This photo does not have a high dynamic range.
I selected a reasonably fast shutter
to capture sunset light on different cloud layers
and de-emphasize pointless clutter on the ground
without turning ground features into silhouettes.
Nowadays some cameras will automatically
take a sequence of photos with different settings
and also automatically select the most
information-rich area of each photo
and synthesize a high dynamic range image
without washed-out lights and without pure black shadows.
When I conceived this image holding my camera
I didn’t want either to obscure shadows or
eliminate shadows. I wanted to create
darks with enough information to be tempting—
tempting to look in to, to see the emptiness,
to see how much space is there when cars are not there.
When there are no parked cars and no cars driving through
there is a lot of empty space in parking lots.
One night I saw a fox run through this parking lot.
When there are no parked cars and no cars driving through
there’s enough room for even larger animals.
From light to dark there is a high dynamic range
and that range is there whether we see it or not.
One night I saw a fox run through this parking lot.
When there are no parked cars and no cars driving through
there’s enough room for even larger animals.
A fox is one point on a high dynamic range
of animals and I wonder what else runs through
parking lots outside the range of our camera eyes?
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High Dynamic Range Imaging at Wikipedia
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