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I think this cannot be fixed.
No problem.
There doesn’t seem to be any useful information in most of the overexposed areas. Personally, I see little hope with normal methods.
That’s true. But there is at least some information which can be recovered to make it a tiny bit better
Thanks for that the two exposures in the history - where are they stored?
I didn’t expect a miracle but what you did, did help.
Have a look at the left red rectangle in my screenshot, which frames the RT processing steps to recover some information
Thanks I can’t find those steps in RT. I can find white point but not those two in the options I did look under them all. Sorry to be a bit slow.
It’s them.
Enabling HL-Reconstruct and changing the method (top of Exposure).
Thank you I found it at last.
Hello, this is what I get in Art using Tone Equalizer, Tone Curve and Log Tone Mapping. I’m afraid this is all, or nearly, you can recover.
Thanks for that Paul could I have the processsing parameters so I can do that on my PC and add the label etc.
Thank you very good.
As far as blow outs it could be worse, but yes the data is just gone in those hottest areas. I thought it cleaned up well enough in darktable though. If it was a photo of my child that I liked well enough it is very printable and plenty good for media sharing. I haven’t done any edits recently so felt a little rusty at 1st, but it was good to open up dt again. I had something I liked in a few minutes of experimenting, but I got carried away after 30 minutes.
Top photo in this screenshot here of dt is where I started from after import using dt’s scene-referred workflow:
Looks like a light snow had fallen and I’m making the guess the sky that day was probably grey, and the light possibly flat and even at least before the sun came out. I didn’t do much to the color of things like the field behind them since it would be just a guess on my part, but did use what I thought were the darker parts of the image (socks/shorts) to set the black point.
I thought it looked OK in B/W as well.
If anyone is curious I used a DT git build I compiled myself from this pkgbuild that includes cr3 support on the AUR: AUR (en) - darktable-cr3-git
Thanks I am very impressed and by you compiling DT yourself.