I include a palace shoot in my Venice workshop every year, and some of the rooms are huge. The lighting to the eye doesn't look extremely uneven, but photos reveal that from the large wall of windows at one end of a room to the other end lit only by incandescdent light fixtures, the f/stop range can be at least three stops and maybe more. The model in this picture was seating in front of the windows, and even though you can see that she's much brighter than the background, this is after I've worked on this picture quite a bit to even out the lighting. HDR is required or, at the very least, a lot of post-processing in ACR or Lightroom. I usually move the shadows slider all the way to the right and the highlights slider all the way to the left.
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Jan 30, 2016, 3:42:33 AM
Jim - Hi Carlton, Flash is allowed but the room is so huge that a single flash would be pointless. If you want to light the middle and back of the room, you'd need multiple flashes. Maybe six of them. What you are seeing here is all natural light.
Jan 30, 2016, 2:31:52 AM
Carlton McEachern - This would be a very tricky situation for a natural light image and I suppose flash is not allowed