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When the Sky Blows Out: A Practical Guide to Recovering Highlights in Lightroom
There’s a particular kind of heartbreak that happens when you come home from a shoot, pull up your RAW files, and realize the best frame of the day has a chunk of pure white where the sky used to be. No detail. No texture. Just a blank spot where your highlights burned straight through the sensor’s ceiling. I’ve been there more times than I want to admit, and for a long time my instinct was the same as everyone else’s: drag it to the trash and hope lightning strikes twice.