12 Photographing Moonlit Landscapes
A moonlit walk in the wilderness is an enchanting experience. The world is familiar yet transformed. The light seems to have a silvery, bluish quality. Shadows are inky black. When the moon is full, the beam of your headlamp becomes a barrier between you and the magic of moonlight. Turn your head-lamp off and pause for a few minutes. Once your eyes have dark-adapted, a headlamp is only necessary if you’re hiking through a forest or through deep shade in the depths of a canyon. Learning to make evocative images by the light of the moon opens up yet another realm of nighttime landscape photography.
In this chapter I’ll concentrate on techniques for creating images where the stars are rendered as points rather ...
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