The Lightroom Graduated Filter tool can be used to add a secondary light source to an image where one was not in existence when you shot it. This often works better to rescue an unexposed area of an image than, for example, applying a Shadow/Highlight fix in Photoshop.
1. This image is extremely dark on the right – a problem caused by capturing the carousel horse in broad daylight on a very sunny day..
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