Atelier Bonryu(E)
ultraviolet photography
Laboratory: Ultraviolet Photography
References for Ultraviolet Photography
Presently the ultraviolet (UV) photography does not seem to play a part in the photographic art differently from the digital infrared (IR) photography. Therefore, as far as I know there seems no practical guide of the UV photography for photographers both nationally and internationally. However, as the purposes of the UV photography are the researches of flowers and insects, the investigation of cultural resources, and the forensic investigations, and in these fields the UV photography is actively utilized, useful specialized references may be found in these fields. Actually as many photographers are interested in photogenic objects treated in the researches of flowers and insects we can find a lot of web sites concerned with the UV photography of these objects.
Two web sites cited at the page of the IR photography describe the UV photography both on the method and the photographs systematically. As for the web site written in Japanese the Fukuhara's page (morphological botany, plant photographs) gives a lot of information and among web sites in English the site by Bjørn Rørslett, "All You Ever Wanted to Know About Digital UV and IR Photography, But Could Not Afford to Ask" is very comprehensive and excellent one. In both the sites there are a lot of useful links and one can get various information through them. Fukuhara began the IR photography through his professional research work, botany, and proceeded to the UV photography but Rørslett takes the IR and the UV photographs as a professional photographer of the nature.
