Nov 10, 2010: Holy Toledo
 

This is Toledo at night... not Ohio, the cool one. You know, Alcázar, the Cathedral, the Tagus.

http://cellar.org/2010/toledo1.jpg

Like most any city at night, there’s lots of lights, streets, parking lots, major buildings, where the tourists & rich people hang out.
There are dark areas too, in this case not only where the poor people hang out, but the scenic/rugged terrain down to the Tagus,
which I think is very much part of Toledo’s appeal.

When you want to take a picture of something dark, you use a flash.
Of course you’d need an atomic bomb to flash the whole city, and that would be kind of counterproductive.
Enter the Photographic Association of Toledo, with not a big flash, but lots of small ones.

http://cellar.org/2010/toledo2.jpg

Dividing the city up into zones, with lots of experimentation, and lots of HDR gigabytes in Photoshop, they ended up with this.

http://cellar.org/2010/toledo3.jpg

If you look closely at the really big picture, you can see the people with the lights, and even a couple in a boat near the bottom center.

And read the whole process here.

Great find there, Bruce.

Not me, 3-footys sent it to me.

That's amazing