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Rising Moon with Jupiter & Saturn (July 5, 2020).jpg

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On the evening of July 5, 2020, the Moon, then a day past full, rose located just below the pairing of Jupiter (brightest at right) and Saturn, for an eye-catching conjunction of sorts. This captures the scene that is an easy one to see but a tough one to photograph due to the huge range in brightness between the Moon and darker sky and clouds.

Using high-dynamic range (HDR) blending (attempted with Camera Raw and with Aurora HDR 2019) uttterly failed, producing noisy and off-colour results. Aurora HDR was particularly bad. Instead, this is an exposure blend using luminosity masks using ADP Pro v3 extension panel. Even at that, each image layer’s mask needed a lot of custom tweaking of Levels, Feathering and Blend mode. This is a blend of 7 exposures from 1/640 sec to 6 seconds, so a huge range for an HDR. With the 85mm Rokinon lens and Canon 6D MkII.
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On the evening of July 5, 2020, the Moon, then a day past full, rose located just below the pairing of Jupiter (brightest at right) and Saturn, for an eye-catching conjunction of sorts. This captures the scene that is an easy one to see but a tough one to photograph due to the huge range in brightness between the Moon and darker sky and clouds. <br /> <br /> Using high-dynamic range (HDR) blending (attempted with Camera Raw and with Aurora HDR 2019) uttterly failed, producing noisy and off-colour results. Aurora HDR was particularly bad. Instead, this is an exposure blend using luminosity masks using ADP Pro v3 extension panel. Even at that, each image layer’s mask needed a lot of custom tweaking of Levels, Feathering and Blend mode. This is a blend of 7 exposures from 1/640 sec to 6 seconds, so a huge range for an HDR. With the 85mm Rokinon lens and Canon 6D MkII.