I'm new to this whole world of photography and editing. I had looked forward to comparing working on the RAW vs the JPG but had problems downloading the RAW. I ended up with a thumbnail size. So I downloaded the JPG and did some editing in GIMP just for fun.
I selected some of the dark areas and bumped them up lighter in curves before bumping up the overall contrast a bit. Then I went through and burned in the details in the areas I was most interested in avoiding the already dark areas so that I didn't lose them back to black. I especially like the cracks in the dark area of the hood.
