Wednesday, June 22, 2011

[VIS, UV] Helianthus: new vs old flower made visible using ultraviolet light

While I was shooting flowers at Herrmanshof, Weinheim park, I noticed that in UV the ageing of a flower can be easily detected, wheras in visible light, they look alike.

UV sensitive camera, Cerco 94mm lens, Baader-U resp. UV/IR Cut filter; standardized UV palette using my ReflectionDisc

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Standardized reflected false UV "colors" according to the previously described "UV color palette" related to wavelength:


VIS:


UV:


These yellow Helianthus tuberosus flowers on teh left side, clearly show age differences: top is in male stage (early), bottom is in female stage (late) but in UV things get much clearer! So I'm sure our beesies knew that way before us...


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