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<blockquote data-quote="BF Hammer" data-source="post: 774083" data-attributes="member: 48483">Getting back to the original topic here: I had a similar photo-op with the moon tonight. A thin overcast was creating a sort of moon-dog. Except there was depth and texture with the cloud cover.I used my 70-200mm f/2.8 lens to capture the image. I took over 70 photos, split into 3 groups with 3 different shutter speeds. I picked 1 image from each group, aligned the moon in each layer. The bottom 2 layers had very over-exposed moon, but the halo was showing well. Middle was a smaller halo, bottom layer had larger halo due to longer exposure. Top layer I processed to bring out some surface detail of moon, ignoring the halo. I layer-masked that top layer so only the moon would show in the stack. I experimented with the blend mode in layer 2 to get a pleasing result interacting with the base layer. Just flattened and 1 last sharpen filter applied before a resize and adding my watermark. Pre-processing with RawTherapee, final stacking and processing with GIMP.[ATTACH]368071[/ATTACH]So now you get to see a method I would try. Maybe I could have just used the 3 images for a standard HDR edit. Still could try.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BF Hammer, post: 774083, member: 48483"] Getting back to the original topic here: I had a similar photo-op with the moon tonight. A thin overcast was creating a sort of moon-dog. Except there was depth and texture with the cloud cover. I used my 70-200mm f/2.8 lens to capture the image. I took over 70 photos, split into 3 groups with 3 different shutter speeds. I picked 1 image from each group, aligned the moon in each layer. The bottom 2 layers had very over-exposed moon, but the halo was showing well. Middle was a smaller halo, bottom layer had larger halo due to longer exposure. Top layer I processed to bring out some surface detail of moon, ignoring the halo. I layer-masked that top layer so only the moon would show in the stack. I experimented with the blend mode in layer 2 to get a pleasing result interacting with the base layer. Just flattened and 1 last sharpen filter applied before a resize and adding my watermark. Pre-processing with RawTherapee, final stacking and processing with GIMP. [ATTACH=CONFIG]368071._xfImport[/ATTACH] So now you get to see a method I would try. Maybe I could have just used the 3 images for a standard HDR edit. Still could try. [/QUOTE]

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