The Midnight Run Project 365

For my first entry for Project 365, I thought I would capture the blue moon that greeted 2010.

I learned that the moon isn’t as easy a subject as I initially thought it would be. It was either I exposed for the moon to capture its surface details and underexpose the things I wanted to frame against it, or expose for the framing elements and blow out all the details of the moon. I did both, and ultimately decided on the latter since it seemed to make for a more interesting photo.

Shot on a tripod after waiting for the moon to hang low in the sky. Shot in aperture priority mode and maxed out the f-stop to get the most details I can. Forgot to turn off auto ISO, so it was shot at 1600 ISO and it got grainy at the dimly-lit parts of the the clouds. Post-processing adjustment of contrast to hide most of the high ISO noise, and then white balance to give the moon a blue hue.

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