Being an experienced Producer and an Art Director in PS I use a op trick.
Pull the slider up high and pull down until it is sounds what is needed only.
In PS Is go into on basic PR photos I used adjustments B&W and saturation
pulling sliders up and backing off until it appears their as an enhancement.
Sharpness nudge is really good but I do see too much sharpening today.
Less is more is really true.

PS a while back I posted this topic: Photography / video film making have become totally dominated by post processing.
Boy did I get a lot of grief over asking a perfectly logical question.
A gentlemen recently said here "I dont like garish PS on photos".

I do like both views but would first say that I can't judge well on a digital screen--my eye responds to a real print, which of course is a horse of a different color. Exposure is hard to evaluate on a screen (for me) because it is so reliant on the equipment and settings there, and in any case the resolution of a good monitor is limited.

The second has bolder elements because they are bigger in the frame, especially the waterfall of course. In the first, I feel the top is cropped too thin (some more sky gives natural proportion), but the same top in the second is a better balance. I would aim the second slightly to the right (as in the first take) so the water is not dead center. (Don't know why, I just would.)

The basic view is interesting in its complexity--all the parts are interesting without being busy or choking the main elements, and I like the small aperture focus of everything. The first thing I see after the waterfall is the close and far rock faces, as I scan the frame for all the elements--the little tree is nice. The flow of water is shown but not exaggerated to an artificial extent. On a paper print, especially in black and white, I want to see some real blacks, rich and deep, but in color, and on a screen, not so much--I like the lighter rendering of the rock faces at the top of the second picture, as their details add to the sense of sharpness. In color I am more comfortable if almost everything falls between zone 3 and zone 8, as the extremes fall outside reality, and you stretch this but not much.

It might be worth shooting this in a square format to start and keeping it there. Or try a wider angle vertical. Everything we can do in the camera has a different result than if we do it later. If you also shoot film, this is a great candidate for black and white, exposing for the shadows and developing for the highlights to cover the whole scale. (I am not fond of digital black and white--again, don't know why. Maybe it is the limitations of the video screen.)