Crop, levels, curves, s/h, resize, sharpen.
This shot was one of my candidates for the april free study. This is different crop and processing from my original and I like this better.
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nice image. i bet this looks better, the larger it gets. i'm a bit surprised you didn't go for the over used cinematic border...in your case, i think it might have provided a nice balance to the black of the foreground.-9