Stained Glass

[venchka]

Said and said again. Digital needs multiple merged exposures. NO, that doesn't mean HDR. If you had really good lighting equipment and set up for a really long exposure of the window, you could "paint" in the interior with multiple artificial light bursts balanced to be about 1-2 stops below the window exposure level.

PS: Fix the color. Surely the church isn't a sickly pale green color. Is it?

[robh1920]

Those are untouched photos used for example. I appreciate the response I will try again and post the results.

[kenw]

The only way this rank amateur has done this type of shot is as mentioned by dtscds: multiple shots merged/layers in post.

[zerovision]

Do you have two pocket wizards for off camera flash? If so, can you set the flash outside the window, do a long exposure with rear curtain flash?

[LonestarMan]

Originally Posted by dtscds

Forgive me if this is too simplistic a suggestion...
I think you will probably need multiple exposures combined in PS. One for the window and one for the rest. The correctly exposed window shot will leave everything else very dark, the correctly exposed sanctuary will leave the window blown out. Merge the best of each into one. (Don't ask me how to do that--I'm out of my pay grade here, just thinking of how it could be done...)

For me this is how I would approach the shot. Bring both (or more) into Photoshop, with the shot exposed for the sanctuary on top and the properly exposed glass on the bottom. Next add a layer mask to the top layer. Using your soft brush tool and with the foreground color set to black, paint the overexposed glass and watch the properly exposed glass appear. Just like magic! If you are unsure about layer mask, let me know and I will explain further.