I shot this last week, I was trying to take a panorama and had not gave much attention to overexposed areas. I tried to fix exploding part by making it look softer, as much as I could. Looking forward for your try.
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Because I was sitting here in a darkened room while working on that, I’ve got that spot that follows my eyes around wherever I look. MIght as well have been staring at the actual sun. 
Nice and soft ! 
My edit seemed more saturated to me this morning. Then I realized, I forgot to turn off blue light filter while editing. 
Highlights recovery pushed to the extreme in RT
IMG_9386.CR2.pp3 (13.6 KB)
and then gimp to recover some luminance in the highlights
