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Geoff F
Generally speaking, Manfred, I am not overly keen on polarizers because of the light loss when I am already shooting at the minimum acceptable shutter speed and increasing Iso would have produced excessive noise. This was a case of poor light conditions; which is why I did some bracketed exposures for a merge. Each exposure was individually edited with ACR before the merge. I tried to boost the Vibrance a little while keeping blacks on the dark side. My last bit of editing in Photoshop was to slightly and selectively boost the highlights.
Possibly, I could try to use some Blend Mode editing on the final edit but my experience of using it to boost poor light images tends to suggest that this method needs careful use to prevent an overly harsh artificial looking result.