{"id":480,"date":"2008-06-02T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T23:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/?p=480"},"modified":"2008-05-23T16:26:38","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T23:26:38","slug":"the-high-dynamic-range-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/the-high-dynamic-range-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The high dynamic range revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently some people are making beautiful HDR images like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/hdr\/pool\/\">these<\/a>. This takes an input image with a high dynamic range (often composed of multiple exposures with different exposure times to get good colour resolution over a wide range of brightnesses) and \"compresses\" the range down to monitor or printout ranges. This can give an effect similar to an oil painting (painters use similar techniques).<\/p>\n<p>But such techniques will soon become unnecessary as the dynamic range that monitors can display increases. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/computer-graphics-of-the-future\/\">I've mentioned before<\/a> I've seen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dolby.com\/promo\/hdr\/technology.html\">this technology<\/a> in action and it's seriously impressive - the pictures are incredibly realistic, like looking out of a window. As these monitors drop in price they will become ubiquitous and then we will want to take pictures that take full advantage of them.<\/p>\n<p>Shooting RAW with a good digital SLR goes some way towards this, but I think that with the new generation of monitors will come a new generation of cameras optimized for taking HDR images. This might be as simple as reading the sensor several times over the course of the exposure, or it might be a completely new sensor design.<\/p>\n<p>With new monitors and new cameras, the entire graphics pipeline will be re-engineered for HDR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently some people are making beautiful HDR images like these. This takes an input image with a high dynamic range (often composed of multiple exposures with different exposure times to get good colour resolution over a wide range of brightnesses) and \"compresses\" the range down to monitor or printout ranges. This can give an effect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reenigne.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}