The other day I saw a composition I just had to capture as the moon was setting. In my eyes, I see the composition as something completely different than what the lens may capture at times.
What I saw was waning moon setting over a Mondrian inspired paint job on a common Southwestern Adobe architectural style. The moon through the lens turned out to be further away than I would have liked though.
I started off trying to increase the size of the moon captured, but hit the limits of quality pixels no matter which way I tried to work it. So I had to borrow a moon from a previous photo on an image with finer detail.
The image of the moon was captured with a Canon 5D IV and 50mm L 1.4. It took some adjustment to create the solid black and blues in Adobe RAW masking the moon for separate adjustments.
Easy enough I was able to create a selection around the moon and copy and paste it into the Apartment photos. Using a blend in the layer style with some adjustments I knocked out the dark background and set the opacity to 70%. And wahlah… But wait. There was also the pesky tree that I had to remove. To me I say I flexed some Photoshop skills because it appears realistic and unremarkable.
To get the second image it was a lot easier I simply copied and pasted the moon layer along with using the patch tool to hide the smaller moon.
