One more note – if you’re using a reasonably new-ish camera (5DIV or later) and shooting at relatively low or even moderate ISOs and using a good RAW converter, there’s almost no noise penalty for lifting the shadows a couple of stops. Recent Canon sensors are ‘ISO invariant’ (Sony and Nikon have been that way longer) meaning it doesn’t matter if you raise the ISO in-camera or push the RAW file.

Practically, that means that if blown highlights are a major problem for you, you can just set your camera to –1 stop (more or less) of EC, or use AE microadjust if your camera has it, and push the shadows of your images in post.