Hi
At first I too was of the opinion to leave the image the way you posted it. Then when you posted the original one I thought, hmm, lets see what I can do.
I didn't do much, I only used a program called LightMachine to brighten bits and pieces here and there and OLONEO to do a light tone mapping.
The end result I thought wasn't too bad. What I like about it now is that the haystack looks a bit more detailed, You can now make out Jessie's eye and the field behind her has a bit more detail with a good light reflectance. What do you think.
Oh, and I turned the image a little bit to the right, but I could be wrong here.
Finally, It is a really super image and it is so satisfying that one can correct these type of difficult exposures in PP nowadays.
Greetings
Last edited by Schraubstock; 11-01-2014 at 04:22 PM.