I got better results with sigmoid this time…
Maybe bad settings in filmic, but i struggled to get something pleasant.
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Thank you, I had noticed…
It seems a very good result, but i’m watching from phone… 
I like sigmoid, but I decided to try with filmic first:
Sigmoid variant coming up…
Here we go!
I feel like a neutral swatch in the foreground (that you could crop out or just shoot a second frame in the same light) would’ve been really helpful. I feel like the light isn’t doing the yellow pepper any favors.
Slightly different tone eq…
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Well I decided to have a quick go at doing a simple edit to compare filmic and sigmoid on this image. With filmic I used auto tune levels and then increased the contrast. With sigmoid I just accepted the default values. I am not trying to rate one method against the other with such a simple processing.
It was in another frame 
the result being somehow warmer than your wb setting, but i agree the yellow pepper suffers from the bad lighting. The table too doesn’t help.
Nice experiment!
I can recommend looking into how to light glossy objects if you want to take it up another level. I like this dude’s method for example: Understanding Gradient Lighting for Glossy Objects - YouTube
I would guess that you need a larger diffuser judging by the small specular highlights on the peppers.
Nothing special,
I guess.
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As far as ETTR is concerned, the specular spots on the peppers (I want to say Paprika, that’s my language I guess? I wouldn’t call these peppers 
) are clipped.
Turn everything off except whitebalance, drag the exposure way down and you’ll see faint magenta spots.
Inpaint-opposed does fix it pretty much without fiddling, although I do still see some coloured edge / fringe where I think there shouldn’t be one. Messing around with the white level a small bit and segmentation-based recovery removed all magenta from the clipped highlights eventually.
A non-issue, as the spots are so small and by the time filmic / sigmoid / tone-equalizer is done over there, they’ll end up ‘white’ most likely anyway.
It does make it so that there is no ‘real’ colour information in those bright specular spots. I guess it’s not an issue, but I would’ve exposed it lower, I guess.
It was not an artistic shot, i know. After hours of measurements at vary iso, light conditions and so on, i pointed the camera to the table under the kitchen lamp 
set the exposure and shot.
Anyway thanks for advices and link.
According to rawdigger there were only a handful of pixels blown out in the specular highlights.
In real situations I wouldn’t worry about some blown out specular lights in favor of a better signal.
Obviously for this shot I should have adopted a different light setup, more diffused light with a softbox perhaps.
Anyway thanks.
P.S.
For the pepper/paprika sorry, but my english is very very limited…
I call them capsicums… 
My vocabulary growns…
Like I said, it is probably not an issue.
But this is the data you captured, there you see how the sensor is clipped:
Just enabling highlight-reconstruction with inpaint-opposed:
Fixes it right up, except for small magenta circles where the unclipped data stops and the clipped data begins. To fix those fringes I had to use segmentation-based.
But as I said, these small details will probably be fixed by just tone-mapping as well. Small spots like this don’t have to be a problem :).
