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It's unusual to get a photograph wherein the both the subject
and the moon come out correct with the same exposure. You might
not think so because the internet is plastered with scenic moon
photos wherein the moon looks perfect. But in most of them the
moon was shot independently and then copied and pasted into the
scenery, often in such an exaggerated size that the image
howls to me that it never existed in real life. Nowadays good
cameras also have the ability to expose various elements of the
image differently and automatically combine the elements for
you, though you may not always be happy with the results. What's
especially unusual about this photo is that it was shot with
color transparency film and then later scanned into a digital
image. I could do no manipulation to the image while it was
being captured and I could not even see how the image turned out
until I returned home and developed the film. Nor have I done
any photoshopping of the moon in the new digitalized version.
I did spend an hour in photoshop carefully cleaning off all the
dust particles. I had no pressurized air hose when I scanned my
slides, and this photo, like most of my scans, got covered with
tiny dust particles when I removed it from the page it was
archived in. With today's technology you could likely capture
the the foreground trees at the proper exposure, either
combining the elements during the exposure or later at the
computer, but I think this photograph looks exquisite with the stark contrast of the black
silhouette. This image, along with many others that I have been
posting, is one that I obtained about ten years ago when I
returned to the U.S. and scanned my old color slides. The
process was so slow that, even working 12 hours a day for 7 full
days, I was only able to scan 900 digital images to bring back
to Thailand with me. Unfortuantely, for many of them the scanner
did not focus accurately enough to even give me an suitable
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