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Something that I find difficult is setting up an image for the background colour. I have my browser set to dark mode whereas others may have theirs light. A picture that seems just right for a black background can look wrong against white and vice versa.
There is plenty of colour in the sky on both pictures, the one of the church is borderline over saturated and the shadows need lifting - in my opinion of course, Others may vary in their assessments.
Have you tried the Let’s Edit It thread yet? People have the opportunity to edit a picture supplied by one of the participants and describe their choices. Anyone can join in.
Although it is in the Challenges category it isn’t really a competition, it’s far more a co-operative effort to share ideas, constructive criticism and techniques. Once the provider of the phot decides that interest has been filled in the editing of their picture they nominate the person that they think has done the best job to supply the next image for the group to work on.
Give it a go!
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Always remember, too, that grading is very subjective … and, a monitor that’s not calibrated can introduce a shift that only others see, since you grade to what you see on that monitor.
Over-saturated and a bit dark to my taste. I edit in Lightroom Classic, and have a second monitor set up to preview on white while editing to keep a balanced result. You obviously need to have reasonable calibrated monitors to start with.
For me, and it’s just my opinion, the skies are ‘over blue’ and both pictures look a little dark. I’d try a little less saturation on the cyan slider, and adjust the shadow slider to lighten the foreground interest (I’m a Lightroom classic novice). As said above, how your screen is set can make a big difference.
That said, in my mind photographs are just another form of art and what some people like others don’t and vice versa. A photograph is a ‘frozen in time’ moment, and often (depending on camera set up), images look slightly different on transfer to a pc/tablet, and trying to remember exactly how the scene looked at the time of pressing the button is hard. At the end of the day, it’s your photo, and it’s you that has to be happy with the end result
If you like blue - fine.
P.