‘There may have been fogs for centuries in London. I dare say there were. But no one saw them, and so we know nothing about them. They did not exist until art had invented them.’
Oscar Wilde, ‘The Decay of Lying’
I think Alan touches on an important point--the palettes we "see" in Nature are as much or more a product of history and culture (or happenstances of technology) as they are measurable wavelengths of light. If you studied on a, say, a Thomas Moran (or in the case of Ken's first edit, a Bierstadt) who knows what part of the spectrum you'd find most suited your purposes.
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