WWI Airfield - April 1980 - Shot on Film

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WWI Airfield - April 1980 - Shot on Film
WWI Airfield - April 1980 - Shot on Film

Lighting for a museum exhibit is like lighting for a stage production, everything is designed for the human eye, not the film or video camera. Thus the low level lighting you see in this photo. I had to use a slow shutter speed, and I still had to shoot wide open at f/2 to get this image.

To light such a scene for a movie, the key light on the building would have to have been boosted enough to yield an f/stop of perhaps f/4 or f/5.6. The shadow areas would also need some boost of enough foot candles to get maybe f/2 or a bit higher. Shadow areas would be truly black and there would be no noticeable grain, unlike what you can see here. For a visitor, this would look properly moody, but for a film camera it would be dark and murky, with details almost indiscernible, as you see here.

I shot this with my Vivitar 400 S/L camera, using my 50mm lens. My film was Eastman Kodak 5247 motion picture stock, rated at ASA 100. The negative was recently scanned at Samy's Camera in Pasadena. I did the adjusting and final tweaking on Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop Express.

This was also at the Smithsonian Air Space Museum in Washington, D.C., taken in April of 1980.

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Taken on: April 1, 1980
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