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RE: [AGA-mcm] Photography and Bulbs experiment



He's still listed as that.

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--- Phil Edwards <biotypical@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Is Jay still the official AGA Photographer?  This might
> be an excellent 
> project for him to do.
> 
> >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
> >
> >--
> >Erik Olson
> >erik at thekrib dot com
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