This is an image I'm rather particularly proud of, as it is probably my most successful experiment with HDR (high dynamic range) photography ever. And funnily, I didn't use anything like Photomatix or Qtpfsgui to compose it — this was entirely done in Photoshop.

When I took the initial set of three photos that I had intended to stitch together, I exposure-bracketed the shots by +/- 2 eV, which is a huge range of exposure values. That resulted in one image in which the buildings were very properly exposed (as was the hillside), and in which the background was entirely washed out; it was the easiest thing to use the "magic wand" selection tool to remove the sky from that image. The other shot had a properly exposed sky, and placing the buildings overtop of that image was similarly easy.

A bit of egde blurring to blend things together was matched by some negative Clarity adjustments in Lightroom, giving the image a slightly diffuse, dream-like effect. I also (as the Reader can doubtless see) tweaked the colour saturations a fair bit, in particular focusing on bringing out a deep blue sky (visible, in places, through the clouds).

Anyhow, I'm proud of this one. And if the reader is interested, I'm open to the idea of selling higher-resolution copies of the shot.