A recent study of children in middle schools using UV photographic technology has shown how much sun damage can be inflicted early in life. At the University of Colorado, a team of researchers have ...

Have you ever heard someone talk about UV filters degrading or ruining image quality on digital cameras? This photo myth has been around for ages in the photography community, with pixel peepers — ...

When it comes to seeing in strange spectrums, David Prutchi is the guy you want to talk to. He’s taken pictures of rocks under long, medium and short UV light, he’s added thermal imaging to consumer ...

DIY web site Instructables details a simple method for rolling your own UV photography with a $5 startup cost (as opposed to the potential $3000 for professional UV equipment). To accomplish the UV ...

Human eyes see visible light, whose wavelength ranges between 400 and 750 nanometers (nm). To visualize anything lower than 400 nm, one can resort to the assistance of ultraviolet (UV) photography.

Lens companies spend a lot of money applying fancy coatings to their lenses for a variety of functions. Most of them do a great job of blocking UV light, which is great for traditional photography, ...

In a project titled "Ultraviolet Beauties," Brooklyn-based artist Cara Phillips used ultraviolet photography to expose underlying sun spots and other blemishes in people's faces that the human eye can ...

Back in the film photography era, converting a camera to infrared was pretty straight forward. You put in some infrared film and put on an infrared filter and you were in business. With digital ...

If you want to shoot photographs of various fluorescent UV-related phenomena, it’s hard to do so when ambient light is crowding out your subject. For this work, you’ll want a dedicated UV photography ...

These striking “ultraviolet portraits” reveal the imperfections of people’s skin that are invisible to the human eye. The series of images — titled “RAW” — shows 20 different faces combined with close ...

Multispectral imaging (MSI) [1, 2] and Hyperspectral Imaging [3–6], have been suggested as methods for the non-destructive identification of pigments. Though, it is mandatory to point out that these ...