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Between Two Realities
kanaj


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Challenge: Composite IV (Extended Editing*)
Collection: Portfolio
Camera: Canon EOS M200
Lens: Canon EF-M 55-200mm f/4.5-6.3 IS STM
Location: Lee County, Texas (USA)
Date: Jun 11, 2025
Aperture: 6.4
ISO: 100
Shutter: 1/1024
Date Uploaded: Jun 11, 2025

 This is my first stab at making a composite in any serious sense. Not sure if this will render as evocative and surreal or just, well, dumb-looking.

This is from two source images. One is the daytime horizon with clouds:



The other is a zoom shot of the moon:




Essentially what I did was invert the colors of the daytime shot and meticulously color-swap to create a passable "nighttime" facsimile into which I could add the moon:




Then I layered the daytime shot on top of the "nighttime" shot with some gradient layer masking. I was somewhat inspired for this by the concept of the multiverse--and what it might look like if the veil between parallel realities were to become somewhat permeable.

NOTE: I used two different cameras for this. The camera specified in the description is the one used for the main horizon. The moon was shot with a manual-only zoom lens on my Canon 7D.

Statistics
Place: 5 out of 20
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Votes: 29
Comments: 3
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AuthorThread
 06/23/2025 09:28:17 AM
You created a magnificent image, so beautiful and edited like a dream. Congratulations.
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 Comments Made During the Challenge
06/22/2025 02:15:05 PM
Yes!
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 06/20/2025 08:05:00 AM
Very nice imagery and discovery.
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