Try playing around with HDR for photos like this; the detail in the darker areas is getting lost, and using ALL the pixel information will make a real difference I think.

If you’ve got an iPhone, you can turn on the HDR setting on the camera now, or even use an app to capture one.

Used to be we had to use specialized software, or try to laboriously line up the layers and then merge in Photoshop. Gah! Weird light & fringing, and surreal effects with supersaturated colors happened a LOT.