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polarizer probably would've helped a lot with this one.
try bringing down the exposure in the raw file and layering it over top, removing everything but the sky and blending it in.

unless it's purposefully blown out.

At processing I have added luminescences of the sky so that light flew from above. That the model had a space for rise. If the sky to work, it will press the bottom part of the staff.

Yours faithfully,

Dmitry