Taken at Disney's Magic Kingdom in Orlando. I missed the sunset while we were waiting for some people to get off a ride and then I rushed over to get this before it got too dark.
This was particularly hard to process because the lights were constantly changing colors. I had more bracketed images but couldn't use them because the castle was blue and when combined it looked awful.
HDR in Artizen (+2, 0, -2) (less noise in shadows over Photomatix)
Tonemap in Photomatix (better tonemapping than Artizen)
tonemap another copy that's darker, overlay, and mask out everything but bright spots on castle
TONS of small color adjustments to even out color
clone out Tinkerbell's wire
blur front of water
flatten, create layer in soft light, fade
slight gradient on sky
crop
resize/sharpen
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Dang!! Why have I not been here yet!? Great photo. If you could get this same result with the blue glow of the sky.. but no clouds. it would be perfect. I think the clouds add too much realism to this fairy taleish (is that a word?) photo.
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