Description
I photographed the moon rising behind a church for the first time, with my great friend Ben Kapur showing me the ropes, and in this video I take you through the camera sttings and the whole edit in Lightroom, DxO PureRAW 6 and Photoshop.
00:00 Chasing the moonrise
00:54 The final print
01:39 Kit: Canon R5 Mark II and 400mm f/2.8
02:14 Planned settings vs what I actually used
03:25 The out-of-camera raw file
03:51 Moon behind the church or off to the side?
04:44 Dealing with the noise at ISO 2500
05:36 Noise reduction in DxO PureRAW 6
08:24 Back in Lightroom with the Adaptive Color profile
09:15 Why noise reduction smooths away fine detail
10:26 High Pass to bring back the brick detail
12:00 Masking the detail to the church only
14:05 Adding glow to the moon in Camera Raw
15:26 Poetic licence: adding the birds
16:36 Cutting out the birds
17:24 Removing the sky with Blend If
19:13 Turning a Blend If layer into a regular layer
20:40 Darkening the birds
21:28 Final print
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