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Having messed around with -- and not liked -- the "Active D-Lighting" in the Nikon D7100 shooting menu, I messed around with and very much do like the nondestructive "D-Lighting" in the retouch menu. Here's a straight OOC JPEG, entirely unremarkable.

Having shot RAW+JPG, I used the D7100's retouch menu D-Lighting, which brought out a lot that was hidden in the shadows in the default exposure. Yes, it flattens things a bit, but in this case that's not awful. This was with the Retouch D-lighting on its normal setting; there is a "Low" choice, which does less, and a "High" choice, which does more. It's useful when (and I can't believe I'm saying this) contrast gets out of hand. Interestingly, the process increases the size of the resulting JPEG by about a third.