Managing tone

For this exercise I chose an image taken with my Powershot SX40HS and in Lightroom performed a number of actions. These included assessing and adjusting if necessary the mid-tones, contrast and if necessary making corrections to localised areas.  






P560 : f2.8 @ 1/1000  ISO 160  4.3mm AWB  Original image

P560a : Adjusted using tone curve and localised correction on sky