Capturing sunset lighting with moonrise without blowing out highlights

[MarcoNex]

A simple crop + teal/orange grading, DT 4.0
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[Jan_Holl (Jan Höll)]

DT4

[okieman]

I like the way you realized that the foreground details might be distracting from the moon and mountains. A little discrete cropping!

[goflydeep]

Indeed … didn’t realize I could simplify the image this way. Great idea.

[gigaturbo]

Reviving this nice moon shot
I used two Color Calibration

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[photomf (massimo fiorentini)]

@goflydeep

I am finding it quite challenging to make sure I capture both the colors of the sunset sky, the last light of sun on the landscape all the while ensuring the moon stands out but isn’t blown out. Ironically, I find it easier to do this a little after sunset when there is one less thing to worry about in processing (i.e. sunlight and shade from the setting sun). Of course this is easiest to do when in the daytime and sun more than 5 degrees above the horizon but such instances happen rarely given how the light from the moon works.

Would like some feedback on how I could ensure maximum details show in this picture while not blowing out any of the highlights. Also uploaded two versions of my edits. Thank you!

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Raw Therapee+ GMIC filters

[Tim (Tim Cuthbertson)]

Maybe I overdid it.

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[Iksou]

My take on this one!

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[paperdigits (Mica)]

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[cedric]

I noticed that the moon stayed orange in all the edits to date, and got to thinking about that considering it’s elevation:

[kaha (Karl)]

In RT:

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