Hi! Sorry for English, I've studied French in elementary school and it was tooo long ago... I can barely read... don't mention writing)))
That's My photo in first post)))
Just wanted to add my 2 cents to your discussion.
Here's How I did this photo:
I used: Tripod, polarizing filter, Grad ND*8 cokin filter.

In fact I forgot a Cokin Holder at home and had to hanheld the filter in front of the lens.
My camera was accidentally switched to S-Jpeg mode... so no post processing was applied(no HDR, tonemapping and other fancy tricks)
When I returned to re-shot the scene... well I got a completelly different scene Vuoksa at dawn | Flickr*: partage de photos*!