aRtBee opened this issue on Oct 17, 2011 · 76 posts
bagginsbill posted Mon, 17 October 2011 at 3:22 PM
What I have is an HDR environment - actual light levels, linearly recorded, of a real place. The sky is bright but overcast, so it's a very uniform hazy light gray.
Rendering that directly, without GC, produces an image where the environment photo looks too dark - darker than it really was. Also my 3D ground, props, and figure are lit correctly according to how much light was in the real place at the time, but they don't look like it.
This is a bit like listening to a tape with Dolby noise reduction encoded in it, on a device that has no Dolby circuit, except it's the opposite. Instead of boosted highs (Dolby) we have suppressed lows (Gamma = 2.2).
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