The Churches of America photo project by Charleston photographer Steven Hyatt uses a special digital photography process called HDR to capture church interiors, which can be difficult to shoot. He explains:
With that problem in mind, a hope to solve it, and a desire to increase the visibility of the interiors of Charleston’s historic churches I decided to revisit the Unitarian church with my camera. Using a process called HDR, or high dynamic range photography, I discovered that the difficulty of photographing the vast differences in brightness and darkness encountered in a church could be molded into something more manageable and closer to the way the human eye sees.
From that point I began traveling to each church, photographing it, and posting the pictures on the web for everyone to view. Inspired by the experience, as well as the response the photos of each church received, I have continued to photograph other churches in and around the Charleston area, while also expanding the project into Asheville, NC, Savannah, GA, and Columbia, SC.
Click over and check out the amazing shots of Asheville’s Basilica of St. Lawrence.