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like how the hat is featureless, but regarding her arms and body I agree that they are too blown out.
Indeed if I had taken the photo within the DR, I could have chosen afterwards what details to highlight and what to remove, now the above is what I'm stuck with.
If your luminosity exceeds 255 anywhere in your image middle highlights, highlights, whites, the sensor registers zip, nada, nothing. It only takes 4 1/3 stops of light to turn a black background pure white. Even if you've saved as a raw file (which you should be doing anyhow) there is nothing to recover once you go past pure white. One of my pet peeves is the lazy photographer who intentionally blows the highlights in a HK just to "make sure the whites are white". Yes you can do it, but doing so also blows away the wonderful microcontrast in the upper highlights. Learn to use a histogram to judge your exposure. Histograms for Beginners
A camera sensor only records reflected light in a given range. It doesn't manufacture light, that's the photographer's job, to supply or read it. If you have your lighting right, and your exposure correct, it only takes minor adjustments post to finish. Learning some basics now will allow you to produce exactly what you want later.