So I was with this technique and then decided to try some other stuff with it. In photoshop if you go under the image menu there are a bunch of other options to alter the picture. Following steps I used are the following
1)image>curves (play around with the curves. It lightens and darkens the image as a whole)
2)image>Shadow/Highlights(Play around and see what you like)
3)image>Exposure(Again play around)

This image only took about 5 minutes.quickMap.png