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[bobbyjo007]

Suppose you are inside a room with indoor lights.  One wall has a large window which allows you see the scenery outside. The interior has fluorescent-like lighting, but outside the window there is sunlight or cloud or whatever mother nature gives you on that day.

 

If you want a photo which captures sharp details both of the inside room and the outdoor scene, and captures the correct as possible colors of the indoor room and outdoor scene, how would you best accomplish this (without post-processing or Photoshop techniques)?  The photo will be taken from the indoors room. Would you focus the lens on an object outside the window? Or point the lens at an indoors object? Would you even use flash?  I guess there's no right or wrong answer. I'm just curious what you guys do in this type of situation.

 

Thank you.

 

[Merco_61]

When I shot architecture on film, we usually used corrected filters in the shape of foil or sleeves on the light sources to normalize everything to daylight. Today, in the digital age, it is easier to make two exposures, one balanced for indoors and the other for daylight and composite the two.
Stacking shots that don’t individually have enough DOF is easy enough in post. This used to be the main reason to use view cameras back in the day.