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Fluorescent Mineral Photography
Tips, hints, and tricks to take photographs of fluorescent minerals under UV light.
It assumes you are shooting a night scene – perhaps by candlelight, or fireworks (that’s what camera designers target in low-light applications; they probably don’t even know fluorescent minerals exist). I know one person who uses the toilet seat cover as the base for his specimens; it produces a subtle dark blue background – very pleasing (but I bet he cleans it real good before each photo session). RAW allows you to “develop” the picture in software by adjusting brightness, saturation, white balance, etc until the resulting image matches your specimen to the best of your ability.
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