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Are there any HDR standards for photography?

I've been getting into finding out how HDR video works and it's pretty cool, but this makes me wonder if there are any standards that exist for still images. I know that HDR photography (bracketing exposures) is a thing and this makes finding information on this extremely difficult.  I'd like to know if it'd be possible to color grade STI images without being bound by 100 nits.

 

I know that I can select different color spaces such as Adobe RGB for my image output, but I'm still limited in terms of luminance.

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There's no HDR standard for photography because there doesn't really need to be be. Most modern cameras capture about 14 stops of DR, that's alot.

You also have to understand that alot of commercial output of photography is print. Historically, photography has always been about taking an image with wide DR and cramming it all down to an output medium of paper.

 

I'll also add, that every instance of HDR video or games I've seen in person, IMO looks like overprocessed dogsh*t compared to normal SDR well graded.

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