It is impossible to include the moon in any of its phases in a twilight landscape or cityscape and retain detail in the lunar surface with a single shot. The moon always blows out simply because it is so much brighter than the earth-based subjects that a digital sensor can't handle the discrepancy in exposure. If you expose correctly for the architecture or the landscape, the moon will be several f/stops overexposed. Therefore, you have to take two separate pictures -- one for the moon (which is a daylight exposure of 1/250 at f/8 with 200 ISO) and one for the land and then put the together in Photoshop. I took this picture of Pagan, Myanmar from the top of a temple, and my exposure for the land was six seconds, f/8, 250 ISO. I used a 400mm focal length.
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