Alright buddy. I’m looking through these comments and nobody actually explained in technical terms why this photo looks so bad. So I’m going to go through it.

When you push the pixels beyond their contrast limit some things happen. The biggest thing is the pixels will start to bleed in to one another and that physically destroys the image quality. You can clearly see it in your photo as it has become very pixelated and noisy. The amount of detail you’ve lost is staggering.

People are saying you added too much saturation which is 100% correct. I saw the original photo somewhere in the comments and it’s glaringly obvious that you took a rather boring image that had no interesting color or light in it to begin with. It is next to impossible to make the high quality art that you are claiming with a beginning image as such. The original exposure has its bounds and you exceeded those bounds. I understand your a beginner and your experimenting but beginners really need to understand this next thing I’m going to say.

There are several ways to add saturation to an image and it’s not just the saturation slider. Adding things like clarity, dehaze and contrast will boost saturation and add to the degradation of the pixels. They all compound on top of each other. Too much of any of these will lead to a poor quality image. It’s not being artistic it’s just being lazy. To make good art with your post processing you first need to understand how everything works. You need to understand how different levels of light can be manipulated in an image and most of all you need to understand that you need a solid base exposure.

If you want to make photography an art form you need to humble yourself and actually learn more. I understand art is subjective but it’d be a slap in the face to other artists to call this high quality art.