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Plant Scene in UV Fluorescence

A few posts ago I showed a scene of some plants by our back door in Ultra Violet (UV) fluorescence. I have recomposed the view to include plants and ornaments on a table and photographed this in UV fluorescence. Here are some of the results starting with a Daylight/UV fluorescence comparison:

View of the plant scene in daylight
View of the plant scene in UV fluorescence

To get the UV photo I ‘painted with light’ using a UV torch one segment at a time. These had to be blended in Photoshop. This next image is a screen shot showing the ‘layers’ (each image) in Photoshop – quite a few as you can see!:

The layers in Photoshop needed to produce the UV image

I also like to experiment with different methods of blending to see what the results are like. Some work better than others. Here are a selection using the comparison slider:

Blend method 1
Blend method 2

Blend method 3
Blend method 4

Blend method 5
With a border using detail from within the image

Can you determine which image segment I used to create the border?