USAFA Under the Moon

Continuing with the Night/Twilight photos of USAFA, I shot USAFA Under the Moon, just a couple minutes after USAFA Chapel at Night, USAFA at Twilight and USAFA Before Dawn.

As you can see the rich blue that lit up USAFA Before Dawn left already. The blue phenomenon lasted only a couple minutes at most. With Aperture 2 and Photoshop along with other photo editing software you can bring the blue back by adjusting the blue levels color correction.

From the Aperture 2 User's Manual: Using Levels for Color Correction-A powerful way to color correct an image is to adjust the levels of each color channel in the image. Adjusting the levels of each color channel is useful for removing color casts in an image. It’s important to understand that you’re adjusting the colors of the image within the RGB spectrum; therefore, you reduce yellow when you increase blue, you reduce magenta when you increase green, and so on.

This is what makes USAFA Before Dawn such an impressive photo. USAFA Before Dawn didn't require any blue level color correction.

At this point in the morning, you also get a neat effect from the 30 second exposure. It looks bright out relatively speaking while the lights of USAFA still show up brightly. Under normal circumstances the lights of USAFA wouldn't show up as well.

ISO 100, f/6.3, 30 second exposure, -.7 exposure, focal length 20mm