The photo was taken near the end of October a year ago from my sister's living room in the foothills of the western North Carolina mountains. The house is perched on a steep wooded hillside, so the upper levels of many of the trees were at eye level. We looked out to see the moon still low in the sky and shrouded by fog. Although I remember the moonlight being very diffused and the trees in the background being somewhat visible, that's not the way it looked in the shots I took, so I had to create what I remember.
5 exposure HDR
ISO 100, f/16, 175mm
Photomatix tone mapping
cropped to golden rectangle proportions, all from left side
Viveza to remove a blue ring around the moon -- it was only on the shot with the shortest exposure, but it remained through the Photomatix processing
Color Efex -- Fog
Shadowhouse Creations texture -- added some blue and green
Shadowhouse Creations texture -- a lace curtain that looked reasonably like the branches and leaves I remembered in the background but which made the blues intense
Silver Efex at very low opacity to tone the colors down a bit
Color Efex -- Film Grain to diffuse the light
Flypaper texture to change the color pattern
Color Efex -- Tonal Contrast, Glamour Glow, and -- centered on the moon -- Darken/Lighten Center
Color Efex -- more Fog
Photo Filter adjustment layer -- cyan at very low opacity
added the shortest exposure shot in Darker Color blend mode with reduced opacity to darken the foreground leaves and branches
Levels to reduce the intensity of the moon a bit
uniform gradient vignette
That's pretty much how I remember what I, at least, saw.
