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Hi Tony,
Here's my effort after about 5mins with Photoshop. There is a heck of a lot of detail in that shot of yours!! Well done. I'm no expert with PS, but someone who is could probably squeeze a bit more out of it still.
Ok What did I do...
1. Crop the image a bit to frame it better and remove stacking overlaps
2. Boost the upper end of the curves, to make it look way too over exposed.
3. Using levels reset the black point, using the graphs for each RGB channel individually. This means moving the left slider right until it touches histogram.
4. Tweak the right slider in Levels to get the highlight the detail and balance. The image may still look a bit too over-exposed.
5. Back to curves for a slight tweak. You can get the curve graph looking a bit like a "S" shape at 45°. This boosts the highlights & darkens the background. Image should be looking pretty good now.
6. A little colour balance using colour balance. Boost the midtones a little and boost the shadows a little.
7. I usually finish off with a basic contrast and brightness adjustment and an unshape mask sharpen filter. But this one didn't need it.
Hope this makes sense! There are many other processing techniques but this is the method I use and it mormally does an ok job for most stuff.
Let me know if you want the full BMP of the this processed image, & I'll pop it on the website.
Cheers
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