This will be my first time working with blacklight. We got one 400w blacklight canon and we'll have my strobes too. Any input or ideas would be much appreciated.

This is the clothing brand in question: http://www.publicbetawear.com/en/26-women
I saw some of their other photos, which seemed like they have a normal strobe behind for a rim light, and black light in front, which worked pretty well. I'd like to do more than just having the uv reactive stuff in the shot and actually have detail in the models too...

Any insight is much appreciated.
Some of the shots the last photographer did: http://www.publicbetawear.com/modules/m … aWear_.jpg

How did it turn out? What lighting setup did you go with? Any tips you like to share?

For the first two I used special filters on my strobes/speedlights and custom made lighting equipment paired with another filter on camera to produce these. The UW ones using about 300w of custom/modified continuous LED lighting in that first test which upped to 500w on my last 2 shoots and have just increased to 1100ws over 3 stands for the next. The UV/Blacklight CFL bulbs (365nm) just doesn't put out much power so requires far too bulbs to be useful so I scrapped the idea of using them after trying 2 reflector heads with 4 85w CFL UV bulbs.

I did these shots with four 40 watt UV florescence and a daylight 250 watt florescence aimed at the wall off next to the seamless paper. 

Have you considered renting a Broncolor 3200ws pack, head and UV adaptor? You shouldn't have a problem renting that sort of thing in NYC. I am not aware of any other manufacturer that sells a uv pass filter setup. Probably because it's rare to find a strobe without uv coating on the tube.

I used a broncolor UV setup for the photo below. There were 7in reflectors on either side as rim lights with blue gels and grids.

The background is fiber optic strands poking through a piece of Masonite which is painted black. The fiber is lit by a strobe.

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https://www.modelmayhem.com/portfolio/pic/36017687

Cheers,
Noah