It doesn’t look like it at all, but this is actually an HDRI picture. It’s pretty hard to get much info out of a sunset without using ND filters, so shooting it in a range of different exposures and than linear tone-mapping those works really well, as you can see here.
Sunset., originally uploaded by MK Media Productions.
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