Fishtank LED

This is a picture of my roommate's salt water fishtank with it's night light on. It's kind of incredible all the things that are going on here. When you look at it at first, it's just kind of blinding to the naked eye. But if you focus on it for a minute, your eye adjusts, and begins constantly readjusting to comprehend the huge range or light this little thing is outputting. It gives a general white with blue coloration to the room, but when you really inspect the color and where you can see the different lengths of light waves clash, you see there is much more than white and blue. It's great to look at it in person and then with a camera rendition too, because the camera can't view this as in depth as I can, so it has to make up for some of the light it can't get with what it thinks the color is there. It really makes it apparent all the different hues going into this light. Thus we get purples, pinks, oranges, some greens, even a little brown. I think it's a great idea to approach picking a color by deciding what general feel of color you want (here it would be, blue and white, or blinding light blue) and then really looking at what object or setting has that light mood that you are looking for and inspecting the colors that aren't apparent. If I think about moonlight, my first reaction is blue, or pale white. But if I really look at moonlight in the real world or in artist renditions of it, I see that there is a lot around the edges that is combining to make that specific tint. Color mixing has been really on my mind lately.