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Re: [AGA-mcm] Photography and Bulbs experiment
- To: AGA Advisory Committee <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
- Subject: Re: [AGA-mcm] Photography and Bulbs experiment
- From: "S. Hieber" <shieber@yahoo.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 06:50:21 -0700 (PDT)
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This sounds much more like what you see is what you get.
And it could make a nice photo spread in some aquatic plant
periodical!
It would be a pain to try to control for lots of diff
camera software and hardware, but he claims could be
limited and the basic results would probably withstand a
reasonable amount of genralization.
I'd be glad to help with this if I can.
sh
--- Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> Erik Olson
> erik at thekrib dot com
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