Topic: Correcting over exposed shots

There is no rules for doing contrast, but!

the contrast is the difference between top range light and low range light
when you doing something, you should always control the contrast, to prevent overexposure and underexposure in top and low ranges.
So if you have overexposure, dont stuck your brains, leave top rangs as it is and do your corrections in mids and lows, but dont forget to control tops.

for an example:
Normal contrast is 80-90% of tops and 8-10% of lows
Low contrast is 50-60% of tops and 13-16% of lows
High contrast is 95-100 of tops and 2-4% of lows

but if you have 102-110 overexposure for tops, then you have serious problem.
and there is camera quality level means so much!

5DMkII never forgives you overexposure and undereposure, just +-1 stop, but Arri D21 will feel you much better for 3-4 stops for tops and 3-4 stops for lows

Topic: Correcting over exposed shots

What kind of look do you want?

Sometimes if a client gives me over exposed images, I jump into Color FX room and create a node tree which gives me a glow effect. I add more or less glow depending on the shot and what’s making the glow.
Usually the client never notice it, but I think it adds “it” to the shot, and makes us forgive the fact that the shot is over exposed.

I’d appreciate a screenshot to see what you gotta deal with. :)