The moon is bouncing sunlight which comes in at 5600-6000K. Since it’s not a pure white surface, the light gets warmed. It appears cooler to our eyes due to the Purkinje effect, but technically is around 4100K. If you take a camera out at night on a full moon somewhere where there is no light pollution, and take a long exposure shot with the white balance set somewhere between 4000-4500K, you’ll see that it looks pretty close to daylight. It’s a fun experiment
Informative and illuminating!
As long as there are no shadows with high contrast that makes it painfully obvious that the editors just slapped a blue filter on a daylight shooting.
4100 kelvin? that doesn’t sound right for moonlight
I'm also trying to figure this one out.
The moon is bouncing sunlight which comes in at 5600-6000K. Since it’s not a pure white surface, the light gets warmed. It appears cooler to our eyes due to the Purkinje effect, but technically is around 4100K. If you take a camera out at night on a full moon somewhere where there is no light pollution, and take a long exposure shot with the white balance set somewhere between 4000-4500K, you’ll see that it looks pretty close to daylight. It’s a fun experiment
Very interesting
Full of light
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