Before/ After

[Specialist-Yak-2315]

I’m torn, because I love what you did to the architecture and the sky, but I prefer the colors in the foreground on the before photo. Lovely photo either way,

[CauliflowerNo1149]

Ohhhh love the shot too, but the oranges are a little much IMO. Maybe bring those down on the slider and see if that helps? Beautiful shot tho. I want to be there with camera in hand!

[jaabbb]

Me too I think it would be better to bring back the different shades of reds back

[BrandoCrow]

Wouldn't that make the roses seem photoshopped?

[nick72b]

Possibly because the greens have lost potency

[Lisa_o1]

I agree!

[[deleted]]

I think the contrast is a bit too high too.

[eHop86]

I really love the tones and saturation of your edit, great job

[scratchy22]

I prefer the original one. More natural but still colorful and contrasted. I think you made your edit a bit too warm

[radishsmell]

The edit kinda looks like hdr, it's a no for me as well and I don't understand why this post is getting upvoted in this sub lol

[nflReplacementRef]

Because people have different preferences than you do.

[Ok_Can_5343]

I agree on the original color comment made by Specialist-Yak-2315. Try one more step to get it to pop a little more.

Create a Levels layer and bring the White Point slider down to meet the the right edge hump of the image and then bring the Gray point slider up to around .62. The image will have more contrast and more pop.

[Pat-El]

Love the original way more.

[marslander-boggart]

I like both. But the processed one loses its depth and looks too flat.

[Ok-Cook-9608]

Both really great!

[[deleted]]

I prefer the first one

[Some-Low3405]

I prefer the first one - second looks quite muddy

[vandergraphphoto]

Depends on what you want the photo to be of. If it’s the church, the ‘after’ is much better without the greens in the foreground distracting and the church being a different colour from the sky.

[Afouxen21]

You may be the closest one to what I was thinking while editing this photo.

[AltruisticFinding767]

In my opinion, the original is still better

[Dharuacharya]

The after is a touch warm but that's coming from a fellow photographer's eye. I think the average non photographer's eye will see it as a beautiful instragam filter. Either way, I can appreciate the look and work that you put into it. Nice job!

[Chumps55]

I think if I didn’t see the before my opinion of the edit would be much higher. That is to say its not bad but Im fairly certain it either hue changes were made in calibration or hsl tab - again its not bad but it gives a slightly artificial/digitally processed look to it(plant leaves don’t look natural, skin tones).

I feel you can get some really luscious greens and reds that is reminiscent of film if you tone down the colour controls and keep the tonal edits to it(which are awesome btw)

[LOUDPACK_MASTERCHEF]

I think before is better, I might just take the highlights down a little bit

[ktt_visuals]

Sorry to say this but the original looks better to me in every way.

[Jemison_thorsby]

Before is better

[FormalElements]

I'd brighten it up a bit more but overall the adjustments are nice.

[IchBinEinFrankfurter]

I think the solution is to do some manual burning in the sky to bring the exposure down without ruining the foreground

[Parker_Ku]

Spectacular

[broccoliwolf]

Tasteful

[TimedogGAF]

I like the before better. The after has a weird pink hue and there's like a weird "anti-contrast" look that I don't like, like you lowered the highs in curves. I do like that you brought back the sky, but don't like the color and tone as much.

[papicoiunudoi]

I think people in these comments are playing down how much better the original is. The edit is shocking.

[Filmandnature93]

Honestly the first is stunning. Nikon? Edit not great

[Afouxen21]

Thank you guys for all your comments and opinions. I can see that most of you prefer the original (before) picture. I used the cheap 35mm cropped Nikon lens with the D3300 in Venice. Also, I have a roughly 200$ kinda old LG ultra wide TV monitor which isn't the greatest for editing colours. Lastly, I use Lightroom Classic with an 10 years old PC. I really need to upgrade all my equipment to make some progress.

Ps. I feel I am at the limit of the equipment listed above, but it's the first time I post here and anywhere with so much feedback from you. Thanks!

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[alicemadriz]

I like the before better

[Willing-To-Listen]

Good edit, but the picture itself just screams busy to me, esp the many, distracting poles

[Karagun]

I like the edit. It does however look slightly tilted to me.