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Another attempt at the houseplant UV fluorescence scene

After seeing the problems with the earlier attempt at this as shown in the previous post I had another go at this and managed to get a better end result. This is what I managed to do:

Daylight colour photo of the houseplant scene
UV Fluorescence view of the scene

What doesn’t show here is the large amounts of dust and dirt fluorescing – it took ages to remove this in Photoshop! The UV fluorescence view was built up by ‘painting with light’, using a UV torch, a segment of the scene one at a time. This produced 24 images that had to be superimposed in Photoshop – this screenshot shows this work:

Showing the Photoshop layers used to build the image

I like to try different methods of blending the UV fluorescence and daylight colour images together to get a more striking result – here are some of them:

Blend 2
Blend 3

Blend 4
Blend 5

and finally:

The last blend (and my favourite!)