Alright, here's the biggie :-) Nik HDR Efex Pro. I had always planned to use this software on this shot, and everything up until now has been paving the way for this. This is where I am able to balance the tonalities and bring the image into "daylight mode". Note that the increased saturation came naturally when the local area contrast was amped up; I actually had to dial DOWN the saturation in the software to compensate for too much gaudy color in the initial tone mapping.
This is, incidentally, one of the biggest pitfalls for those new to HDR and tone mapping; the tendency towards gaudy, cartoon-like colors.
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