Hi Steve,
I am a bit late to this crit, but you have the makings of a wonderful image. I like the POV and the detail and Steve's repost shows what can be done. I had a problem with my work flow last year until a friendly person on another forum helped me with my images. My problem was the sharpening in the RAW image and the control thereof in ACR. I now don't sharpen in ACR at all and my high resolution master tiff has no sharpening applied until I decide on the specific output, whether it be for a BPN post or a print for a RPS meeting. I use USM for most of my sharpening following a round of noise reduction and on occasions will use NIK sharpening for specific areas of an image that may require a wee bit more of sharpening. As Charles has mentioned, the use of surface masks for noise reduction and edge masks for sharpening are worth further investigation and in some cases are of value using USM as the sharpening filter in CS5.
Thanks for sharing and should you want to ask more feel free, best wishes,
Mark.
