Needs help with highlights

One more attempt. History should be in the files, but it uses a ‘Fuji Provia’ 3D LUT ('Fuji XTrans III from Fuji Film Simulation Profiles – Stuart Sowerby), so you won’t be able to use it directly. The only ‘trick’ was to use filmic with a ‘straight’ (that is, pure logarithmic) curve (a straight line when plotted with logarithmic x axis):

  • look
    • contrast =1
    • latitude=99% (to avoid desaturation; 100% sometime causes black artefacts in the brightest areas)
    • middle tones saturation = 0,
  • display/target black luminance = 0,
  • options
    • contrast in highlights = soft
    • contrast in shadows = soft,

and apply 3D LUT after that (Ctrl+drag to change pipeline order). Also, I applied the LUT in Adobe RGB (even though it’s a PNG LUT that is normally applied in sRGB), simply because it ‘looked better’ to my eyes.
Crop with the overexposed skin and problematic red sweater:

Uncropped image:

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