Extreme Image Recovery (1 Viewer)

[MikeInPA]

In trying to find a Yellow Warbler image for the ABC Birds Quiz I went through my archive and came across this shot from May 2017. Totally overexposed right? I really screwed up the exposure. Or maybe not.

 

[MikeInPA]

Just for a giggle I though I'd see if I could recover it. A simple 10 second fix produced this. So the moral of the story is "don't throw anything away!". Disk space is cheap these days.

 

[MikeInPA]

With a crop.

 

[seaspirit]

Expose to the right.
Great job and a good example what can be done, with raw files even more so than jpg.
Overexposed is easier to recover than underexposed, as brightening things up will come with a lot of noise
In the unedited image there appear no real blown out sections, at least not in and around the subject.

 

[MikeInPA]

Yep. ETTR is a bit extreme in this case

I also use Topaz DeNoise AI and find that it does a great job on lifted shadows or very high ISO shots where noise is problem.