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Feb 19, 2016 at 10:41 comment added Lightness Races in Orbit @Whelkaholism: I think the one in this answer is "enhanced", or from the end of the episode where the ship is coming back into a stellar region. It was really dark throughout the ep with no (or negligible) ambients.
Feb 19, 2016 at 10:32 comment added Whelkaholism @PreferenceBean yup, that's more what I'd expect :)
Feb 18, 2016 at 23:15 comment added Lightness Races in Orbit @Whelkaholism Here's a better image vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/images/e/e2/…
Feb 18, 2016 at 19:35 comment added Luaan @Whelkaholism Yeah, and the shading on the last picture also screams "ship in a box, in an atmosphere". Real space pictures look noticeably fake exactly because shadows are almost perfectly black (very little ambient light in contrast with the direct sunlight), and everything is absurdly well focused (there's nothing to blur out the image).
Feb 18, 2016 at 12:40 vote accept ed.hank
Feb 18, 2016 at 12:40 comment added ed.hank There were some excellent answers (@praxis @moridin @redcaio) but I think this answer was the most comprehensive. Thanks for helping me wrap my brain around this one, it was keeping me up at night!
Feb 18, 2016 at 10:18 comment added Whelkaholism A reasonable answer within the limits of fiction, but as a photographer, the first image still screams "low level ambient lighting" to me. There is no way that the hull would have that uniform low level of lighting just from the lights available on the ship unless the hull glows in the dark.
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Feb 18, 2016 at 8:00 history edited RedCaio CC BY-SA 3.0
I made some new images
Feb 18, 2016 at 6:54 history answered RedCaio CC BY-SA 3.0