Wahawk wrote:
This would be my take, just adjusting the sky/clouds and then the shadows under the car and that super dark front wheel well.
I simply used your "HDR" version as a base, then added a layer where I made the adjustments. Then moved my adjusted layer to the back and used the background eraser to remove the original sky and shadow areas from the original layer.
Nice job. However I really do not care much for the color casting happening in the parking lot nor the sky. I do like the darker sky. As far as the wheel is concerned, I did not really see anything of interest in the wheel well so left it dark. Your interpretation really brings out the detail there.