{"id":8956,"date":"2024-09-02T17:28:33","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T17:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8956"},"modified":"2024-09-02T17:28:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T17:28:33","slug":"uv-fluorescence-a-quick-experiment-with-a-terrarium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8956","title":{"rendered":"UV fluorescence – a quick experiment with a terrarium"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My wife has a large, almost spherical, glass bottle or bowl that she uses as a terrarium. She suggested that I should use this as a subject. So, after completing the insect photography, I gave it a try.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is nothing sophisticated about the technique. I used a small LED daylight torch for the daylight exposure by poking it through the neck of the bottle and wiggling it about. I used the same technique for the UV fluorescence exposure. Both the basic exposures were nothing special, especially as the glass was a bit misty and grubby but when I blended the exposures in Photoshop I got something more interesting. Here are the results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Terrarium with daylight torch exposure<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Terrarium with UV torch exposure<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

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And this is the blended result:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Terrarium image formed by blending the previous two images<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

A bit more colourful…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My wife has a large, almost spherical, glass bottle or bowl that she uses as a terrarium. She suggested that I should use this as a subject. So, after completing the insect photography, I gave it a try. There is nothing sophisticated about the technique. I used a small LED daylight torch for the daylight … Continue reading “UV fluorescence – a quick experiment with a terrarium”<\/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":[19,141,129,52,3,94,131,128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-close-up","category-comparison-slider","category-fluorescence","category-garden","category-photography","category-staffordshire","category-tests-and-trials","category-ultra-violet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956","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=8956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8962,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8956\/revisions\/8962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}