Full Spectrum Long Exposure Ultraviolet Fluorescence Photography #9: Akebia flowers Part 2

This plant is a new find to me in the last few years, I did not know about the "Chocolate Vine" until I read up on it. It seems pretty rare around this region. It grows quite quickly and can be a pest if in an area it does well in. It can handle frosts and drops its leaves in the winter to protect its self, but as soon as spring shows up it starts growing. Feet at a time.

These photos are my posts for #longexposurephotography

Camera Model	Lumix GH3, modified by LifePixel for Full Spectrum
Lens	Olympus MSC ED M. 60mm Macro lens
Filter	None
Aperture	f/5
Shutter Speed	2 sec
Film Speed	200
Spectrum	Full Spectrum (FS)
Wavelength	300 nanometers through 1200 nanometers
Location	North Georgia USA.

I use my blacklight LED flashlight and cast light onto the flowers in a dark room with my full spectrum camera.

You can see a twisty tie used to suspend the flower while I photograph it. I find it hard to hide it in all my shots, especially with small samples such as the Akebia flower.

The flowers tend to droop alot if I do not use more than tape, and find the twisty tie doubled over can hold the weight of small flowers so it works well for me.

I like the blue and purple colors seen in the flower, the stamens are more of a blue and the petals are a pinkish purple.

I could smell the flowers as I worked with them, a nice smell to it.

Before bringing the sample into my dark room I took some pictures of it on the plant in full spectrum. You can see how the leaves have a purple hue to them.

The flowers are a pink purple as well but not as vibrant as the blacklit full spectrum shots.

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I take pictures with a special camera. Its a Mirrorless DSLR that has been modified by Life Pixel to see light in other wavelengths. This allows my camera to see light in the Infrared [IR] around 1300 NM wavelength, through the visual spectrum and into the Ultraviolet A and B wavelengths roughly into the 300 NM wavelength.

I carry many filters on me to make the photos you see in my blog, these filters screw on my lens and help me isolate certain wavelengths for certain scenes. These filters can be IR / UV pass-through filters to assist me get a natural photo taking out the UV and IR light. Or I may use a Infrared pass-through filter capture just IR light. I can do the same with UV light as well, though I need some better filters which they can cost a few hundred dollars for true Ultraviolet pass through filters. So for right now I have B + W 403 bandpass filters that still allow some IR light in, due to their cheaper material.

There are also exotic glasses made of sapphire and germanium I am open to working with to replace my silica glass hot mirror with a material that allows even longer wavelengths of infrared to enter my cameras sensor. Special sensors, lenses and filters of that material would be needed as well, so it would be a big project but one that may give some even more unique photography results.

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