Dark Flash Photography - UV/IR Flash Instead of Visible Light

The photographer Weegee used to bring his camera with infrared film and an infrared flash bulb into darkened movie theaters and photograph the audience behind him. Back in the 40s!<p><a href="http://museum.icp.org/museum/collections/special/weegee/weegee14.html" rel="nofollow">http://museum.icp.org/museum/collections/special/weegee/weeg...</a>

That reminds me of the video where Richard Feynman talks about light. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b6DpT2YLI4" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6b6DpT2YLI4</a>.

Seems like a good idea. I guess the invisible light provides high-resolution luminance data, and the low-resolution visible shot provides the chroma. Since our eyes are more sensitive to luma than chroma, the image is not degraded much compared to a "correct" exposure.

This process merges a UV/IR photograph with an ambient light visible photograph. However, if you want to take a photograph of someone in the dark they're going to end up looking like the bogeyman.