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Nice go at it Paul. Smoothing has been a bit vicious in Noiseware, and you've lost a lot of detail because of it. It's a fine balance between an acceptable amount of noise (while maintaining detail) and noiseless but featureless midtones.
I found that to bring out the Trap, I took a lot more short exposures (10 secs or so) and less long exposures. Try HDR to merge them too - it helps to tame the blowout by using the appropriately-exposed Traps from the shorter exposures rather than the massive highlight from the longer ones.
Great effort though!
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