Overblow Images Salvageable?

[k8brit]

I did a grad photoshoot yesterday. I made the horrible mistake of neglecting to check all my images as I was shooting. I checked some (all of which looked fine) but of course the ones I didn't check were horribly blown out as I didn't realize I had my flash on the whole time. Completely my fault and I feel terrible, but I just want to know if there is any hope that these are salvageable at all? I am not well versed in Photoshop yet.

[Christina Keddie]

Yikes.   Did you shoot these in raw?

[k8brit]

Yes, I did shoot raw.

 

[Damien Symonds]

And did you lower the exposure before posting these for us?  Is there any more detail to be found?

[k8brit]

The attached files are SOOC. I did try playing around with them myself, including exposure and highlights, but anything I tried looked very fake with high contrast. I am afraid they may be too far gone.

[Damien Symonds]

I'm afraid of that too, but can you send me the raw files?

[Damien Symonds]

I think you could make a passable (though not spectacular) black-and-white out of the second one.

The first one is just too far gone, I'm afraid.

[k8brit]

Thanks for taking a look... I'll see what I can make work in B&W.