High Dynamic Range Image Examples

Greg Ward, Anyhere Software

The following examples were used to compare the following High Dynamic Range Image formats: OpenEXR, Radiance RGBE and XYZE, 24-bit and 32-bit LogLuv TIFF, 48-bit scRGB, and 36-bit scRGB-nl and scYCC-nl. For details on our comparison methodology, go to the referring page.

Clicking on any of the small images will take you to a larger one. Clicking on the image name itself will take you to a high dynamic range version in Radiance RGBE format. (You should probably only control-click on those links, as most browsers do not know how to deal with HDR formatted images at this point.) Links are also provided under each image to the corresponding comparison page, where the image has been encoded in the above-mentioned formats, and we have conducted an error analysis of the results.

Apartment_float Apartment_float.hdr
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Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 4.7

AtriumNight AtriumNight.hdr
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Image courtesy Karol Myszkowski
Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 4.1

bigFogMap bigFogMap.hdr
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Image courtesy Jack Tumblin
Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 3.6

dani_belgium dani_belgium.hdr
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Image courtesy Dani Lischinski
Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 4.1

dani_cathedral dani_cathedral.hdr
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Image courtesy Dani Lischinski
Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 4.1

dani_synagogue dani_synagogue.hdr
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Image courtesy Dani Lischinski
Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 2.0

Desk Desk.hdr
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Image courtesy ILM
Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 5.2

Display1000_float Display1000_float.hdr
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Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 3.4

memorial memorial.hdr
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Image courtesy Paul Debevec
Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 4.8

Montreal_float Montreal_float.hdr
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Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 3.1

MtTamWest MtTamWest.hdr
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Image courtesy ILM
Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 3.4

nave nave.hdr
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Image courtesy Paul Debevec
Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 6.0

rend01 rend01.hdr
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Source simulation
Dynamic range (log10) 3.0

rend02 rend02.hdr
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Image courtesy Charles Ehrlich
Source simulation
Dynamic range (log10) 4.1

rend03 rend03.hdr
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Image courtesy Charles Ehrlich
Source simulation
Dynamic range (log10) 3.2

rend04 rend04.hdr
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Source simulation
Dynamic range (log10) 4.5

rend05 rend05.hdr
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Source simulation
Dynamic range (log10) 3.3

rend06 rend06.hdr
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Source simulation
Dynamic range (log10) 3.6

rend07 rend07.hdr
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Image courtesy Martin Moeck
Source simulation
Dynamic range (log10) 8.9

rend08 rend08.hdr
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Image courtesy Arup Lighting
Source simulation
Dynamic range (log10) 3.7

rend09 rend09.hdr
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Image courtesy Saba Rofchaei
Source simulation
Dynamic range (log10) 3.9

rend10 rend10.hdr
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Image courtesy Carlo Sequin
Source simulation
Dynamic range (log10) 5.0

rend11 rend11.hdr
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Image courtesy Saba Rofchaei
Source simulation
Dynamic range (log10) 4.1

rend12 rend12.hdr
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Image courtesy Charles Ehrlich
Source simulation
Dynamic range (log10) 8.9

rend13 rend13.hdr
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Source simulation
Dynamic range (log10) 4.1

rosette rosette.hdr
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Image courtesy Paul Debevec
Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 4.4

Spheron3 Spheron3.hdr
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Image courtesy Spheron
Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 5.8

SpheronNapaValley SpheronNapaValley.hdr
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Image courtesy Spheron
Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 3.2

SpheronNice SpheronNice.hdr
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Image courtesy Spheron
Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 4.7

SpheronPriceWestern SpheronPriceWestern.hdr
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Image courtesy Spheron
Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 2.8

SpheronSiggraph2001 SpheronSiggraph2001.hdr
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Image courtesy Spheron
Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 4.5

StillLife StillLife.hdr
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Image courtesy ILM
Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 6.1

Tree Tree.hdr
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Image courtesy ILM
Source photo
Dynamic range (log10) 4.4

Page created Dec 14 2003 11:13:48p