just available light Alpha. It was raining--the light was coming from the left (west) such as it was. Had to go back and find the original color shot. I had 2 and wanted to be sure this was the right one (it is). You can see the rain in this shot--early evening downpour. I shot at f2.5 1/25 ISO 50 handheld. (I think this is the order in which I worked and what I did). I made adjustments in histogram first, then converted to grey. I believe I then duplicated layers, cloned from the darker areas (burning didn't seem to help them) at probably 35% opacity into the light areas(I think). I fiddled with opacity in layers, merged. I then used adjustment layer/curves. Finally cropped, resized, used unsharp mask (I have camera set for low sharpening incamera). Diane