Bryan and Ted's Excellent Imaging Lab...
Imaging Lab 1

Our Final Closeup:  What we did here was a histogram stretch on the intensity component of the HSV image.  We stretched the 0 to 0.5 values to 0 to 1.  This brought out the darker values and maxed out any that were above 0.5.

Our Final Dark:  Here we did a histogram equalization on the intensity component of the image.