We were on our way home last Saturday from visiting my mom in hospital in the city and drove by this scene - I had to get out and capture the vivid full moon rising over the corn fields of the South African Highveld.
This is yet another image where I replaced the moon I captured with a closer shot of the same moon. It might be a bit big but in this case I went for how I "experienced" the scene rather than how large the moon physically appeared in inches or centimeters
I shot 3 exposures for the dynamic and tonal range of the gorgeous "after-sunset" light, and then attached my 100-400mm lens and captured a detailed underexposed shot of the moon at 100mm. Even then when bringing it back in as a layer I had to downsize it significantly to a proportion which resonated with what I wanted to achieve with this shot.
All feedback most welcome!
Techs:
Canon 7D with 10-22mm USM @ 22mm
f9 @ ISO-200
Cloned out some power lines running right to left in the scene...








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