…because I’m not sure I can get everything I’d like from it without some studying.
I was looking forward to a chance to shoot this again when I’d heard I’d be going back to the job that this was on the way to. Conveniently there was a full moon this evening so I made sure to get to the spot and get set up. I managed to catch it just cresting over the horizon, and then just kept recomposing to get more. This shot appealed to me for a first edit, and that’s what I have here. I’ll work through more of the batch tonight. Not exactly sure what I’d like to see…but it does seem a bit monotone…maybe some contrast between the snow and the sky?
Edited in dt 5.0
I ruined the light here but anyway a couple of versions…both of which can lose a lot of that color by just dropping the highlight chroma if the yellow moon is too funky… Left the snow alone too but it could be desaturated…
I tried again with a whole lot of manipulation…I just gotta figure out what I can cut from the workflow to minimize the time spent on it because this is close to what I’m thinking for intent, but still not right.
There’s also some very sloppy manual brush masking. DSC07734.xmp (6.8 KB)
The shot is very nice this facilitates a lot the editing
There are (were) some dust on the lens I removed.
Also it’s amazing that you managed to avoid clipping the moon and still have so much details in the shadows, did you use a tripod?
Created using dt for basic processing and the agx-emulsion tool from @arctic . Had to scale it down to a very small image to be able to process it. Much detail is lost as a result.
Yes, I used a tripod because the last time I took this shot I had completely blown out the moon. This time I composed and set my aperture to a bunch of ranges between f8 and f22, then used my selective focusing to focus on the moon, and had an ev comp of…I think -0.7?
That’s why it’s so difficult for me to get the scene to light up in processing. I saved the moon at the expense of the rest of it…but I think with some masking I can preserve the foreground and still save the colour in the sky.
Left the snow alone too but it could be desaturated…
