Stepping Up My Landscape Processing

[snerd]

So, I'm tired of posting boring pics. I've been spending more and more time in Lightroom, discovering more and more tools to enhance my photos, without making them look "too" processed. I hope. What do you think of these?


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[pthrift]

To *me* the sky looks obviously processed in everyone of them. Overdone is not something I can quantify for you- that's your own judgement call- but the sky makes it glaring obvious these have had some touch up work done

 

[snerd]

Yes, I bumped up the blue channel a little in saturation. Then a tad orange. Finished in Color Efex Pro 4 and some detail extraction.

 

[thereyougo!]

It's the heavy Cyan look to the sky that says there's too much processing done, it doesn't look natural to me, I'm afraid. The foreground looks ok, but the sky looks like it's been added.

 

[snerd]

Thanks. I'll go back and back off on the sky.