gogzy:
bit too much use of photoshop for my liking.
I know what you mean but I didn’t use Photoshop. I used a program called ‘Photomatrix’. It combines more than one image to create a ‘High Dynamic Range’ image, HDR. Using this process it reduces the darker bits of the image to show the full colour.
There are several ways of doing it. You can extract the information from one RAW image that the camera takes or actually take the photos at 1, 2 or 3 EV stops apart.
These were taken as ‘one’ photo and the image information extracted from the RAW file.



Whilst these were created by taking the different images, ie -2, 0 and +2 ev stops where the camera decides what is best for 0.

This is what I drive for a living, well, this company and type of vehicle anyway. It also looks a tad over exposed in that image. Because I am taking them at night I often have no control over the lighting and have to make do with where the lamp posts are and where the vehicle is. A lot of the time the important bits are out of my control 

Lake Worcester

Fancy trying to light up the whole of the church with your camera? No, it won’t work. By underexposing by two stops then over exposing as well it shows the detail.

Trying to get the sky, landscape and vehicles properly exposed is probably impossible with this sort of image. But I tried and it came out well, don’t you think 
There are a lot of times when a normal image will do, whether it be a long night exposure or a short daytime one but I do like the HDR process as a lot of the times it brings out colours you wouldn’t normally see. And, erm, I don’t actually know how to use Photoshop that well 
I try and get it as right as I can with the camera, take the photos, use Photomatrix or other small tools to get the result that I want and then that’s it.
I’ve tried with timelapse too. I’ve used a ‘startrails’ program for that! I’ve tried long exposures of over 20 minutes too. Those are quite amazing!