StanMac Loc: Tennessee

Simple. Select and copy the well exposed moon from its frame and paste it as an overlay on the moon in the frame with the visible golf course imagery.

Stan

ksmmike

I agree with all those that say you properly expose the foreground and maybe even the midground to it's own exposure and then the moon and blend the two or three images together. It's similar to HDR but I find you get more control and less noise when taking separate images and blending the areas that you want in a properly exposed image across the entire scene.

Mike

scsdesphotography Loc: Southeastern Michigan

Have you tried light painting the foreground? Set a several second delay for the shutter, expose for the moon and then use a strong flashlight to paint the trees.

toxdoc42

I don't have a strong enough flashlight. I did that with the ship photo I included, but the trees are just too far away. It would be cool to mount lights at the tree level, but that would be too costly for me.

photoman43

You have two challenges facing you:

1 Exposure for the moon requires "daylight" settings as the moon is reflected sunlight. Exposure for landscape features requires a different exposure based on "ambient light" present and how much detail you want revealed.

2. Lens to show the moon requires a much longer focal length than the lens to show the landscape features. On a full frame sensor camera the focal length for the moon could require 300mm to 700mm depending on how big you wanted the moon to be in the image. The landscape features might require a focal length of 24m to 50mm.

My solution using my Nikon cameras is to set Multiple Exposure and make two separate exposures and let the camera blend them into one. I can do this on a D800e, D500, D850, Z9. Using a tripod, and Multipole Exposure, the moon exposure might be ISO 200, f11, 1/200 with a 500mm lens.

The second exposure of the ME sequence is with a 24-85mm zoom lens, with a focal length set to capture the details wanted for the landscape. Exposure is set by the camera or by you depending on what you want revealed in the landscape.

Another option is to use Image Overlay in your camera and take two separate images and merge them into one.

Or do this in post processing.

ColonelButler Loc: Niagara-on-the-Lake ON Canada

There is a lunar equivalent to the "Sunny Sixteen" rule (shutter speed = 1/ISO at f16); the "Lunar Eleven" rule (shutter speed = 1/ISO AT f11). This will get you in the ballpark for a properly exposed moon. The foreground will require a radically different exposure and blending of the two images.

User ID

Amen to HDR and esPecially an amen to your NOT buying into all that widespread "bigger moon" foolishness. Silly amateurs are always *proudly* falsifying bigger moons, and those results always look stoopid :-(

Technically excellent but looks quite stoopid. Acoarst this won great praise in the Gallery.

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jamesl Loc: Pennsylvania

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Take two shots with the moon exposed properly in one shot and the rest of the scene exposed properly in the second shot. Then just combine the two to get what you are looking for. Like an HDR picture.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

Depending on your equipment, you can take images of the moon in raw and then remember where in the scene the moon was, then using raw again, take another image of what ever you want, and then you can combine any of the two images you have using the same memory card. I usually take many images of the moon at different corners and different sizes using my zoom lens or telephoto. You must remember to use RAW and make sure all the images are on the same memory card. Nikon allows you then to combine any two shots on the card.
Back in the day Kodak called this, "Moons in the refrigerator", you took a roll of film, shot the moon, then put your film in the frig and waited for a day you wanted to take a landscape with the same roll of film, it was hit or miss and with the newer digital camera's it became a breeze. Below is an example of what I did with my Nikon d850, a 500mm lens on the moon, and a 24-120 f4 lens of the balloons.
Good luck and keep on shooting until the end.

toxdoc42

I do wonder what the difference is between HDR and multiple images? I will try both next time the opportunity arises.

User ID

There is no image attached to your posting, but a 500mm moon does NOT usually work credibly with a 24-120mm landscape.

Below is a typical bad example (Is it yours ?).

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JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

For HDR you take several shots of the same scene at different exposures which are combined in software to assure detail in both shadows and highlights. Multiple images you can take a portion of a photo and paste it into another photo, like shooting a photo of the moon at the correct exposure and focus, take a photo of the landscape at the correct exposure and focus, select just the moon and paste it into the landscape positioning it over the overexposed moon.

Stephan G

Another way to go is to bracket your separate area shots to get good starting points for what you intend. HDR is a form of bracketing in that one can select the variants when processing.

The salient thing to remember is to experiment patiently. Do not let the process get in your way.

toxdoc42

But if you keep the image the same and simply change exposure, is it the exact same thing as HDR?

JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

If you process it with HDR software.