I'm going through some photos I took this summer on a trip to the Great Smokies. I appreciate C/C in regards to framing, cropping, and things I can do in post to make the image look better.
As for your shots, nice layers here. In #1, I think since you are already going with a pano look, I would crop more off the top of the sky, in fact I would suggest cropping about half the sky. That would give you the bottom third of the shot as the black lower layer, the middle area to the blue layer of hills and the top third or so to the orange hues in the sky. Just a thought for you.
With #2, it looks pretty nice as is, you might be able to trim a bit off the sky, but the biggest thing there is to clean up that large dust bunny towards the left side. Clone that guy out.
