Wide View of Lunar Excursion Module - April 1980 - Shot on Film
I saved this for last. This is probably meant to be Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the lunar surface. The time, training, and previous missions paid off here. This was the first time in history that human beings set foot on a world other than Earth.
The display shows Buzz Aldrin stepping off the Lunar Excursion Module (also known at the LEM), with Neil Armstrong already on the surface, waiting for Aldrin. Anyone old enough to remember seeing this on TV (as best as they could) knew what an important occasion this was. The live TV images were seen all over the world, including Vietnam, where American servicemen and women could watch -- if they were able to. The planet truly was a global village that night.
I'm glad this display was lit with incandescent lights, which came close to studio lighting -- that is, 3200 degrees Kelvin. It certainly made it easier for me to tweak it on both Lightroom and Photoshop Express.
I shot this photo with my Vivitar 400 S/L camera, using my Vivitar 28mm lens. My film was Eastman Kodak 5247 motion picture stock, rated at ASA 100. I had the negative recently scanned at Samy's Camera in Pasadena.
Wide View of Lunar Excursion Module - April 1980 - Shot on Film
I saved this for last. This is probably meant to be Apollo 11, the first manned mission to the lunar surface. The time, training, and previous missions paid off here. This was the first time in history that human beings set foot on a world other than Earth.
The display shows Buzz Aldrin stepping off the Lunar Excursion Module (also known at the LEM), with Neil Armstrong already on the surface, waiting for Aldrin. Anyone old enough to remember seeing this on TV (as best as they could) knew what an important occasion this was. The live TV images were seen all over the world, including Vietnam, where American servicemen and women could watch -- if they were able to. The planet truly was a global village that night.
I'm glad this display was lit with incandescent lights, which came close to studio lighting -- that is, 3200 degrees Kelvin. It certainly made it easier for me to tweak it on both Lightroom and Photoshop Express.
I shot this photo with my Vivitar 400 S/L camera, using my Vivitar 28mm lens. My film was Eastman Kodak 5247 motion picture stock, rated at ASA 100. I had the negative recently scanned at Samy's Camera in Pasadena.