Tuesday, March 30, 2010
UV reveals Tactile Structures
(both shots from testing a new fast lens designed for UV-A 300-400nm)
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Phalaenopsis Orchid UV:
Here a VIS image:
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
Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds Episode 3 March 30, 9pm GMT on BBC One
Episode 3 , the last one, will be "Off the Scale" about things way to huge or way to little for us to see with the unaided eye.
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
[UV, FL] Enhancing the visibility of fossil cephalopods soft tissue structures
Should someone be interested in the paper, the full title is:
"A new look at fossil cephalopods", NEAL L. LARSON, ROBERT W. MORTON, PETER L. LARSON AND UWE BERGMANN in
Tanabe, K., Shigeta, Y., Sasaki, T. & Hirano, H. (eds.) 2010. Cephalopods - Present and Past, Tokai University Press, Tokyo, p. 303-314.
Images (c) Neal L Larson and Dr Klaus Schmitt
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Another example of the same technique, shots I did with a squid fossil I have here from the Upper Cretaceous period, ca 90 million years old.
Visible light image:
UV stimulated visible fluorescence:
multispectral remapped
There is a follow up to this one HERE.
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
Friday, March 26, 2010
My UV shots on BBC's "Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds" Episode 2
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Sanvitalia ("Creeping Zinnia") in VIS + UV:
Rudbeckia ("Black eyed Susan") in VIS + UV:
Petunia in VIS + UV:
Potentilla recta ("Sulfur ´Cinquefoil") in VIS + UV:
Well, of course I feel honored that they gave me a chance to show my work, thus allowing the viewers of that series to understand, that there is so much more (beauty) beyond our very limited visual range!
Further on the technical side to contribute to the HDTV filming by finding suitable UV sensitive HDTV-cameras and suitable light sources, plus later then using my special lenses + filters for the actual filming of the scenes. That was all a great challenge but big fun working with such a professional team!
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
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds, Episode 2 on BBC iPlayer
Here the link to the video only viewable in the UK unfortunately. If you are on a server in the UK and you're away from home, you could of course use your Virtual Private Network (VPN) to watch, so you won't miss it...
This is the link to the HDTV version of it.
That second episode leads us to the world of ultraviolet light (where I have contributed), infrared and to the stars.
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
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Richard Hammond's "Invisible Worlds" Episode 1 on BBC iPlayer
Here the link to the video only viewable in the UK unfortunately. If you are on a server in the UK and you're away from home, you could of course use your Virtual Private Network (VPN) to watch, so you won't miss it...
I was amazed how well the production was made and the topics which have been carefully selected.
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
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
More News on "Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds"
Here is a preview video of the 1st series only viewable in the UK unfortunately.
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
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Cleo Butterfly on Rudbeckia Flower
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This is the visual image (VIS):
And here now the simulated tetrachromatic vision image using (XBV2 Filter):
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
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Carl Zeiss UV-Planar 4/60mm
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A lens made for UV Photography and UV enlarging which consists of quartz and special glass. Symmetrical Gauss design, 6 lenses in 4 groups. Color corrected for 320-450nm, transmits down to 300nm. Full data is here.
If anyone wonders about the lens coating: Zeiss has applied a special lens coating which transmits UV light, thus it does not look like a normal multicoated lens.
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
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds begins 16th March on BBC1
BBC Press Office announced March 3rd that (quote) Richard Hammond's Invisible Worlds begins 16th March, 3 episodes @ 9pm on BBC1 (unquote).
Just got the confirmation that episode 2 + 3 will be aired the following weeks later at the same time (March 23 + 30). My contribution will be seen in episode 2 on March 23, "Out of Sight". ((quote from BBC)) In Out Of Sight, Richard explores the extraordinary wonders of the world beyond the visible spectrum.
The human eye is a remarkable piece of precision engineering. But beyond the narrow range of light that makes up the familiar colours of the rainbow is a vast spectrum of light that is entirely unseen. In fact, the visible world is just the tiniest sliver of a far greater reality.
Now, through the use of ground-breaking new imaging technologies and state-of-the-art cameras, Richard Hammond takes a journey beyond the visible spectrum, seeing the world, quite literally, in a whole new light.
...
Closer to the ground, ultraviolet cameras transform the view of an ordinary flower garden, capturing a dizzy array of hidden patterns and colours – an insect's eye view. ((unquote))
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