Hi there, lemme start off first by saying what my issue is and what I've done.
My issue is that when playing on Forge 1.8.9 and looking at snow, which is a very bright texture, everything gets very bright. the texture loses any warmth and becomes almost blinding to look at.
When I look away from the snow, the game dims and the snow becomes bearable to look at again, and the snow has a warmer color to it.
I tested vanilla of the latest game version to determine it wasn't a dynamic brightness setting of my monitor.
I removed everything from my .minecraft folder and reinstalled Forge 1.8.9 and the issue still occurred.
Not sure if this will happen to everyone, but if anyone knows a solution to my issue for Forge 1.8.9 without suggesting anything stupid, please let me know. thanks !