Misty Dolomite Farmhouse (brighter)

Photography as a serious business for me, where my intent is to be an artist, has required me to seek out mentors. I have mentors in the photography world and in the painting world. Sometimes I find myself struggling, to figure out what I am trying to achieve with an edit. Fortunately, this has been like going to the gym. As I get stronger with my craft the ability to make changes, and understanding why I am making the changes, makes me overall, better. And this reduces my struggling. So the reason why I made changes here was the left wooden farmhouse structure was a black blob and overall folks who I respected commented the picture was too dark. Similar pictures of this scene that I found out there on varies sites are very bright. I didn't want that, but I felt the image could be brighter with more atmosphere particularly around the white farm house. So I went layer by layer seeing what layer did what to specific areas. I either added to or subtracted from a mask or deleted a layer completely. I really like this final...final result. I am leaving the other so it can be compared.

Done