It's not possible to expose correctly for a bright moon and a nighttime landscape in one frame. If you expose for the earth portion of the image, the moon is completely blown out and ends off being a solid white disc. To address that problem, most photographers simply paste a photo of a bright moon (showing good lunar detail) into a night or twilight landscape or cityscape. The problem with that, though, is the natural glow you can see around the moon is missing. A thin crescent moon doesn't have a glow -- it's not large enough yet. But a gibbous, half, or full moon always has a subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) glow, and without that the resulting image looks like a poorly done cut and paste job. To create this image in Guilin, China, I combined two pictures: one shows the fisherman with a blown out moon that included the glow, and the second one was a shot of the moon exposed to show clearly visible detail in the surface of the moon. It took a few attempts to combine them well, but this is the result. The exposure of the fisherman, taken from a tripod, was 1/20, f/4.5, and 4000 ISO. It was taken about 4am.
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