Abstract

High dynamic range imaging produces images with a much greater range of light and color than conventional imaging. The effect is stunning, as great as the difference between black-and-white and color television. High Dynamic Range Imaging is the first book to describe this exciting new field that is transforming the media and entertainment industries. Written by the foremost researchers in HDRI, it will explain and define this new technology for anyone who works with images, whether it is for computer graphics, film, video, photography, or lighting design.
* Written by the leading researchers in HDRI
* Covers all the areas of high dynamic range imaging including capture devices, display devices, file formats, dynamic range reduction, and image-based lighting
* Includes a DVD with over 4 GB of HDR images as well as source code and binaries for numerous tone reproduction operators for Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X
"High Dynamic Range Imaging is a landmark in the history of imaging science. In the 1930s... Mannes and Godowsky invented what became known as Kodachrome and the world of color photography was forever changed. We are now on the cusp of a change of similar magnitude and the catalyst is not color, nor even digital—it is HDR."—from the foreword by Mark D. Fairchild, Xerox Professor of Color Science, Rochester Institute of Technology