@MGTF:

Here's the result you wanted to see...

The original Raw file was only once processed in Camera Raw, nothing was done in Photoshop except resizing and saving.

I had to set both the Fill Light and the Recovery sliders at the maximum value of 100 to get this result. At first sight, it seems to have come through pretty well. What you see here is the resized version. To show you how it looks at 100%, without resizing, look below.

We do not see things as they are. ǝɹɐ ǝʍ sɐ sƃuıɥʇ ǝǝs ǝʍ