messing about from messing

I used levels and the r/h side ended up too dark so I used the history brush to bring it back down a bit. Then I used shadow/highlight and then the left hand side was still too light in comparison so I just burnt it with the burn tool.

messing about

this isn't a great picture to begin with, but I wanted to do soemthing
with it and was disgruntled with the skylight. (I didn't like the
reflected blue white on the leaves). I should have shot it over with
a skylight filter or a uv filter or a polarizing filter. Instead, I
just dorked around with it on photoshop. I think I'd better start
over. The first is the original. LOL!