May I ask... you're altering the colors on your shots, right? No way St. John's is naturally THAT colorful. I mean, it is, compared to all other cities out there, at least on this continent... but in your pics, there's something artificial about it. Just asking out of curiosity
Yes, but I'm still learning how to do it correctly and often get stuck with the picture being too green or yellow as opposed to way the originals look: too dark and too blue.
Here's my editing process.
I start with this (opening a CR2 file from my camera in SageLight, which is a welfare version of Photoshop that I use for processing):
To give you an idea what SageLight does to start, here is opening the same CR2 file in Windows Photo Gallery and saving it as a JPG:
And if I edited it using that program, I would decrease the brightness, increase the contrast, greatly increase the temperature, and increase the saturation to get this:
For what it's worth, the latter is very close to what you'd actually see. It's certainly not blue like the original.
Then I try to fix the colour cast. I usually do this by brightening it a little and reducing the blue tint of the shadows. I don't usually alter the saturation but I imagine the end result is basically the same as doing so? I'm more concerned about the tint than the strength of the colour.
Then I crop out all the blurry/ugly parts of the city, tweak the brightness, reduce the noise, etc., and I end up with this:
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