"Overexposed" is just as correct a term for digital as it is for film. The only difference is that the imaging chip is exposed past its dynamic range, rather than film being exposed to the limit of its exposure latitude.
In any case, if the chip is saturated, there's no getting the detail back.
I tried a histogram adjustment on the picture, and with a gamma correction of 0.6 and moderate midtone expansion I managed to get some detail back. I assume there's a lot more data in the full-sized images, so they might be tolerable. The problem is that they probably won't do that sort of adjustment unless the whole batch is like that and they can adjust them all at once with the same settings.
On the other hand, maybe these are scans of prints of digital images. In that case, the digital pictures could be just fine as-is.
The poses still aren't all that good though. But he's a cute little guy anyway.
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In any case, if the chip is saturated, there's no getting the detail back.
I tried a histogram adjustment on the picture, and with a gamma correction of 0.6 and moderate midtone expansion I managed to get some detail back. I assume there's a lot more data in the full-sized images, so they might be tolerable. The problem is that they probably won't do that sort of adjustment unless the whole batch is like that and they can adjust them all at once with the same settings.
On the other hand, maybe these are scans of prints of digital images. In that case, the digital pictures could be just fine as-is.
The poses still aren't all that good though. But he's a cute little guy anyway.