Fall out West

[spacefuzz]

Last weekend was my last fall color trip of the year. Now Im sad I have to wait another 45ish weeks to see red and golden leaves!
Id love your burtal and honest feedback on these, and as always thanks for looking!

1. North Lake. 3 shot stitch using 14-24 as a storm broke at sunset. Used a GND so no HDR. Is it too much pano? Do the foreground trees get lost?


2. The Watchman. Photo of the watchman over the virgin river at sunset. Not the traditional view, but there were only 2 other photographers here
Single shot with 5 stops of GND filters. Im worried the filter darkened the trees too much, what do you think?

 

[Frequency]

Looks unnatural; but so lovely my kind of saturations

 

[MLeeK]

I really love them both.
The color seems really un-natural on the second. I'd say no, the trees are very nice in this one
The first one is a bit to the same un-natural color, but I still really like it. It feels a bit dark to me. No. Not too much pano. Love the pano!
GORGEOUS SHOTS!

 

[spacefuzz]

The color seems really un-natural on the second.

Hmm un natural in what way exactly? I did up the brightness / saturation of the upper trees to try to compensate for the ND. Used a lightroom cloudy preset for the WB. Perhaps I should print it and see what it looks like on paper incase my monitor is wonky.