I overexposed the shots so that I reduced the shadows on the east side of the buildings as I had a low westerly sun. Then when I edited them the sky was, of course, way over exposed and I couldn’t use it as it was.
So I did a single exposure tone mapping in Photomatix to improve the highlights, but still thought it looked like a nuclear bomb had exploded in the western suburbs, so I added a pink-red blush with a gradient filter to the sky so that it looked more like a nuclear blast.

I really liked the overall effect of the colours of the buildings, as it has a slightly surreal image to it, and interestingly one of the comments rightly asked is it a model city. I am sometimes called a model citizen, but it isn’t a model city.

So always look at turning a blemish into a feature.

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