2 night views of an Adirondack lake

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After a great 1-day work shop with Mark Bowie (www.markbowie.com) on night photography, I started to experiment. The two below were taken from the same location on different nights, one cloudy and one clear. The first was taken around 9:30 PM with a 2-minute exposure @ f/4.5. The second was taken an hour later on a different day with a 10-minute exposure @ f/3.5, but it should have been 20 minutes. (The image was somewhat underexposed and therefore noisy). The colors are quite close to the raw image with the Adobe Standard rendering. PP was modest. You tend to get these very intense colors with night-time long exposures. The streaks are of course star trails.

I am new to this type of photography, so C&C are particularly welcome.