Highlight recovery teaser

[Iain]

Had some fun with trying my highlight synthesis with images from other threads.

Top; RT. Bottom; Mine.

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[Play Raw] Processing another very high dynamic range raw

This is frustrating for me. I downloaded RAF and sample XMP files. And those are OK. But when I try to mimic flow done on film I can’t get close to what I see. I’m out on first exposure where my sample is much darker (Even when I set +3.0EV) and having sky much lighter. [YT] So I gave up and tried to process with masks one of my photos I did some time ago in LR. And here is a the problem. No matter what I try I can’t recover highlights any way close to what I achieved in LR. Getting out shado…