Bad Moon Rising (Setting)

Thanks for all the comments left yesterday, on my re-titled 'Indigo Moon' shot - most appreciated - I had wanted to let the image speak for itself, as I had put so much into it and remains one of my favourites. I did answer a couple of technical queries, though.

Today's (a century and a half, already!) must surely be my last moon shot, at least for this full/waning period. Rain only just cleared as our lunar friend was about to dip below the horizon, a steep hill in front of me. It was fairly hazy, with some residual cloud lingering.

I purposefully made the moon glow like it does - I upped the contrast a fair amount, then added some shadow extraction. This made the softly rendered outline much bigger and brighter and also adding stronger colour (colour saturation/balance untouched). It also added a sort of vignetting effect, framing the image - then shadow extraction increased rendered detail in the trees more clearly.

The opposite to yesterday's fisheye image, this is quite a reasonable telephoto length.

I tried cropping and nothing worked, in any case, I always liked it as it was. It might look as if it should be trimmed but (in my opinion - and I'm biased, of course!) I feel it works fine as it is, with the streetlamps adding a contrast, both in shape and colour and perhaps also in that they lean over at the same angle as the tree next to each of them.

Check it out on 'large' (the L key)