The Blue Hour

An experiment using HDR during the blue hour to see if using different exposures late can help bring out details in the foreground.
It can, but I found that the photo took on a daytime appearance when I brought in details. So, yes, this is a heavily processed attempt to create a blue hour shot.
This is three shots merged together.
Camera is still sick so I am still working solely with JPEG which does not help either!
Had fun doing it and learned a lot for next time so not a total waste of time.
BoB

[Lisa Poland]

Beautiful!

[Nadiya Bilovodenko]

Lovely

[Sally Ings]

Nice atmosphere. I hope that you can get your camera sorted soon.

[Casablanca]

Interesting to read your thought process as you worked on this. Well done

[haydn morris]

HDR is great but very easily overdone - but if you get the balance just right it can be fantastic - love the colours here

[Joan Robillard]

Gorgeous

[Lou Ann]

This is lovely, Wendy!

[Paul]

Lovely sky. I bet this is a lovely scene too, in the daytime :-)

[Henri Russell]

Beautiful merging.

[Pat Knowles]

It's hard to take almost dark photos, I have tried but can never manage, I blame my camera!

[Dawn]

Beautiful

[Kathy]

I like the shades of blue and violet.

[Sandi]

Nice work! The foreground details stand out nicely here...