In this case, this is tone mapping in lieu of full HDR since I didn't do bracketed shots of the same scene. Tone mapping can simulate HDR (so me calling this HDR is somewhat of a misnomer--but most people don't differentiate--it's actually "fake" or "pseudo" HDR) in situations where you can't do real HDR. Here, I used a single RAW file to create the image (I just tone mapped from that single file--some people say you should convert the RAW to multiple JPGs first, others say you don't need to do that...I'm not sure which is true, but this is how I do it).
I don't know if everything I've written here is correct, I'm sure some of the experts here could lend their knowledge.