If anyone has raw footage with the whites blown out, I found a solution...

[Ripper7620]

In Premiere Pro, there is a Look setting called"SL BLUEDAY4NITE. It's very blue dominant(obviously), and not many will like the overall look, however, it turns blown out, blinding white skies into luscious, intense, and very vibrant blue skies with gorgeous, well defined clouds. The look is overall quite dark, and is far from a perfect solution, but FWIW, it's the best solution for raw footage with blown out whites I've found so far. Please, by all means, if you have better solutions, please feel free to list them.

 

[laurens23]

post some of your pictures (before and after)...

 

[4wd]

You can also make a grad in photoshop and apply it to the sky as an overlay.

 

[Ripper7620]

post some of your pictures (before and after)...

 

[Ripper7620]

post some of your pictures (before and after)...

 

[Ripper7620]

 

[Kilrah]

That's absolutely awful IMO...

But I don't even get how you can get a source image that bad. Something's very wrong somewhere.

 

[gnirtS]

That's absolutely awful IMO...

But I don't even get how you can get a source image that bad. Something's very wrong somewhere.

Agreed. Something is terribly wrong there. It's awful.

 

[dvarapala]

That's absolutely awful IMO...

But I don't even get how you can get a source image that bad. Something's very wrong somewhere.

That's what happens why you fly with manual settings and don't set them correctly. Ask me how I know.

 

[Ripper7620]

I agree the first two are horrendous, but I dig the third one. And I don't make material to please others, I make what I like.