2025-07-10_17-25-55._7100433.orf (13.2 MB)
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At the full moon 15 days ago I tried to capture both the moon and some of the sunset glow against the pale tree-bark. Ended up with dreadfully-blown moon, which I have managed to get a little detail back into, but with some haloing. What can you do?
or with the sun glow, which is somehow lost on the above edit:
I preferred to leave a little darkness so the photo is not too saturate with noise. I also removed the lower light source because I think the good composition was worth the sacrilege 
I used D&S Bloom on the moon rather than trying to get any detail. DT 5.3.
2025-07-10_17-25-55._7100433.orf.xmp (13.3 KB)
Mine is pretty plain. The full moon is well up, so I assume it was fairly dark, and this is what I got. Thanks for the play.
Nice, those are the moments of the day…
Haven’t done much weirdie’s. Main is crop, rotate, followed by two inverted tone equalizer curves. That’s the main job. Some denoising, one with contrast equalizer masked to the sky. Bit of bloom wit SoD dialed back to 33%. Just played a bit in color calibration. Than color balance rgb. And finished making the sky lighter in color lut.
Hope you like it, kind regards, Jetze
+2 EV in Filmulator then into GIMP. A simple contrast mask and a crop. I have no idea what it really looks like, as this was done on my “toy” laptop.
Thank you, all …
@Popanz - I do like the sun glow you have managed to display, whilst keeping the moon in control;
@odum - the sacrilege is forgiven! Nice take, and yes - a good way to keep the noise down; there was in reality quite a bit more light;
@kap55 - the colour on the tree bark is superb!
@Tim - as mentioned, there was a fair amount of glow in the Western sky - which is what I was trying to capture with the full moon - maybe I set myself an impossible task;
@Jetze - nice getting glow on the tree trunk and a moon not blown;
@david - the tree looks superb, albeit noisy; the moon, unfortunately is blown - but maybe it is a case of Luke to Yoda: “you ask the impossible.”
Thanks, everyone - I will download your .xmp files where applicable and study.
If I could figure out how to get the dt-nind that @sillyxone uses, that would be amazing. Until then, the edit by @Popanz has inspired my edits here.
Monochrome edit (lost the moon detail and couldn’t figure out how to get it back).
dt 5.2
2025-07-10_17-25-55._7100433_01.orf.xmp (22.7 KB)
