I mainly focused on making the leaves dark and the sky bright with photoshop. I cut the background out and edit it on its own, while editing the foreground and subjects by themselves, and merge it back into one picture.
For this series, I focused a lot on high and low exposures, before and after editing. This draft was made when I didn't have a clear idea of what I was doing, and I changed it in the middle of the week, hence the three photos.