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Unless you wanted to create a dark fairytale kind of look -- Mordor from "Lord of the Rings" comes to mind -- you might have gone too heavy on the micro-contrast adjustment.

Bjorn,  

This looks like a wonderful park for photography.  The rock formations are quite dramatic  Is there a way that you can achieve more tonal or zone values here - more different shades of gray ranging from white to black?  I find that the sliders in the saturation panel (check black and white conversion) in Camera Raw work quite well for adding tonal range.  Nicely composed.

Larry

Bjorn,  

Here's an edited version just for the fun of it.  It's not meant to be better than yours - just different for your judgment and comparison.  I hope you find this interesting and helpful.

@ Larry: do you mean the 'HSL / Grayscale' panel with the "Convert to Grayscale" checkbox ticked?

See Larry your version seems way to dark and contrasted i edit all my images to a Dell 24inch IPS Ultra sharp monitor which is calibrated to 6500k 2.2 gama at 90cd/m2 for good print output. I appreciate your rendition of my shot but would look way to contrasted and dark for my liking. For me i pp my work souly for print nothing else and so it will look different from screen to screen if the person hasnt calibrated to a certain spec.