Ok, so the past 2 months I've been trying hard to get the most visually pleasing Skyrim for my taste, but failed and failed again. I've tried various enb and weather overhauls and fxaa and imaginator settings, and I'm on the border of frustration. My favorite ENB so far has some weird shadow artifacts. Others are too plain, too yellow in interiors, too pretty, too blurry (yes, I know how to disable DoF) or have too black shadows - meaning it's hard to see people's faces = bad for screenshots. It seems I'll have to create something myself. So those of you who have some experience in this kind of things, can you give me some advice/input? I know what some of the settings do, but far from all of it.

I'll probably keep the rcrn plugins, but I have removed the shaders.

What I'm trying to achieve is basically this:

Atmospheric lighting and shadows - not too pretty.
Good for screenshots. (Rather sharp faces and textures, not too black shadows).
Not yellow interiors.
Not blue nights.

I'm on the same boat mate. About 1 month myself in the same broken quest I ended up uninstalling everything and started tweaking vanilla. I'm using the original 0.126 enb files from somewhat scratch (using values from here and there for the ini and then tweaking further). It doesn't look anywhere as pretty as most ENBs out there, but I'm learning. My recommendation, if you can run an ENB it will allow you to run a minimal amount of lighting mods, since you can customize quite a lot in the .ini (and now in-game with the GUI).

But I'm also curious about what other people recommends.