Last night, Just Round Midnight, I had a little shooting trip that at a certain moment felt just like an African safari, Including deer sightings and the sense of potential mountain lions lurking in the shadows.
My aim was to use the light from the full moon that was hanging gloriously right in front of me, to shoot the landscape.
“Round Midnight 1”, was shot facing the low full moon, which created a huge difference in exposure values through the image, That’s why I made an HDR composition. HDR stands for ‘High dynamic range imaging’, It’s a technique that is based on Ansel Adams’s zone system, You can read more about it here. To capture the details I was looking for, I used 8 exposures with different light values for each one, from 1 to 30 seconds, all shot on a tripod and combined with Photoshop HDR Pro.
“Round Midnight 2” Is a single shot made on a tripod at a 30 seconds exposure, processed with Adobe Lightroom.