Photoshop is the digital darkroom. Its just another tool to get your vision to the finished print. Think of it like Adams used to say in the old darkroom days exposing the processing the negative is like writing the musical score and printing it is performing the piece. Give it to two different conductors and you'll get two different interpretations. The ONLY way you can see your vision all the way through is to control all of these things like photoshop so the final image is what you intend it to be. Give three very good photographers that are also very good printers the same negative (or digital file) and you are probably going to get three very different finished images. Thats why its so important that you master not only the camera but whatever post production you use which I feel photoshop is the best.
Back to your images I like the first.
