An Evening with the Moon Brightly Shining (Black & White)
An image captured during a partial lunar eclipse in mid September from a parking garage view in Austin, Texas. The view is looking to the east-southeast. The moon is seen above a nearby condo building that had scaffolding on the top portions of one area. Some clouds that were moving in and out of the image and at other times, partially obscuring, the moon itself. One can see the partial lunar eclipse in the upper portion of the moon. In metering the image, I used the LCD screen on my Nikon Z8 Mirrorless Camera, dialing down the exposure so that I could bring out more details on the surface. It was as I later worked on the image that I remembered the building side and worked with DxO PhotoLab 8 to bring out those shadowed area. I found that the colors were very off and there was a lot of processing that I had to overcome to bring it out properly. I chose to perform a conversion to black & white, along with some grain in locations to minimize banding artifacts.
As for the composition, what drew me into this image was the feeling like I had seen something like this in a Hollywood movie before some horror or scary setting was about to happen. That's what I worked for the look in the two software programs I used.
An Evening with the Moon Brightly Shining (Black & White)
An image captured during a partial lunar eclipse in mid September from a parking garage view in Austin, Texas. The view is looking to the east-southeast. The moon is seen above a nearby condo building that had scaffolding on the top portions of one area. Some clouds that were moving in and out of the image and at other times, partially obscuring, the moon itself. One can see the partial lunar eclipse in the upper portion of the moon. In metering the image, I used the LCD screen on my Nikon Z8 Mirrorless Camera, dialing down the exposure so that I could bring out more details on the surface. It was as I later worked on the image that I remembered the building side and worked with DxO PhotoLab 8 to bring out those shadowed area. I found that the colors were very off and there was a lot of processing that I had to overcome to bring it out properly. I chose to perform a conversion to black & white, along with some grain in locations to minimize banding artifacts.
As for the composition, what drew me into this image was the feeling like I had seen something like this in a Hollywood movie before some horror or scary setting was about to happen. That's what I worked for the look in the two software programs I used.