Location : It is the church of St. Sylvain at Bonnat, interesting externally as a fortified church, but as you can see it is also very elaborately decorated internally.

I captured this image using a tripod-mounted Canon 5DmkIII camera and a Canon TS-E 17mm f/4 L lens. I used Live View focusing at 10x on the Crucifix. Shift was used to keep the Stained glass window vertical and tilt was not needed. The camera was set to manual exposure mode, f/16, ISO 160 and daylight white balance. I then captured a series of 13 exposures from 30 seconds all the way to 1/125th of a second with a one stop increment. The RAW processing, creating and saving of the HDRI file was all done in Photoshop CC. This HDRI TIFF was then opened and tone mapped in Photomatix Pro 5. The final adjustments were then done back in Photoshop. As a last step I used Nik Color Efex Pro 4 plug-in with the bleach bypass and vignette to polish it off!