How to add that silver moonlight to an image?

[Mads Hildebrandt]

I was out yesterday at night and had the great super moon in my back. The light from the moon doesn’t really show on my image, how can I fake moonlight?

 

[Eggy]

Can you please upload your image to have an idea what it is you want?

 

[Mads Hildebrandt]

Yeah, well, this is my humble image. I would like to change the warm color to a more silvery moonlight color.

 

[JJLAPIN]

Are one of these in the direction you were looking for?

 

[Mads Hildebrandt]

You played with the cooling filters, right? Tried that myself. Well, the one in the middle is somewhat what I’m going for, but there must be a better way.

 

[Argos]

Fas try.. did it just now, it's hard to know exactly what you are exactly looking for. But this is my try.

To me there is a lot of light in the original photo for a realistic moonlight effect so i darkened a little .


Cheers!

 

[Eggy]

I'm not sure what you're after but with color selection I selected the whites from the sky and made them brighter.

 

[Mads Hildebrandt]

Argos, what you have done is more or less what I’m after, and also have done, just not to the image I uploaded. But I just wanted to know if there was some way to do it to make it as realistic as possible.

 

[Argos]

Sorry my english is not as good as it should XD, what's not realistic for you on the image?

 

[Argos]

Maybe you mean like this, this is realism for me (+-) in this picture.

 

[Mads Hildebrandt]

Argos, realistic was the wrong word to use. Yours it actually quite realistic. Now I have even confused myself a bit about what I’m after. Guess I would like to be able to create that moonlit atmosphere you typically would see in fantasymovies like Lord of the Rings kinda stuff. Maybe if I add some mist/fog here and there, I could make some moonrays going through. But I think that is a bit out of my capabilities. I just want the moonlight to be very obvious.

 

[Eggy]

From your description I would say something like this?

 

[Mads Hildebrandt]

Looks great, Eggy. Well, thank you all. I will see what I come up with. Problem is, I actually also like the image the way it is. But thanks again.

 

[Argos]

Argos, realistic was the wrong word to use. Yours it actually quite realistic. Now I have even confused myself a bit about what I’m after. Guess I would like to be able to create that moonlit atmosphere you typically would see in fantasymovies like Lord of the Rings kinda stuff. Maybe if I add some mist/fog here and there, I could make some moonrays going through. But I think that is a bit out of my capabilities. I just want the moonlight to be very obvious.

Thats diferent and harder to acomplish XD, you need a really good base, you can try to play with the ilumination but it's hard with this picture.

 

[RayBir]

From your description I would say something like this?

View attachment 81237

I do so like that "mist" effect.