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I took this shot at the Grand Canyon, during a trip there in November of 2002.
This shot was taken along the South Rim, shortly after sundown. The tree
is some kind of conifer. I think the shot has a nice "mood" to it.
This shot was taken in manual mode, since the camera's automatic settings would
have no clue what I was hoping to do with this shot. There was still quite
a bit more available light when I took this shot -- I used a fast shutter to
create the nighttime effect. The remaining sunlight allowed for the blue
cast in the "nighttime" sky.
In auto mode, the camera would have either tried to adjust to the brightness of
the moon (forcing the rest of the scene to black), or adjusted to get more color
in the tree, thereby washing out the moon and sky. My camera's shutter and
aperture priority modes would have been equally ineffective in this scenario.
I put this shot through some pretty heavy post-processing in Photoshop, mainly because I wanted to
publish it as full-screen wallpaper. The level of "noise" in the shot was
fine at this size, and would also be fine for most prints. But at 1280x960, it
looked very noisy. The challenge was to blur the noise, without loosing
the details in the moon and tree. Free-form selection tool to the rescue.
I used it to draw around the tree and moon. I then blurred the sky with
reckless abandon, and used the inverse selection to sharpen the tree and moon a
little. I concluded with a small blur brush on the intricate portions of
the sky closer to the tree. My pain, your gain.
This image is available as wallpaper.
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Camera: Olympus E-10
Mode: Manual
Metering: n/a (Center-weighed Average)
Shutter Speed: 1/40 sec
Aperture: f6.3
ISO: 80
Focal Length: 30mm
Contrast and Sharpness were set to normal.
Original File Size: 2240 x 1680, 2,540K at 1/4 Compression
The camera was fitted with a Hoya HMC UV(0) filter.
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