cairnstone:
Nice edits I know what you mean about the sky It can happen a lot so I wrote a camera preset for my camera just to deal with the sky colors works great
I used the adobe dngprofileeditor what you do is convert one of your raw images to dng then do your edits using the dngprofileeditor and then save that out as one of your camera profiles in camera raw
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