Loretto Chapel Wheaton Illinois

My cousin was married here about 15 years ago. Too bad the pews were removed and replaced with chairs. Please give me your advise on processing. This was from three shots +2, 0 and -2 photomatix detail enhancer than cs5. Please help me improve with your critiques.

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Well now that looks like lighting challenge...let me count the ways.
Great job on the processing....the lighting runs pretty even all the way down the chapel the hanging lights and window light still good as is the detail.
Could you post the "0" shot unedited? Did you have to do any touch ups? Did you throw any other light on this?
Agree about the pews.

Only the Chapel Lighting was used. Here is the 0 ex

I would have added +4 and -4. Increasing contrast only slightly for a little more snap resulted in lost shadows and highlights. I agree about the chairs.

yea, I agree, needs more pop

Nice shot.

I think I would correct the white balance which should brighten the image a bit then add a little more contrast.

Thanks, I will try some of these suggestions; fee free to give it a go if you have the time. I would like to see what some other edits would look like?

OK, I did a white balance correction and than 25% increase in contrast?

CameraBuff wrote in post #13049610
Thanks, I will try some of these suggestions; fee free to give it a go if you have the time. I would like to see what some other edits would look like?

I already did when I made my post but felt that the adjustments made so little difference that it wasn't worth mentioning (with due respect to the other members of course - picky bunch, eh? )

Thanks for the critiques; next I will take a wider range of bracketed shots. With my 40d I can do -3,-2,-1,0,+1,+2,+3 easily.