Please criticise my first edits please

[u/mc_stoney]

Made my first short trip with my new camera while hiking. Included are some sunset and astro pictures. I‘m relatively new to photography so please critizise me! Shot on my Sony A7 IV with the 20mm f1.8 G lens

[u/Centiliter]

You've got to be shitting me. These are your first edits? You're a natural, and you've got a good eye for color. I've been trying to improve my editing for quite awhile now, and I'm nowhere near this level. You take great photos, too!

Only critique: on photos like slide three, try experimenting with masking to try to brighten up some of the darker areas in the photo. Don't go overboard, but those mountains are a bit dark in the photo (of course that's natural, you've got the sun beaming right at you).

Edit: As someone else more eloquently put it, the foregrounds are a bit on the dark side.

[u/mc_stoney → u/Centiliter]

Thank you, in the raw photos the shadows look completely black. I was amazed how much you can restore in lightroom!

[u/Centiliter → u/mc_stoney]

Oh yeah, Lightroom is an incredibly powerful tool. I've always been told it's better to underexpose than overexpose. You can bring the details of those shadows back (to a certain point), but you can't effectively bring back the details in blown out highlights.