I captured this the other night when hoping to get some meteors from the reported peak of the Perseid meteor shower. I was trying to get an acceptable setting to include the meteors and had decided on this area for my attempt. The moon was nearly full and lit up the Hoodoos quite well, and there is a faint hint of the Milky Way here as well.
If you’d like, have a look and have a play at it.
Edited in dt 5.0, Windows
Took another shot at it myself…I really like what you’ve all managed to pull from the sky. I tried to darken it some more with some masking and color adjustment, and then inverted that same mask to adjust the exposure and color of the foreground.
Getting closer to what I’d like to see out of a final edit.
Part of the reason it’s lit up so much is that the nearly full moon is only a vertical frame width to the right of this scene…plus, if any of you noticed any weird haloing around the outline of the hillside, it’s because throughout this part of the evening there was incredibly active lightning happening in the valley just beyond where this was taken.
