Moons are tricky - kept the detail there but lost it elsewhere, houses gone all mushy (starts to break down before 100%)
Exposure’s pretty much as seen - sun sat behind me about an hour ago. It might be blue hour but those blues can get out of control pretty quickly
Thoughts and comments on alternate methods of keeping the noise down.
2 instances of denoise profiled - wavelets & NLM. Blend modes???
Set up camera for Magic Lantern dual ISO but have no idea where DNGs go after passing through CR2HDR… Maybe it just doesnt work on win10?
Then remembered @patdavid article here on median stacking but might need directions to a walk through for numpties (got it to work years ago but that was years ago)
Anyhoo, have fun with the RAW
First I set White Balance to Daylight to capture what I would regard as the ‘natural light’
I did two instances of exposure. The first for the global scene and the second for the moon. I used a drawn and parametric mask combination to select just the moon and applied a very small amount of blur and feathering to the mask.
Chromatic aberration around the moon was an issue I noticed and tackled that with the various CA options.
There was an obvious hot pixel (red) in the foreground so I applied the hot pixels module and problem solved.
Filmic auto tune levels resulted in an excessively bright moon so I set the white slider to my own preference
I used the shadow highlights module in moderation. I appreciate others might have chosen to use the tone equalizer module.
I saw no problems with noise on my 43 inch monitor so I was happy with the default denoise (profiled) option. I also added some basic colorfullness and did initial sharpening using the diffuse or sharpen anti-aliasing preset.
Lovely image. I used two presets for noise reduction - chroma and luma. Kept it subtle as I don’t mind luma noise, but can always adjust strength to taste.
So… this one stuck with me and I thought I’d offer a second version. It took me longer as expected and comparing the final result, I must say I really like your edit. Some minor things are different in my edit, but the overall gist feels similar.
As I haven’t seen the scene, I’m not sure the colors match - but I think this one is more believable than my first distortion. Anyways … here is the image
Great image. I found it quite challenging, mostly due to the moon! I used 4 instances of tone eq… I’ve pushed the contrast and saturation pretty high mostly in sigmoid (dt 4.1) but I quite like it. _MG_8597.CR2.xmp (31.2 KB)
