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It didn't exist back then in the same way it exists now. The photo was simply two seprate exposures superimposed in a fairly crude way - the horizon was the dividing line. There was no tone mapping or any complex blending. That still makes it HDR in the sense that it creates an image with greater
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to render seascapes showing both the sky and the sea. Such rendering was impossible at the time using standard methods, the luminosity range being too extreme. Le Gray used one negative for the sky, and another one with a longer exposure for the sea, and combined the two into one picture in
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It might not have actually been as difficult or complex as you might think. When you're developing a negative using an englarger, it's theoretically trivial to just block the part of the projection that you don't want to expose on the paper.
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Gustave Le Gray also invented the selfie and photobombing, but I don't think any examples of these survive.
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one of our better HDRers. I'd include a version with original frames as well, to make it more encyclopedic.
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