Here Comes the Moon

The moon rising over Lake Monona in Madison WI with beautiful, moody colors in the sky.

I love the tools available in Adobe Lightroom. I usually steer clear of Lightroom's "recovery" slider because it can make an image look flat, though it does have the ability to recover some details within 1-2 stops on the far edges of the histogram, in the highlights and shadows.

In this case sliding the Recovery slider all the way to 100 (in Lightroom 4 this should go to 101) brought back some detail in the face of the moon, as I had exposed the image for the sky, and therefore the moon was still blown out. It's so nice to be able to do things like this.

In this case, nothing else in the image was affected because there's no detail elsewhere, so there was no downside.