>>3459956You have a sony so exposure in camera doesn't matter unless whites/blacks are clipping. Look up ISO invariance.
As for post processing, I like what you're going for but you can barely see any detail in the shadows and it looks like your highlights are clipping. You should flatten the left side of the exposure curve so the very end of it falls off gradually. This decreases contrast in the shadows, so if you adjust exposure until the lighter end of your shadows look the same as they do on your pic, the extreme shadows will actually be a bit brighter. So you can have pretty much the same dark shadows without losing all the detail due to clipping. Something like pic related could work. I'd do that first, and leave shadows, highlights and blacks alone in the exposure tab, bring whites up quite a bit, then decrease the exposure until there's no clipping and there's enough detail in both the shadows and the highlights.
