Wow, two separate posts from Stovepipe in Death Valley. I happened to be there when you get that rare lighting condition with a full moon setting right at dawn. Unfortunately, it was not quite perfect and for anybody that takes these moon shots, the dilemma is always how to expose for very low light and not blow out the moon. Well to answer the question before it is asked, yes this moon was dropped in. However, it is the same moon that was shining then. What I did was to take the shot twice, exposing for the scene and then for the moon. Then in a sort of extreme HDR, I dropped the properly exposed moon into the properly exposed scene. This was about the best I could do.