Page 142 - Lunacy and the Age of Deception

Consider what effect this brilliant sunlight would have on film. Without a filter, film would be
rapidly saturated with light and appear washed out. With a filter, the extreme difference between
light and shadow on the Moon would cause shadows to appear impenetrable when the camera was
properly adjusted to photograph objects under intense sunlight. It was this very line of reasoning
which NASA used to explain why no stars appear in the lunar sky. They say the cameras were set-up
for daytime photography, so dimly illuminated objects, such as stars in the sky, did not show up at
all. The entire sky appeared as a solid black expanse. If this is true, then the same thing would also
occur when the astronauts were taking photos of shadowed objects on the surface of the Moon.
Objects illuminated directly by the Sun should appear visible, while everything in shadow should
be dark, indistinct, and lacking detail.

The contrast between illuminated and shaded areas on the Moon is much greater than light and
shadow on Earth, and it should appear this way in photos. NASA, after all, did not use any specialty
film which would allow for a wider range of light exposures such as one would find on the Moon.
They used the same Kodak Ektachrome film sold to photographers for use on Earth.

If we were to step into the shade of a building on a sunny day on Earth, there would be a noticeable
decrease in light, but we could still see detail quite well. However, on the Moon, if you did the same
thing it would be like stepping into the darkness of night. There is therefore no plausible reason that
the front of Buzz Aldrin’s spacesuit should be so visible, and the detail so clear. The Sun in all its
lunar brilliance is at his back, and the front of his spacesuit is in shadow. We should be able to
discern no detail on the shadowed side of Buzz Aldrin. He should appear as a silhouette against a
bright backdrop.

Silhouette

Without any front lighting source, and lacking the light scattering properties of the Earth’s
atmosphere, all objects lying in shadow on the Moon should appear dark. NASA admits this
themselves. On one of their websites the following statements are found.

Without the blue sky, your shadow would be eerily dark, like a piece of night following you around.
Weird. Yet that's exactly how it is on the Moon.

To visualize the experience of Apollo astronauts, imagine the sky turning completely and utterly
black while the sun continues to glare. Your silhouette darkens, telling you "you're not on Earth
anymore."