Hi @mikemyers
Editing such a photo is covered in your high dynamic range thread.
No need to go through it all again.
As for capturing, @Joanna has written about that a few times too.
Find it somewhere in this post.
“I usually start by putting the camera in manual exposure mode and setting the exposure compensation to a positive value that suits the tonality of the brightest part of the subject: if it is pure white set it to +2, if it is off-white, set it to +1, or somewhere around that.”