In this case I started with brush as pic would be useless cables could be got rid of. Thereafter all quick-fix, but exp com -.67 then shadow prot 20% and a tweak of the curve; I usually start by getting the sky right and near zero highlight using double threshold, then look at rest of image - if it had been a more problematic one, I would have gone to LCH rather than tweak curve in quickfix.

New(er S/H) box came this morning so expect more who knows what further improvements. Was dreading OS10.5, but it is the first OS since 10.2 where the interface has actually improved, whereas 10.4 was a trough of despond. Speed will allow me to set NX2 so the adjustments stay active when one backtracks.