Your opinion? Disco Cactus - Peruvian Apple Cactus (Cereus repandus) UV

[Chavezshutter]

Hi,

I've been playing a bit with some UV photography. I have a large collection of cacti around my house and while exploring my plants and cacti at night using my torch that I found one particular cactus which naturally had an array of amazing colours under UV. [HASH=3021]#discocactus[/HASH] [HASH=3022]#UVphotography[/HASH] [HASH=3023]#nightmacro[/HASH]


This rather ordinary looking cactus turns into quite the party animal at night under UV...



I would love to photo this cactus' flower under UV, but as is the case with many cactii, a flower might be a long time waiting.

 

[Greg Shchepanek]

Brilliant Artwork Chavezshutter what a different world you show us the twinkling UV colour in the background id most beautiful

 

[Helix_2648]

Ohhh wow! That's so different! Really not comparable! Like something from outer space! I wanted to test it on mushrooms but wasn't able so far.

 

[Chavezshutter]

Helix_2648 You gotta try it out, im drowning in UV shoot ideas, one of the more impressive thing I've found so far is natural pollen under UV, it literally glows like stars or fairy dust and almost looks like a photoshop effect. I am still evolving a way to present this in a photo. Maybe mushrooms spores are similar. Good UV torches will not have much visible light, visible light reduces the fluorescense so keep away from the ultra cheap ones that spit out too much visible light. Cant wait to see some of your mushroom shots in UV, they are going to be out of this world