James R. Kyle Loc: Saint Louis, Missouri (A Suburb of Ferguson)

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Yes, Todd = This is what I do.... RAW shooting Everything is the way to go. I do shoot in jpg ONLY with sporting events as I want the faster shutter speed from my Canon 5D Mark II. Everything else is RAW.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

Wes, it depends on what type of effect you are shooting for. Like DavePine, billnikon, mborn, burkphoto, and others have stated, the color balance coming off the moon is just slightly different from the 5500K to 6500K of normal sunlight and really needs no correcting - unless you are trying to duplicate what the eye sees. mcveed and Architect1776 are correct that the eye becomes much more monochromatic but there is also a hue shift. In a dark room at night, the eye is nearly monochromatic. But with the bright moonlight (more like being in a movie theater), that romantic moonlit scene that one sees can only be reproduced by changing the hue. The eyes' night vision color shift is caused by a chemical commonly called vision purple. This chemical is always being produce by the eye and wraps around the eye's rods. As a photon hits the rod the vision purple releases its energy to multiply or increase the signal to the brain. But rods are basicly "color blind". Because the light levels are more like a movie theater, the cones also function but not at a normal capacity. The hue shift comes into play because the vision purple used by the rods has a pinkish or purplish hue to it that acts as a "filter" on the cones. It is not a Kelvin color change. If you want to produce that romantic color to the picture, there are special filters available at a hefty cost. Or you can get very close to the same effect by choosing the florescent color balance from your camera's color balance menu. Also, you may want to underexpose slightly and, if the camera allows it, desaturate the image slightly. Of course, the adding of the florescent hue and both the last two items can be done in post processing. Although I have done my romantic moonlit shots all in camera at the time of the shot, I'm sure you will be just as pleased with the results with post processing.