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Thanks, @bennett-family. The forum must be resizing them, because they’re still limited to 2000px… You can upload the originals to this link if you’d like: https://www.dropbox.com/request/JrTFjj1ljDvS9qL54WnX I’ll delete them after analyzing them. 🙂
I popped one of these into RawTherapee to see what the exposure situation was. Here’s what the histogram looks like:
As you can see, the blacks are clipped in 2 channels (blue and green), and the highlights are nowhere close to being clipped. You probably could have exposed for a whole stop brighter before the highlights started blowing. If you want some more explanation about reading RawTherapee’s histogram panel, you can check out my RT tutorial here: https://youtu.be/bDXVpoXDtj0?t=245
That’s why I recommend enabling the histogram on your camera during image preview so that you can check stuff like this as you shoot!
As @jamesstaddon mentioned, a flash would have been awesome right here for filling in the faces. You’d definitely want a good diffuser though.. 🙂