This one needed a bit of EV down to prevent overexposure of the buildings and perhaps to get a bit of deeper blue on th sky. Still acceptable to me, since the water steals the show here.
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Many many thanks for the nice detailed comment, Michali!
As you said, we have to do with extreme light differences here. Too high light on the top, too low light at the bottom. And thus, there is no other way than to allow some overexposure and undrexposure at the best possible compromise. It is not a uniformly high or low light that makes that so hard to get it right, but rather the presence of both.
For me the best possible compromise would be to correct some EV down, making the sky and the facades a bit better and allowing the water to get a bit darker, since it would pressumably still keep most of its deep blue color and the highlighted reflections. The attached image was altered in PS by darkening the highlights. I think that it comes close to what a correction of some EV down could bring at shooting time.
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