@kali66 challenged me to use my HDR on my camera showing the contrast and shadows. I'm still not sure I've done it correctly but by the end of the week I should have. I decided to show this with no post production.
HDR evens out the highlights and shadows actually , so you get same level of detail in both. You can make them using AEB and putting the images through photoshop or other app to combine them, too. but modern cameras are clever !