2. There are slivers of time around the time of the full moon where you can including the natural moon in a landscape image with getting detail in both moon and sky. I do not know exactly when those times are, I’m still experimenting, but I would trust what Royce Blair says in his helpful article Into The Nigh Photography. His conclusion on the slivers of time you can do this are: “1. The night before the full moon, the moon rises just a few minutes before the sun sets; and 2. the morning of the full moon, the moon sets just before the sun is starting to rise. During these two periods, there is just enough ambient light from the setting and rising sun to give detail to the surrounding landscape — otherwise, it is too dark, and the contrast range is too great to record anything but blackness around the moon.”
I successfully shot a moon + landscape together using that technique.
The picture I took is really bad when talking of a composition. I didn’t have time to go outside with my camera so I just experimented in the kitchen taking photos through the window. The moon in the attached picture is very small, but I attached also a picture of the moon in full size resolution.
Note : I underexposed severely the photos (-1 2/3) because the moon would appeared yellow although it showed details but there wasn’t enough contrast.
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