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Your suggestions please on how to photograph a bright sunny day through a window while capturing the interior of the window wall showing correctly exposed furniture in the foreground. The idea is to show the outside landscape view from inside the house.

I am shooting a D850, Nikkor 24-70 and tried with a SB 800 to fill-flash the interior. Mixed results.

What say you?

smussler Loc: Land O Lakes, FL - Formerly Miller Place, NY

Maybe this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mp6jvdGwC8A

jim quist Loc: Missouri

You can lower the highlights slider to lower the exposure in the window.

rdgreenwood Loc: Kennett Square, Pennsylvania

Shoot HDR. If you go carefully in your post-processing and don't overcook the image, you'll get great results. I do this frequently, as in the attached photo where the outside looks quite natural.

BTW, this was shot with a Nikon D800E, on a tripod, no flash.

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Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

This is an excellent guide, with one exception. It does not address the difference in color between window light and interior lighting. There are at least 2 ways to handle this. You can estimate the correct color balance and set the camera's white balance accordingly. Or you can take just 2 exposures - one for the window light with the correct white and color balance, and one for the interior, with the correct white and color balance.
This involves blocking out the window opening for the interior-only shot. I use a ColorChecker Passport to correctly set the colors for each exposure. when the images are merged, and you use the ColorChecker Passport's "Dual Illuminant" color profile, a perfectly balanced mix of both lighting sources will result. Blocking out the window will provide a pure internal lighting scenario, while exposing for the much brighter window light will help ensure that there is very little interior lighting entering into that exposure.

The other approach is to light the interior with speedlights/strobes to provide a quasi-daylight color balance. This approach is faster/easier, but less accurate. The method chosen should take into consideration the client's needs for color faithfulness.

RWR Loc: La Mesa, CA

Light the interior to match the exposure of the outside landscape.

twosummers Loc: Melbourne Australia or Lincolnshire England

You really have 2 choices. Method one is to use HDR and to ensure that your brackets cover the dynamic range of the entire scene. Method two is to expose for the window view and to light the room with flash or flashes.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

In manual, meter the outside window exposure, set the camera to that, now, set the flash to TTL auto, tilt the flash head up and behind you. Take shot, adjust as needed the EC on the flash. You will like the result.

w00dy4012 Loc: Thalia, East Virginia

Shoot raw. Manual exposure. Measure exposure on the window and , depending on the lighting in the room, increase the exposure +1-+2. In post, adjust the highlights and shadows until you get the look you like. If the dynamic range is within your camera's capability, this should work.

pahtspix

IMHO I'd go with HDR..That's been from my own experience.

Hamltnblue Loc: Springfield PA

HDR is the way to go.
Quick and easy for this type of photo.
Not as easy with people in the photo but still doable

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

3 choices: the two above and Photoshop.

Place the camera on a tripod so it doesn't move between shots.
Take one shot exposing properly for the room.
Take one shot exposing properly for the window.

Load the two shots into layers in Photoshop.
Take the shot of the window and select the window. Copy the selection and paste it into a new layer. Turn off the old window layer.
Place the new window layer over the room layer.
Done.

suntouched Loc: Sierra Vista AZ

You can wait for a partially cloudy day, or shoot early in the morning or later in the afternoon to best equalize the inside and outside light. And then bounced flash or HDR. Try both to see what gives you better results. You will be able to edit more successfully in Raw.

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

That's hard to do when shooting interiors - without the light looking forced. The current "style" in RE photography is to use photo lighting to enhance, not overpower the ambient light.

The other possibility is to follow Suntouched's advice to shoot early AM or late in the afternoon, when the light from the window is less intense, and likely warmer in color.

gvarner Loc: Central Oregon Coast

This is the best answer.