When You Least Expect It....

[fentonacres]

Get out a black light and test it...

[fentonacres]

Another set...

http://www.carolinefentonphotography.com/Albums/FENTON-MARBLES/i-TcVsdSw

http://www.carolinefentonphotography.com/Albums/FENTON-MARBLES/i-PVhLPQR

[Steph]

Yup ... fun.

Back when I had a computer with photoshop, I got quite good at taking dramatic blacklight photos.

Dark room.

Black background.

My no-frills camera would turn the black background purple but then I'd go into photoshop and play with color levels until I subdued the purple and then the glow would jump out.

I was really really REALLY into blacklight marbles!

[fentonacres]

I do crop my photos but I try to do very little other editing... maybe boost the exposure a tad, or, in the case of these blacklight pics, I will decrease the "highlights" which just reduces the "overexposed" areas.

[Steph]

Yeah .... I was kinda obsessed with getting them just so.

Don't pay too much attention to the ramblings of a madwoman who assigned her blacklight marbles a grade of 1 to 7, with the possibility of getting a half grade such as 5.5.

[Steph]

Oh yes, I also had 0's.

I would look for marbles which were so neutral that they stayed black in the dark under the blacklight.

And I had a marble I called e-to-the-x ... it looked the same under blacklight as it did in normal light. Bonus points if you get the reason I called that e-to-the-x.