Edit help needed

[.Cipher]

I need to find a way to bring out these colors more, without blowing out the highlights even more. Anyone have any idears?

 

[Bryant]

Working on it now. I won't be able to get rid of the lens flare though. I'd suggest getting a hood or turning the other way.

 

[Bryant]

Here it is. It isn't the greatest quality because you didn't post up the full quality, but this is what i was able to do.

 

[AussieDee]

I'm not really seeing all that much of a difference, perhaps if you put the before and after shots side by side. having a hard time scrolling up and down. I can barely make out what's different.

 

[Doug]

I tried doing one in HDR but didn't do anything with the flare

 

[manaheim]

You may be able to just tune up the saturation, but part of the problem is you have areas in extreme dark and areas in extreme light. Likely you're losing a lot of color information in both places.

Taking a picture like this in RAW might give you a bit more options to work with... also taking several exposures at different shutter times and making an HDR image (which is basically a composite to deal with extreme lighting situations) might also give you some interesting results. (you can also do this manually, btw... but photoshop and a few other apps do it "automatically")

This is a traditionally difficult shot to expose properly so don't let it bother you.