I struggled a bit on this Hawai’ian scenery…
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I am sure you can all do better…
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I thought I’d push colors around a bit. Color calibration to balance and shift toward blue, rgb primaries to rotate and tighten up color harmony a little.
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Very nice on the sky, but these rocks are remnants of a lava flow and they were 100% black. This is why your edit feels a bit “unreal” to me, if I may say…
Ya just playing around…that would be an easy fix…
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Different WB (even though I prefer the warmer setting):
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A further variation with a different crop:
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Found it quite challanging, specifically the light and chromatic aberrations.
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Brightened, balanced, and then got rid of a distraction. 
edit: didn’t realize how noisy the sky was so cleaned it up some, too.
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Lovely Hawai’ian island gets down the drain… 
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There is a quite strange bump at the very right end of the horizon line… What happened there?
If you are referring to the microworld, I had to make the image horizontally tileable so that’s probably what happened.