Is there a method of

[BananaRepublic]

Is there a method of fixing the person on the stage LHS she's glowing hotter then the Suns corona, just wonder is there a fix for this bar cropping. At the time I should have taken different exposures but Doc Brown says he cant find the car keys.

 

[KmH]

She's not blown out completely - 235, 240, 235 - but it's going to be immensely difficult to recover sufficient detail to not look grossly, and hideously, edited.

A photograph that could only be made by using flash to balance the extreme dynamic range.

 

[480sparky]

Do you have another similar image where she is properly exposed so you could make a composite?

 

[Derrel]

I tend to agree with Keith where he says that this will look grossly and hideously edited, but maybe you can slap on some type of overlay or Lightroom preset that looks "acceptable". Maybe it would be possible to process two images from a raw one for her and the other for the balance of the scene and then merge the two. My only other thought is that perhaps Adobe's fairly new dehaze function might help recover some of the overexposure on her and also make the light effects look a little bit better. Otherwise this shot is going to be very difficult to work with. If you don't have a lot of experience in salvaging this type of shot, you might look online for some of the affordable retouchers like Anna Gray for example.For ten bucks you might be able to have the shot resuscitated better than you could ever hope to do. If this was not shot in raw in-camera, I think you are hosed.