About the Image(s)

Shot at 15.5mm on my Nikon Z 14-40. The light was quickly changing so I took a five bracket shot of this all at ISO 400, f/11 at 30, 13, 5, 2, 0.8 seconds. Given the dynamic range of my camera, I was able to use two of them to get the final blend. The first one I selected was for the water and pier (13 seconds) and the second for the sky (5 seconds). My vision was to smooth the waves to get a reflection of the colors in the sky a well as the pier.

Processing in Lightroom:
Sky image: Decreased exposure a tiny bit, increased mahsodw, decreased whites and increase blacks. I also increase the vibrance a bit and decreased saturation.
Water and pier:
Increased shadows and whites and increased the blue saturation a tiny bit in Calibration.

Once the basics were completed, I opened as smart object layers in PS. Once in PS, I masked the pier and water out on the sky layer to see if the edits in PS worked together. Once that was completed and I tweaked a few more minor settings in PS, I added a brightness and contrast layer to increase the contrast a tiny bit on everything but the pier. I removed a tiny slice of land on the left horizon, darkened the foreground a tiny bit with a grad filter, added a Photo Filter to warm up the highlights a tiny bit. Once all that was completed, I flattened the image as I wanted to straighten the two front piers to be parallel so I used perspective warp to straighten the pier legs. The final step was adding a vignette to the image.