Super moon just after its rise on the horizon over the Downtown skyline
November 14, 2016, marked a date on the calendar in which no super moon until 70 years later, will be as biggest and brightest as this one. Rushed to shelter island in San Diego, California (the above location), I made sure I wanted to capture the moon rise over the iconic San Diego skyline.
Though every photographer's challenge, collecting equal amounts of exposure for both the foreground and moon, in one shot was an issue due to the moon's rise time and time of the sunset. As the moon gets higher in the sky, hope is lost to get that "equal exposed" picture.
However, there is a solution, a composite image. What is a composite image you ask? A composite Image is a picture that is made from the combination of multiple images merged into a single surface. Well, you might be saying "Ok Muhammad, how does that make a difference?" You take two or multiple shots (all depending on avail light and your preference); for ex: one exposed for the moon, and one exposes for the foreground/sky, and you manually or automatically blend them in a post processing program like Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom. I personally use both for processing but Photoshop for the blending part.
The challenge described above presents itself here, not enough for foreground exposure, yet the moon has enough exposure. It's a trade-off between what's worth exposing more of since equal amount of exposure was insurmountable subject to the moon rise,time and place of this shot.
