From: Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com>
Reply-To: AGA Advisory Committee <aga-mcm@thekrib.com>
To: aga-mcm@thekrib.com
Subject: [AGA-mcm] Photography and Bulbs experiment
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 06:40:06 -0700 (PDT)
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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