Appollo Moon Hoax - Backlighting for Aldrin

Video taken, from black and white video and colour stills. Notice how the stills have quite a large amount of lighting.

Even with the effects of heiligenschein there couldn't be that level of reflective light. Close ups show hot spots of lighting on the clothing, boots etc...

Video taken from
http://www.ufos-aliens.co.uk/cosmicapollo.html

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• Appollo
• Moon
• Hoax
• shadows
• backlighting

[nesokretep]

The "secondary light source" for the "hot spots" is the pure white suit of the astronaut standing in direct sunlight when he's taking the picture.

[Arvak777]

this kinda reminds me of the suicidal munchkin conspiracy in wizard of OZ,

[loperspest]

@MTMind2

Not to mention it would be incredibly stupid for the alleged producers of the alleged hoax to add a fill light when trying to fake a film of a body known to have only one primary light source.

[MTMind2]

BTW, thanks to the joys of the internet (i.e. rapidshare), I downloaded and watched that episode of Mythbusters again, and found they hadn't botched the experiment as claimed, far from it. But, that's a side issue, hence I'll only go into details if asked (but do watch it again if you can).

[MTMind2]

Also, there's a lack of shadows. If those photos used a light as suggested, and a light strong enough to produce a so-called hotspot, then I would expect to see forward projected shadows somewhere in those photos, and yet there appears to be none (look at the area he holds onto the craft in 5866). Sorry, but as I mentioned before, even if those photos were fake, I don't see any evidence of a light being used, or even the need for one given the reflected light.

[MTMind2]

My pleasure, the print quality versions are the ones I'm referring too (hence the URL). With the material of the boot, and the fact that you have a sheet of grey/white luminous moon behind the camera, you would expect to see that 'hotspot'.

Have a look at photo 5867, the left boot reflects light from behind the camera, the back of the angled right boot reflects moon light from left/front of camera. There's also a noticeable lack of 'hotspots' in the foil on the craft.

[Eriksz]

@MTMind2 Did you look at the print quality version? Very large image and there is a clear line or hot spot on the boot. Sure it's not as bright as this video but it is there.. Thanks for the URL, the images are interesting.

[Eriksz]

@MTMind2 Thanks for the comments. Here's what really stands out, the Myth Busters photos background look nothing like the original, with regards to the background luminosity.

[MTMind2]

If you're still not convinced, put your image of the reflected light of the boot on screen(1:31) and compare it to his boot in the original image (5866);

lpi(.)usra(.)edu/resources/apo­llo/images/print/AS11/40/5866.­jpg

Surely you can agree that what looks like a very bright reflection in your video is actually just a subtle reflection when seen in the original?

[MTMind2]

Therefore I think if you look at those high resolution photos objectively, you can not come to the same conclusion. The fact is, this has nothing to do with being fake or real, because even if it was fake, there would have been enough lighting from the illuminated surface behind the camera to produce that effect, making additional lighting completely unnecessary!

[MTMind2]

Hence focus on photos 5866 to 5869. It's clear from those photos that the soles of the boots are a grey rubber with a slight sheen to them, catching the light from the *bright* lunar surface behind the camera and from the surface in front of the camera! If this was produced by lights as suggested, then those lights would have multiple reflections in the metalic copper/gold foil material in shadow, but it's not!