The original photo was extremely dark. I'm inexperienced with post processing so hopefully this looks alright. I dislike going overboard with editing and especially saturation.
>>4260500Can't you just content aware fill in photoshop? It's great at doing adjustments like this where the background is soft and not detailed.
>>4260180Something about the sand land the colouring overall on the left half of the image looks odd. Like the sand is detailed too sharply and draws my attention away from the greenery