Edinburgh sunset from Jacobs Ladder

[stupar]

Taken from Jacob's Ladder, this was 3 bracketed shots run through Photomatix then exported to Photoshop as a TIFF file for final tweaks.

Does anyone have any top tips on how to stop these shots looking a bit flat? I tweaked the curves and boosted the contrast slightly to help but it still looks a tad flat.

Comments welcome as always and thanks for looking.

 

[Mank]

You can tell its been HDR'd but I think it works quite well. Not over done.

I would suggest increasing the blacks a touch though, I think it might give you that something you were after.

 

[stupar]

You can tell its been HDR'd but I think it works quite well. Not over done.

I would suggest increasing the blacks a touch though, I think it might give you that something you were after.

Cheers Rob,
Yeah HDR was the only option to get the whole scene exposed correctly due to lack of ND grads.

Will try and punch the blacks up slightly.
Cheers!