as the moon rose it had a pretty orange color to it so I thought I would go see what I could do with it. I don't have a telephoto lens so I though I would try to catch the colors in the sky and make a silouette. I had never tried something like this before so by the time I got it figured out and started getting some good shots the moon had risen and the color was gone. I still liked how some of them came out. It was really hard choosing which one to enter. My favorite had Venus right next to the tree and was very bright and distracting. If this was advanced editing I probably would have entered that one.
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This is a nice image. I like your idea by reding your description. To make it even better, here is what I would have tried:
I am sure you used a tripod, so longer times are possible. The image is a bit too dark. Longer time would allow the clouds and stars to become more pornounced and the colour of the sky a bit brighter blue. Since this is a silluette, it would not effect the darkness of the tree, and even if it did, a bit of colour or detail would not spoil it.
Now with the composition, I would have included less foreground on the bottom, since it is just a black mass (about half less) and then include more of the wonderful sky with flowing clouds. The longer the time, the longer and more softer the clouds would be which would show a nice swooshy movement.
I like the way you hid the moon behind the tree.
In post processing, try to increase the contrast a tiny bit (through levels or curves) - that will help with colour as well. Be careful when doing it so it does not create colour noise (common in night images).
Another 30 seconds on the shutter may have done more justice to this scene. Also, I might have been tempted to put the base of the tree at the very bottom of the image.
I like the sky, the light and the idea of this silhouette. The big black space at the bottom doesn't fit for me, and i wish i could see the tree from another perspective, but that was probabbly hard because of the light, i guess. Maybe you could have used more levels to help the colors of the sky too. I'm not very experient but that is my point of view, sorry if i was rude in any way! Good luck to you!
I love night photography (assuming that's what this is). Very beautiful with the clouds in the sky, which give a nice sense of the immense size of the tree.
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