Gibbous Moon in cloud colors
Taken by Dewey Vanderhoff on January 7, 2020 @
Cody Wyoming USA
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The waxing gibbous Moon of January 2020 captured behind a scrim of rapidly changing high clouds in refracted colors.
For once the Nikon D5300 dslr in-camera HDR exposure feature produced an excellent rendering when it merged two exposures. Only minor adjustment of Highlight/Shadow was used in Affinity Photo to fine tune the lunar details to better resemble what I saw at the time. The cloud colors and opacity were changing quickly, and I was experimenting with different settings of the fickle HDR feature as I went. One resulting frame captured this ethereal scene best , in both wide brightness range while retaining subtle tones and colors. Not easy to do ( and I confess I do not shoot in RAW mode, but probably should for this sort of thing...)
Nikon D5300 , Sigma 150-500mm APO-HSM lens at maximum zoom ( eq. to 750mm or 15X). Aperture priority set to f/11 at ISO 1600, exposure roughly 1/50th sec . Daylight color balance was used.
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