Okay, so there's this tree that I've been eyeing up for the last few years and last night i happened to drive by it with the moon overhead and just figured i
had to try to get the shot. So i went home and grabbed my tripod and came back. I used an old Sears 28mm lens (all i had with me were that lens, and a 135 and a 200) and had taken exposures of 10 seconds, 20 seconds, and 30 seconds. there are 2 major issues i have with the image. The first and most important is the over exposure of the moon itself. the second is the flare from the moon.
my big question is this...what could i do to get a long enough exposure so the tree and sky are visible and interesting, while at the same time not over exposing the moon? one answer could be to take two images...one exposed for the tree and one for the moon...and then attempt to blend them together but i don't know that my pp skills are up to that challenge. Also, i took this shot at f/11 but could have gone down to f/22. Would it have been beneficial for me to have stopped down (is that the correct term?) further?
Had i planned this better, i most likely would have used one of my 50mm or 55mm lenses and in a perfect world probably would have gotten closer to the tree itself (it's on private property and i was standing on someone driveway when taking the shot).
any and all comments are appreciated! Thanks for your time :-)