Dan, no offense, it's a terrific study, but I'm surprised you did that much processing. Just my, probably unpopular, opinion.
I love it!
Regards,
John
John, I am all over the place when it comes to PP. I enjoy my landscapes with as little post production as possible, I am guessing 4 out of 5 are virtually untouched. However, at the same time I am quite used to produce commercial images that require heavy PP for specific use and applications.
The key, in my book, is to be honest about how an image came about (if the question is asked)! I am in the camp where the end result is more important than how it was done! Having said that, I resisted longer than most jumping to digital and even when I did I shot my scenes as if it was film and did absolutely nothing in post.
I am over that! Now I embrace possibilities and feel fortunate to live in times where we have no limits to creativity. If we can think it, we can put it on paper.