible sharp UV pattern. The macro lens used was a calibrated 130mm lens.

As light source a 375nm UV LED was used here and no other modifications were done, not even a filter was used.




The second shot I used a filtered 365nm UV LED, also no lens filter and the colors were somewhat adjusted to taste.



So I would say, that there is quite some potential in these UV sources and thus will be studied further.

Stay tuned, more will follow on that fascinating subject...

More info on this very interesting field may be found on my site http://www.pbase.com/kds315/uv_photos>