OK, I've put together another interesting one.
Picture a cloudy Fall day in the late afternoon. What low sun there is doesn't help the colorful Fall-colored trees in the foreground, but above, the sky, which is mixed clouds with patches of blue, is still quite light.
This is a typical "high contrast" outdoors scene which necessitates some real thought and juggling by the photog. And, shooting trees with any breeze rules out an HDR approach.
Since I, for many shots, prefer a RAW develop approach over the idea of doing a double processing approach in Photoshop (except for shots I plan on a final highest quality print/display output), I took several exposures, trying to "Expose To The Right", but without blowing out the clouds overmuch.
As you will see, my chosen exposure started life with the clouds too bright, the blue sky nearly invisible, and the trees too dark, all of which would have been the fate of a jpeg. But check out the Before and After, and you can see quite a nice transformation, maybe not magazine quality, but a cool Fall shot for my collection! BTW, since I only have LR 1.4 at the time, I'm sure that LR 2 with all the local edits would have made this come out even better!
BTW, for the actual shot, I'm posting the "original" with the Exif available.
Out of camera with Lightroom defaults:
After the "stuff":
In Lightroom I first tweaked in Basic and the Tone Curve section:
Then I tweaked some of the channels (Blue and Green) for Saturation:
Finally, I tweaked the Red And Green channels for Luminance, which all gave what was to me, a balanced blend of colors. You can also see my sharpening levels here -- no noise reduction, since it was shot at ISO 400 (hand-held):
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