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Lighting the Night, Shannon Calvert

Lighting the Night

Lighting the Night, Shannon Calvert

Lighting the Night

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My second attempt to shoot the full moon rising behind the Statue of Liberty– this time with a new camera and much better sky conditions (the moon was completely obscured by clouds 30 minutes later). There were about 40 photographers scrambling for the right positions as the moon moved across the statue, and I got lucky with the torch alignment. My camera was fast enough to allow near-continuous shooting in HDR mode while saving the original bracketed RAW files. The image stabilization was very steady, and I simply blended the 3 exposures to bring out background detail without blowing the highlights. Very happy with how it turned out.

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Lighting the Night, Shannon Calvert