RustyBug Offline Upload & Sell: On
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No worries, I can recant most of it.
Of the two, My pref was for #1. My .02 on your revision to #2 was to reduce the amount of competition that the foreground housing was providing against your skyline. #1 seems to have a significant amount of blue cast (understood at time of day light source). While you chose to reduce the tonal value of the foreground in #2 to help mitigate that competition, I chose to adjust the WB (masked to lower half) render the neighborhood a bit closer to neutral.
The cool foreground vs. the warm sky represents complementary hue contrasts. As we are prone to detect contrast (of varying form), this puts these two sections in competition for our attention. So, if you want more attention to the warm areas, by adjusting the cool areas toward neutral, then the contrast of warm vs. cool is reduced, and then we aren't pulled quite as hard to the cool areas (now closer to neutral).
Whereas you choose to reduce the attention to the cool areas by adjusting their luminance, I just went a different route via hue ... more than one way to skin a cat.
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