A Moonrise Photo That Combines Day and Night

This photo may look like a Photoshopped image that blends a sunrise with a nighttime shot, but it’s actually a single exposure of a moonrise.

Photographer Jeremy Somerville tells PetaPixel that made the photo last night while photographing the Milky Way from a beach. The moon started rising, and he decided to take some shots of the moonrise with the same camera settings he was using to properly expose the stars (15-30 seconds at f/2.8 and ISO 1600, he says).

After liking what he saw in a test shot, Somerville started his 10 second camera timer, sprinted into the scene, and ended up with the picture seen above.

“The result looked so much like a sunrise but you could also see the stars, which I thought was really cool,” he says. “The Moon was about 3/4 full. This is a single exposure, only minor contrast/colour adjustments in Lightroom.”

He’s planning to return to the beach and try his hand at building on this idea to see if he can create something “even cooler.”

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Image credits: Photographs by Jeremy Somerville and used with permission