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Originally uploaded by nekotaku
I just realized that I noticed a mosquito in here. Also, I realized that I noticed the adaptive qualities of the human eye at some point in my youth while staring at phosphorescent clock arms in the middle of my insomniac nights. When I would look at them, they would fade after a second or two, becoming less bright and more distinct. I wondered what that was, but had no clue. Now, in the research and studying I’ve done over the years I’ve discovered that’s due to the adaptive nature of the human eye, that allows us to see millions of possible colors and luminosities, only not all at the same time. However, thanks to the magic of HDR, we can capture these details and squish them down into the narrow band of human vision, simulating the adaptive nature of the eye across the image we present. This wasn’t a very good subject due to a number of reasons, but it does show you the remarkable difference in tones captured by the two difference styles of image composition. Film photography has the advantage of capturing a huge range of light, even though photographic paper can only display a fraction of that and the human eye can see most of what the paper can display. So the photographer can do darkroom tricks to compress the exposure from the film onto the paper and make the photograph very striking and covering a wide tonal range. Digital HDR photography simulates the film effect by layering a number of high bit RAW images and compressing their exposure range while retaining the detail in normally blown out or blackened areas. of course, nothing can help the side of this that just doesn’t have any light hitting it.