Full Moonlight Hour

[Archangel]

Re: Full Moonlight Hour

George,
Haunting! I like it!
Jennifer

Jennifer,

I was just waiting to see who will be that someone, if any, that will say the other alternative of the Moonlight look, which is indeed "Haunting"!
The similarities of how these effects are connected with each other have been presented even in movies, e.g "Wolfman", "Invisible Man", e.t.c

Excellent Jennifer! Spot on!


Regards

George

[joefoto]

Re: Full Moonlight Hour

George,

I really like your latest version. The brightness of the rocks tends to fit my expectations more than the original.

If the moon provides enough light for driving, does it also separate colors? If so, that would set a lower limit on saturation changes. (I seem to recall that green is the final color to maintain its identity as illumination reduces.)

BTW, in the last version I sent, all changes were applied globally EXCEPT for isolating and darkening the sky. I had tried separating into 3 parts, sky, land, and water, and found nothing that satisfied me.

Overall, George, I tend to favor a conversion to B&W and some work with curves. OH, yes, and regarding the sky, the moon tends to illuminate the clouds, and, if not full clouds, stars may just be becoming visible, too.

One thing you might try is to play with a simulation closer in timing to sundown, while there is still some color in the sky and individual objects retain their identity and some amount of coloration.

Joe

p.s. This has been fun! And it's given me some incentive for working more with my image editors. Thanks, George.

[Archangel]

Re: Full Moonlight Hour

George,

I really like your latest version. The brightness of the rocks tends to fit my expectations more than the original.

If the moon provides enough light for driving, does it also separate colors? If so, that would set a lower limit on saturation changes. (I seem to recall that green is the final color to maintain its identity as illumination reduces.)

BTW, in the last version I sent, all changes were applied globally EXCEPT for isolating and darkening the sky. I had tried separating into 3 parts, sky, land, and water, and found nothing that satisfied me.

Overall, George, I tend to favor a conversion to B&W and some work with curves. OH, yes, and regarding the sky, the moon tends to illuminate the clouds, and, if not full clouds, stars may just be becoming visible, too.

One thing you might try is to play with a simulation closer in timing to sundown, while there is still some color in the sky and individual objects retain their identity and some amount of coloration.

Joe

p.s. This has been fun! And it's given me some incentive for working more with my image editors. Thanks, George.

Hi Joe,

Thanks again for commenting.
Indeed the full moonlight tends to bright things up a lot and it can separate colors somehow, not of course like at anytime. During moonlighting the colors are on the cool side as I previously mentioned.

Yes the moon tends to illuminate the clouds if present, but during full moon stars are not visible (apart from 2-3 stars that are bigger in size with stronger lighting than the others) due to the intense moon lighting and due to the weak star lighting.

I have experimenting many times at times closer to sundown (around 2 hours after sundown) as you insisted. The results are very pleasing at that time and here is a panoramic shot in December 2 years ago. Sunset around 4:30 pm during winter time and photo taken around 5:45 pm.





And this one is with intense moonlight light on. Observe the buildings in the back rows where they are not related to the front with the street lighting. They have this bluish cool color the moonlight produces. Shutter was 2 seconds only and enough to blow out the street lighting!





Thanks again Joe for experimenting and helping out.


Regards

George