It's the moon! It had just risen, and was very close to the horizon. It was quite orange in the original, so I desaturated some yellow channel to get it white. Some ambient light from the setting sun and fill flash.
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This is one difficult scene to pull off! I bet people vote you down and here is why I think:
The green is a bit dark, the sky is dark and the moon is dark.
But let me tell you this, I think this is pretty good, and I know it's very difficult to do, because the moon is very hard to expose correctly, let alone getting in dark elements as the tree. and both seem exposed correctly, so you have all my credit! I'm giving you a 10, and hope you do better then I suspect.
moon is difficult to shoot, you have to underexpose with a fast shutter and then bump up in photoshop with levels and curves. Nice attempt, sadly the photo is lacking any real punch in my opinion.
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