How to Get Detail in the Moon
If you have a big, beautiful full moon over your landscape (lucky you), you’re probably going to be really disappointed when you open your shot on your computer later only to find out that there’s no detail in the moon at all. It’s just a big white ball of light, kind of like a darker version of the sun. So how do you get a properly exposed shot of your landscape, and keep the detail in the moon? You take two shots: one exposed for the landscape, and then you change your settings (darkening your exposure by quite a bit) to expose for the moon, and then in Photoshop, in about 30 seconds, you put these two together ...
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