Two friends alerted me of the mesmerizing moon rising (special thanks to Lori and Paul). It was the Wolf Moon for 2010 (the biggest full moon of the year, owing to how close it was to Earth).
I grabbed my camera and took a few shots, each with different exposures. I thought the image on my LCD failed to capture just how eerily large the moon was. That, and that from my LCD it didn’t look very different from my previous Project 365 moon entry, made me gave up after just 5 exposures. I resigned myself to finding something else to shoot.
The lessons I learned from that previous moon shoot came back to me. It was either I exposed for the moon to capture its details, or expose for the surroundings and blow out all the details on the moon. This time, though, I realized I had enough to actually play with combining two exposures.
Lots of layer masking here. One for the clouds, one for the tree, and one for the moon. I wish I was more careful with the street lamp when I was shooting, though. I think it’s distracting, but I just ran out of energy to even attempt to edit it out.
I like it. It looks very mysterious. The light in the background added to the mystery. I would not have known it was a street lamp.
Hehe. I guess the street lamp could pass as a UFO.