Would greatly appreciate some crits on a scene (lighting, pp and mats)

Development Rendering
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I’m trying to understand lighting and materials a bit better and would love some tips or crits on the biggest problems with the following scene.

I’m at a point where I feel like any change I do makes things worse and I’m still far from happy with the look of things.

Screenshot 1

Screenshot 2 with lower, grain and dof etc

I’d love to get a bit more realistic colors. I’m using post processing volume and a directional light for the sun with the default UE sky system.

Here are my post processing settings

I’ve got the directional sun light set to 7-9 in intensity and the skylight to 0.3 - 0.5.

I hope this isn’t the wrong sub forum for the post, I thought it would be most fitting as I’m having trouble withlighting, post processing and materials.

Thanks.

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It looks fine to me. The lighting does.
If you added in some baobab trees, and dead brush undergrowth the scene would have a bit more life, and some different grass stalks like wild wheat. A bonus would be a dynamic sky.