Now considering the poor shape this photo started out as, I thought I would share a breakdown on how I salvaged it. Here is an animated gif of the whole process:
But where most of the work was done is in the RAW conversion.
As you can see it is quite obvious what I rejected this image in the first place.
Here are some of the settings I used to rescue this image.
Well I hope you enjoyed this little breakdown.
ShootingDave.