July 9, 2011 -- Half-moon night

Half moons are nice. There is brightness, but much more muted than the full moon. Saturday night was a half-moon and I thought I would try to capture some more nighttime shots.  Tripod in hand, I shot a few of the sky and then just one of the house.  I like the house outcome much better than any of the shots I took of the half-moon sky. I used no flash and no fill in post-processing. The only major adjustments were to crop (I removed a tree on the right that darkened the image) and I adjusted the temperature downward to 2400 ^ok.

f3.5 | 14s | ISO 400 | Nikon D200 | Nikkor 24-120mm