Photography Advice Requested

[Zoot]

I need to take a lot of photos in a church. The photos are of framed photographs hanging on walls, and the existing frames cannot be taken down, nor the photos be removed from the frames.. The intention is to recreate the photos for heritage purposes. Cleaning up etc is no problem, I am looking for help in how to approach this exercise.

The inside of the church is all painted white, and there are lots of huge windows that provide reflections and light flowing in from all angles (the only stained glass window is above the photo wall, so colour contamination is not really an issue).

My current thought is a full frame camera on a tripod with a long lens, and some sort of portable lightbox (white on the inside, tin foil or black on the outside) that I can position around ecah image one at a time.

So, over to you - if you were doing this, what would YOU do?

[RiK]

Polarising filter to help kill reflections would be a start.

[Chontler]

Why a "long lens"?
I'd go for the tripod and a prime/portrait lens, keep the lighting low and use a high f-stop to soak it all up.