{"id":7810,"date":"2023-02-02T18:46:20","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T18:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7810"},"modified":"2023-02-02T18:46:20","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T18:46:20","slug":"making-a-start-in-ultra-violet-fluorescence-photography-3-with-glass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7810","title":{"rendered":"Making a start in Ultra Violet Fluorescence photography &#8211; 3 with glass"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>One of my daughters has a small collection of uranium (and other) glass that fluoresces under Ultra-Violet (UV) light. I tried photographing some of these to see how they look:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"273\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/F23_0126r1F23_0128r1F23_0130r1-273x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7811\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/F23_0126r1F23_0128r1F23_0130r1-273x600.jpg 273w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/F23_0126r1F23_0128r1F23_0130r1-137x300.jpg 137w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/F23_0126r1F23_0128r1F23_0130r1-68x150.jpg 68w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/F23_0126r1F23_0128r1F23_0130r1.jpg 364w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 273px) 85vw, 273px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A composite showing the base of an oil lamp in white light and the glass strongly fluorescing green under UV<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The glass in the above image fluoresces green quite strongly making it probably uranium glass. However, we are not so sure about the glass below &#8211; it may be manganese or selenium.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"image-compare-viewer\" ><br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/F23_0138r1r2-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Vase in white light\"><br>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/F23_0138r1r2F23_0142r1-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"Vase in white light with UV fluorescence superimposed\"><br>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Similarly, we are not sure of the glass below that glows orange. The second view is a composite with a version containing tonic water which fluoresces blue:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"image-compare-viewer\" ><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/F23_0146r1-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"orange fluorescent glass\" \/><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/F23_0149r1F23_0146r1-scrF23_0146r1mask-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"orange fluorescent glass with tonic water\" \/><br \/><\/div>\n<p>This example below is a clear glass that fluoresces well in ultra-violet (note the alignment of the two images isn&#8217;t perfect!)<\/p>\n<div class=\"image-compare-viewer\" ><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/F23_0173r1-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"clear wine glass\" \/><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/F23_0170r1-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"fluorescing wine glass\" \/><br \/><\/div>\n\n\n<p>But pour in some tonic water enabled me to create this composite view:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/F23_0172r1F23_0170r1F23_0173r1-fl-400x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/F23_0172r1F23_0170r1F23_0173r1-fl-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/F23_0172r1F23_0170r1F23_0173r1-fl-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/F23_0172r1F23_0170r1F23_0173r1-fl-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/F23_0172r1F23_0170r1F23_0173r1-fl.jpg 533w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Composite showing glass glowing green and tonic water glowing blue under UV light<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my daughters has a small collection of uranium (and other) glass that fluoresces under Ultra-Violet (UV) light. I tried photographing some of these to see how they look: The glass in the above image fluoresces green quite strongly making it probably uranium glass. However, we are not so sure about the glass below &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7810\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Making a start in Ultra Violet Fluorescence photography &#8211; 3 with glass&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,3,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fluorescence","category-photography","category-ultra-violet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7810"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7830,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions\/7830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}