I spent most of yesterday and the day before trying different ways of lighting my CTC-5 to be able to see the cabinet but not wash out the (dim) picture, to get some shots of "Wonderful World of Color." I ended up using two remote flashes aimed at the ceiling through honeycomb light modifiers to prevent spill light. (It turns out two were necessary to get enough output from this indirect light.) The flowery "TV light" on top of the set added the warm glow on the back wall. Camera was set manually to F/10, two seconds, ISO400. The resulting light on the furniture was still dark and was increased with the Shadows control slider in Lightroom. The room was quite dark, which is hard to tell in the pictures. Texture, Clarity, Sharpness (with masking) and Detail were also increased in Lightroom. There was no need for noise reduction. Some moire' is visible, and appears to be mainly in the greens and yellows.
After all this, I missed the most important shot, the title, so today I took a separate screen shot with the same settings but no flash, and overlayed it on one of yesterday's shots. All the other shots were taken yesterday as described above.
A few more are at
https://www.flickr.com/photos/old_tv...57719776551752
09-02-2021, 05:58 PM
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