[Leica] Moonrise, Jersey City, New Jersey

[jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)]

http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jbm/pwigomlaap/jbm-20091224-m9a-002-4.jpg.html

I though this looked cool, but I didn't have a lens with me long enough
to make the moon look anywhere near as big in the picture as it did to
my naked eye.  (Actually, does it ever?)  So I shot with the 50mm I had,
and present here a tiny crop (actual camera pixel resolution if you hit
the "full size" button, which I recommend) from the frame.  I like the
colors, and fiddled with contrast and color characteristics in Lightroom
to try to make it feel even more like I was shooting good ol' Velvia --
even gave it a touch of Rabiner-esque gradient darkening of the sky --
and only hope I managed to stop somewhere short of cartoonish.

 -Jeff