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Thank you all for the comments. Post-processing is probably the part of my imaging chain that I know the least about, but I'm enjoying trying to find a voice with it.
I tried it with the images the other way around, as RustyBug and FarmerJohn suggested, and it creates a more harmonious diptych--a word I love, but which I don't think I've seen since college, thanks AuntiPode!--but feels wrong in my head. I can't quite put my finger on why. Perhaps because doing that splits the city center out to either side. Or, perhaps because the story of "into the city in the morning, out of the city at night" reads from left to right and describes how most of my days flow.
Here's a second draft. I treated the "by night" side with the same general approach that the "by morning" side already had: lower local contrast with raised global contrast. Also, lightened it up a bit and straightened the buildings. Getting closer, I think.
Portland by Morning, Portland by Night, draft 2 copy by jpb@pdx, on Flickr
Cheers,
Jon
Edit: good eye, Rusty. I pulled out the blue (as well as the waves, though that isn't too visible in this low-res version) in the image on the right, and adjusted the white balance in the clouds. Too much?
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