Love this picture! Doesn’t look overdone to me.
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May ask you why you crop/framed the tips of the propellers out the frame?
And second.
Dehaze, clarity, and blackpoint are basicly what you want to control.
Blackpoint is basicly the darkest point of a shadow in your image and this doesn’t have to be count zero aka black in a rawfile, often you don’t need full black shadow…
If you use the curve tone tool tou can use the lowest curve to clear up hazy, spots in a image.
Sort off “clearify” the image.
Clearview does this also but add also spots of microdots to enhance contrast of detail lines. Hence the microcontrast look if you over do it.
Microcontrast slider , wel this is not the same as blackpoint, but it adds lots of black micro dots all around which sharpens and darken the image.
Then the high mid and low constrast sliders , those i use mainly to keep detail in the locations i use the selective tone sliders for say highlightcontrol.
-40 highlight selective tone is the same as -20 highlight selective tone and -20 hightlight contrast. But much less bleeched out. And if a selective tone slider dulls a certain place counter with the same constrast one to get the detail back.
Finecontrast.: in the manual is this very good for skin. ( use a skin portret preset and look at the settings. Turn these off and on and you see the effect.
As the fine contrast is equal to the three advanged contrast sliders tide together you can predikt that fine contrast isn’t as “black” as blackpoint and microcontrast .
So resumé:
Do you want dehaze with some clarity and thus sharpening? Use clearview from 0-20/25 not more. Its smart enough to add more in the hazy parts then around. Foreground and such.
Use controlpoint/lines to control microcontrast placing by adding or subtracting in the carefull placed mask.
Use bricks to build , small steps in different tools and not bigsteps in one.
Dehaze but not sharpening?
Tonecurve tool.( you can even RGB controle.) But i rather use the selective color tool to controle the colorbehavior.
( add saturation is adding more darken pixels. ( sort fine contrast)
Clarify, enhance colors and feel of polaroid cpl filter? Use fine contrast and fine tune with the advanged contrast sliders. This deepens the color intenstity without the oversharping that microcontrast does.
Final : i use lens module’s auto microconrastsetting.
You will see that this changes in every image. Keep an eye on the saturation protection number wile you fool around with all the settings. ( if its not 0 then a color is out of gamut. And renderend back in to your colorprofile.)
To see and get a feel of all the sliders use a few images which are "in the need of " clarity/dehaze/blackpoint adjustment and turn all kind of sliders to the max effect plus and min. Make some virtual copy’s of those extreme settings and export with the name and setting of the slider you used.
Compare those in a viewer.
You will see the differences and start to see the choices you can make to use the strongpoints and weakpoints of each slider.