Rush hour, magic hour

How it was made

1. 1

   Straighten and crop

   Rotated 1.5°, cropped to 4:5

2. 2

   Tone

   Curve for deeper blacks, saturation +12, light sharpen

3. 3

   Blur plates

   Three readable license plates blurred

4. 4

   Select the sky

   AI sky selection, 44.5% of the frame

5. 5

   Dramatic sky

   Depth curve, saturation +35, warmer midtones, darker top, all inside the sky

6. 6

   Blue up top

   Blue lifted and red trimmed in the upper sky; the orange glow left alone

7. 7

   Dehaze

   Contrast and saturation in a soft band along the skyline

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