(Well, actually, \"Olympic Moon,\" but, since we\'re having fun with a certain photograph/composite/whatever that will undoubtedly make many thousands of times more dollars than I\'ll ever get with this one, the Latinizing seemed appropriate. )
I don\'t think that I can provide too much of a dramatic story, except that a) it was the morning of my 52nd birthday, and b) I originally set out to shoot the sunrise, and probably broke every speed record driving from Port Angeles up to Hurricane Ridge in the dark when I realized that I had a chance of getting up there while the moon was still up. Nothing dramatic about the taking of the photo, either -- I just set up on the sidewalk by the visitor\'s center, with the longest lens I had.
At any rate, this is pretty much what a single-shot moon-and-horizon capture will look like, with my having been lucky to nail the exposure close enough so that some playing with the exposure slider in Lightroom revealed a smidgen of detail of the moon\'s surface, while still allowing the snowy peaks of the Olympics sufficient shadow detail and texture. If I were shooting this today, I\'d bracket several exposures and use blending to make the moon a bit less bright and show a lot more of its surface, but I hadn\'t yet used that approach at the time this image was made.
Feb 09, 2012 at 04:17 AM
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