Moon Rising Over the Chisos Mountains Lodge (Big Bend National Park)
A view looking to the southeast while staying at the Chisos Mountains Lodge in Big Bend National Park. What drew me into this image (and what I wanted to capture while composing the image) was the setting of the lodge itself and the walkway leading up to it. Kind of a reminder for where I stayed on a past trip. But it was the moon rising just over the Chisos Mountains. There was that one break in the clouds above Toll Mountain where the moon just happened to be. So that's the story behind the image. To meter this setting was a lot more difficult given the brightness of the moon with the more shadowed areas in the nearby lodge. I felt I was able to find an exposure that allowed me to capture enough of the dynamic range according to the histogram on my Nikon D850 SLR camera.
I later chose to work with Aurora HDR Pro to better bring that complete setting in the image. I then exported a TIFF image to DxO PhotoLab 5 where I did some final adjustments with contrast, saturation and brightness for the final image.
Moon Rising Over the Chisos Mountains Lodge (Big Bend National Park)
A view looking to the southeast while staying at the Chisos Mountains Lodge in Big Bend National Park. What drew me into this image (and what I wanted to capture while composing the image) was the setting of the lodge itself and the walkway leading up to it. Kind of a reminder for where I stayed on a past trip. But it was the moon rising just over the Chisos Mountains. There was that one break in the clouds above Toll Mountain where the moon just happened to be. So that's the story behind the image. To meter this setting was a lot more difficult given the brightness of the moon with the more shadowed areas in the nearby lodge. I felt I was able to find an exposure that allowed me to capture enough of the dynamic range according to the histogram on my Nikon D850 SLR camera.
I later chose to work with Aurora HDR Pro to better bring that complete setting in the image. I then exported a TIFF image to DxO PhotoLab 5 where I did some final adjustments with contrast, saturation and brightness for the final image.