- Made four virtual copies in Lightroom at varying exposures.
- Tonemapped those 4 with the original in Photomatix.
- Took the resulting .TIFF into Photoshop, masked it, and selectively took out areas of the HDR to bring back some realism.
- Dodged / Burned detail into some of the grass, clouds, and trees. Gaussian Blur.
- 9 different Hue / Saturation adjustments.
- 2 Selective Color adjustments for the Reds / Yellows.
- Bumped midtone contrast with Curves in LAB.
- Back in RGB, lowered the Green channel in Curves to change the time of day a bit.
- Burned a slight vignette and then Gaussian Blur to clean up the lines.
- Shadow/Highlight command to bump the midtone contrast again.
- One last Curves adjustment to bring it all together.
- Sharpened slightly in LAB.
- Ran a custom "Finish for Web" action that converted to sRGB and bumped the saturation by +5.
Ya know...real quick like.
