One night in February 2025, I had to go out. Looking at the sky, I saw the gorgeous full moon behind a very thin layer of dull clouds. Instantly I knew what I had to capture this show. Also, in postproduction, I would have to enhance the color of the clouds.

I went back inside the house to get my camera and my 840 mm lens.

I put my camera in spot metering mode. Handheld, I focused on the moon. To achieve a perfect exposure (ETTR), I overexposed the scene by 3 stops! Before pressing the shutter, the camera indicated that ISO 6400 would be used, and the shutter speed would be 1/50 sec. Knowing LR's capabilities to reduce noise using AI, I was not worried. Also, my Olympus gear has great stabilisation features, so I did not feel the need to use my tripod.

After taking the shot, I went directly to my computer to process the image. Read carefully what I have done.
1) In the LR mask section, I asked LR to find a subject in the scene. LR found the moon, I set the following settings:
a) Highlights -82
b) Whites +35
c) Shadows +100

In the effects section:
Texture +100
Clarity +100
Dehaze +16

2) To select the whole scene except the moon, I duplicated and inverted the preceding mask and performed the following.
Dehaze -13 (had the effect to amplify the thin cloud density
Color temp -40 Had the effect to give a blue tint to the dull clouds

Then I pressed the AUTO button in LR to perform all the other adjustments automatically.

Finally, LR processed for noise reduction. The final looks like a full moon captured at blue hour time.

In preparation for a show the artists are made up. I did the same for this moon show!