I'm no Artisté (and Mr. Peterson is definitely right that blown out is blown out), but here's what I got with a few minutes of fooling around. Probably a tad too much and we're getting into the Realm of the Fake Tan, but at least you can see what's going on:
Broadly, I used Secondary Color Correction (3x) to hit various skin tones (one for the blown out areas, one for "normal" skin tones and then another to pick up some missed pixels). Fortunately, the overexposed areas are all skin (except a couple of flowers) and there aren't any fluffy clouds or anything else pure white that'll look odd with skin tones, so this could have been worse! I did often get a bit of the wooden rail at the same time, but it looks fine with a little "skin" color correction, too.
- Pulled the gamma down
- pushed the color up a bit (maybe 10-15%) in the skin tone range (towards 11 o'clock on the color wheel, halfway between yellow and red, more or less - toggle your Vectorscope on and it's obvious)
- pulled the gamma down on the whole image a tad (not more than 85-80%) using the regular three way color corrector.
That's all, just a technical start really. May or may not work in full motion.
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