[HDRI] HDR on Flickr

[E. Reinhard]

Hi All,

After lots of hard work on high dynamic range imaging, it is
good to see that the general acceptance of this exciting
technology is on the up, even with amateur and semi-professional
photographers.

There is only one thing that's been bothering me for quite a
while now. In certain circles, especially on the Flickr website,
folks are using tone reproduction operators not only for dynamic
range reduction, but also to achieve a certain 'look'. The problem
I have with this, is that there is now a seemingly large community
that equates HDR with that specific look. This is wrong.

In an attempt to explain what is going on here, I have developed
a micro-site with some comparisons. It is strictly informal, and
gives my personal take on where the photography community appears
to have gone wrong. It is located here:

   http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~reinhard/tm_comp/

My aim was to write it such that it will be easy to understand for
a non-technical audience.

I hope that this will be useful to some.

Cheers,
Erik