R.G. wrote:
As expected, there's a fair amount of noise just waiting to come out when you brighten the shadows. Much will depend on your level of noise tolerance. Much depends on how closely you crop. You can select the sky and work on it in isolation to darken it a bit.
This was the best I could do with one of the easier ones. Raw files will give you more scope for pushing and pulling.
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I will continue to work on the RAWs with the advice gained here.