This was an interesting picture to put together. It shows a cormorant fisherman in Guilin, China about an hour before dawn. The riverscape image is correctly exposed -- that was a 57 second exposure -- and the moon is also exposed well because it’s not blown out. The lunar detail is clearly defined. To achieve this, I had to make a 3-photo composite. The riverscape is one shot, the moon is another shot, and the boatman had to be brought in from another image because he would have blurred with such a long exposure. Note the glow around the moon. Without it, the moon would have looked artificially pasted into the sky. I pasted the correctly exposed moon over the blown out moon and combined the two with a blend mode. That was the only way to retain the glow of the moon as well as detail in the lunar surface.
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