Stained Glass Window Troubles

[jlrichmond76]

Anyone have any suggestions to keep large stained glass windows from burning out during a ceremony? Flash was not permitted at this church, and if I lowered my aperture, I under exposed the rest of the shot. Any one have any tricks? Is there anything I can do in PP to address this issue?

[medicdude]

you could HDR it, or at least bracket it and PP the two shots together.

[picturecrazy]

You are pretty much out of luck, unless it's very late evening or very early morning where the light is very low and weak. I've had moderate success in using Highlight Tone Priority (currently only on Mark III and 40D) and underexposing a bit, then bringing up shadows in Lightroom. Not optimal but it's about the best you can do in-camera.

[medicdude]

were you talkking about the light in the center, or the light comng in the windows?

[jlrichmond76]

Yeah, that enormous light hanging from the ceiling didn't help, but I was addressing the light from the windows. I was just wondering what others would have done in my situation to at least help the problem, without a lot of PP. Maybe it's just a lost cause out of the box...

[sevillafox]

Maybe you could crop it out on this one...it might work.

[Darvon]

I would have bracketed the photos, overlaid them and masked out the "blown out" portion of the photo.

[jlrichmond76]

Yeah, can't add detail now...

[davidfig]

Tripod and bracketing. Do you have this in RAW? maybe you can do something about it by creating two files

[joruiz]

Yeah, can't add detail now...

unless you go back there and take another shot, exposing for the stained glass window. If it isn't far from you, it should work. just take a print with you so you can compose as similar to the original as possible, it shouldn't be difficult to make it work in photoshop.