BLACK LIGHT

Back in May, a body painter offered to collaborate with me for a photo shoot with airbrushed models. This offer gave me a reason to finally experiment with black light photography, which I’ve wanted to try for years now.

After searching the Web, I found that black light photography is a rather technically complicated process. The main obstacle of black light photography is the light source. Generally, there are two main options for UV lighting: ultraviolet constant lighting and ultraviolet strobe lighting.

The problem with ultra violet constant lighting is low light output. For example: even when using a pair of 400W UV lights, it would require relatively high ISO and low shutter speeds, that wouldn’t work with my old Nikon D5100.