This week our students captured the spark of Wint-O-Green LifeSavers on color film. Working in complete darkness each student captured the spark of three different lifesavers. The first image was their control.
The image shown above, is one of our students control images. The oil of wintergreen in the candy fluoresces blue. For their next two images, students painted the surface of their candies with fluorescent dyes. These dyes absorb the UV radiation that is produced and re-emit it in a different portion of the visible spectrum changing the normal blue color to yellow, green, pink, or orange depending on the dye or dyes used. The two images below show the effect that the fluorescent dyes have on the color of the spark.
By the end of the week, all of our students had captured the spark multiple times. Their images are in the gallery below. Next project… Thermal Imaging.
Experimental Photography MHS 
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