Category: Technical Photography (TP)

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Scientific Art Examination

Ultraviolet Photography: lighting

This post is all about lamps for UV photography. Studio Photography. UV Black light tubes If you work in a studio you will probably need just 2 UV fluorescent tubes. They are very cheap and you can mount them on any fixture for the normal visible light fluorescent tubes. Choose fixtures whose materials are not

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Scientific Art Examination

Radiography for Art

I don’t have radiography equipment. The x-ray tube is heavy and doesn’t fit into my lightweight-low-cost-Ryanair-approved luggage plan I adopted for my art examination service. And it would be a lot of regulation issues to transport and operate an X-ray tube in a number of different countries. Therefore, if the art to be examined could benefit from

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postage

Postage stamps: Technical Photography

As a kid, I used to collect stamps. Cleaning up my place I just found my little collection and I thought to give it a quick Technical Photography glance. Postage stamps are a form of art, no doubt about it. I recall how much I was fascinated by those little images. Technical examination of postage

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madder lake

Technical Photography of Madder Lake

Madder lake is reported in the literature to have a characteristic pinkish-orange UV fluorescence, both in microscopy cross-sections imaging [1] and UV Fluorescence Photography [4]. Madder lake is the only historical red lake known for showing UV fluorescence. So, its UV fluorescence allows its identification. Though, I never could observe any UV fluorescence in my madder

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Scientific Technical Photography

Interactive Photo Imaging by Moshe Caine

Sometime before Christmas, Moshe Caine, college professor of Photography, wrote me to ask if I were interested to contribute to his new work, a free electronic ibook for iPad: “Interactive photo imaging”, an interactive textbook for students of photography and interactive media. Of course, I was more than pleased and I provided some material regarding multispectral

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