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RE: Photography ... (High) Dynamic Range!
Yeah, that makes sense now. You are really talking about tone mapping, so the shifting of tones down into the dynamic range of the monitor for example (which probably only has 6-8 stops of dynamic range) I guess. There's a lot of confusion between HDR and tone mapping but i tend to see the HDR part as the camera only bit and then the tone mapping as the "compression of stops" onto what is visible on the final medium.
True, but I think one (HDR), can not go without the other (Tone Mapping). If the dynamic range of an HDR image is reduced to make everything look good, the photo becomes dull because the contrast is very low. There are several techniques to make a reasonably true-to-life image, which still shows sufficient detail in the light and dark parts. One of those methods is tonemapping.