St. Paul’s Cathedral

I arrived at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Oakland after the scheduled time for confessions and prayer in the sanctuary as planned.  I was concerned when the lights were turned off and I saw a priest leaving the building.  I asked the priest if the lights could be turned on again and he was not willing because no one would be around to turn them off again.  This was a bummer because I would have scheduled at another time when I knew the lights would be on for sure.  Despite the low light, there were a few photos that worked out better than expected.  I was taking high dynamic range photos again and I think that really helped because I could bring out some of the detail in the shadows when tone mapping the merged images.