[AGA-mcm] Photography and Bulbs experiment

[Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>]

So, while I was writing to Tom, "this is a totally silly project -- what 
really matters is how the tank LOOKS", it reminded me how crappily my own 
tanks photographed when I had Sylvania T8 75 CRI tubes over them, and how 
I was totally blown away by some photos that Neil showed at one of his 
presentations (NJAS '99).  The absolutely *best* photos I've gotten of 
tanks were using a flash above the top.

So I was thinking, how about a "light tube shoot-out"?  Gather a bunch of 
different bulbs and fixtures, T-12's (cool white, Chroma-50, Triton, etc), 
T-8's (low and high CRI triphosphors, Zoo Med's entire line), CF's 
(various color temps), MH, an incandescent bulb, and flash.  Photograph a 
SINGLE tank with each of these combinations, using (1) slide and/or neg 
film, (2) a digital camera with auto-white-balance, (3) same digital 
camera using manual white balance.  Publish results on web.

You might be able to get some of the bulbs donated, and if it were done in 
the context of a convention, auction the bulbs off afterwards.  The 
important thing would be to do it all at once.

Anyway, no time for ME to do this right now, but maybe by the time AGA 
2006 rolls around...

  - Erik

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Erik Olson
erik at thekrib dot com
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