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aoie_emesai, you really killed the shadow detail on that filtered image. It looks a lot worse. You should stay away from the brightness and contrast controls in Photoshop because they will almost always really mess up your image. Deal with levels and curves instead.

Below are a couple versions of that first image which I did a quick filtering job on:

Sticking as close to the original brightness as possible (to maintain a bit of the washed out from strong sunlight look) with better contrast and denoised:
http://cyberbeing.extra.hu/test1.png

A little darker than the original (removing the washed out look) with better contrast and denoised:
http://cyberbeing.extra.hu/test2.png