Highly Defensible Redoubt

My new(ish) lighting book tells me that my camera can only 'see' a light range of about 7 stops - ie; the difference between the lightest and darkest parts of the image without losing detail.

The human eye can see a much larger dynamic range. Hence why people combine two or more shots together to give the illusion of a wider dynamic range and represent or amplify what they 'saw'.

This is how I saw Edinburgh castle this afternoon at about 16:20 - with the sun setting and casting a yellow glow on the castle and lifting it out of the sky and wispy clouds. I couldn't get in one shot an image I was happy with - so this is a combination of two.

Had some time to kill this evening on the way to a friend's for dinner (N & E - thanks for a lovely meal BTW) so I took my tripod for a walk to get some practice at night shots and light trails. But I don't like any of them as much as my favourite blip subject :-)

Rejects here:

* Red Lights

* White Lights

* Tree Arch Path

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LOTD: Today I loved Photofiend's escalator blip and S2's streetlamp and snow silhouette blip - two very different but excellent B&W images.