Did not know that . Good to know . <| sep |> Its like you tell some one to not do something . they will do exactly this thing <| sep |> Your composition is pretty solid . The processing not quite so much , though I think it is pretty typical for first time HDR . It ' s suffering heavily from haloing and oversaturation . And trust me , it is possible to go for the heavy , trippy HDR approach that you seem to be trying in this pic without having either of those problems . Take this , for example . ysumqH 8 rUDoVbezIHAMNQIAAAAAAABuc 0 Nu 56 xd 3 zbfss 0 HDRUSSMidwayuhd . jpg Literally the first Google image result I could find for ' HDR . ' It is quite saturated , and it does bring up the maximum amount of detail from everything in the frame , but it ' s not saturated anywhere to the point of information loss , and for the most part there is no haloing that is , the light and colors from certain objects in the frame mostly aren ' t affecting other things in the frame . In your pic , if you fixed the two main issues of the heavy haloing around the building that you can see on the sky , and if you desaturated the very front of the building a bit where everything is super super red , you would see an immediate and dramatic improvement in the overall quality of the image . Probably the easiest way to do this and still keep the dramatic HDR look that you seem to want overall for the pic , would be to process a version of it with very light or even no HDR , and then mask that in for just the sky if you have Photoshop that should be easy , if you don ' t . that ' ll be trickier . I think if you do that , you ' ll be very happy with the results you get .