Chapter 4: Tonemapping
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.” That’s what the great Ansel Adams once told his students. Nothing could summarize the process of tonemapping better: We will now make a photograph out of the HDR data, claiming an extremely active involvement in the process.
Tonemapping is a technical necessity as well as a creative challenge.
It’s pretty much the opposite of what we did in Chapter 3: In HDR generation, we reconstructed the full dynamic range of a scene by assembling it slice by slice from the source images. That’s ...
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