[Play Raw] Watermelon

Just in case you don’t know how to do that, I would do the following:

1 - Uncheck Clip out-of-gamut colors box
2 - Check Highlight reconstruction box
3 - Move the Highlight compression slider to your taste.

I’m a Darktable user, but when it comes to highlights recovery, I get better results with Rawtherapee: after recovering in RT, I just export a 32-bit REC 2020 tif, then I do all the rest on DT.

You’ve got some pretty nasty artifacts on that region, but the overall edit that you did is pretty close to what the scene was, in terms of lighting and colors.

My edit was purposely dark to represent my vision of that scene: the watermelon and specially the light reflection beneath pop up in front of me.

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