But how would I properly lit a landscape?..
But even in a controlled environment, the more contrasty the scene is the better. The controlled light may in fact increase the required DR.
False.
It doesn't matter how contrasty your scene is, if your display medium can only show 6-7 stops of DR, then you either have to squeeze all of that extra DR into 6-7 stops, allow some of the highlights to blow, allow some of the shadows to crush, or a combination of all of the above, or you just shoot it within 6-7 stops to start with. You lose far more contrast when squeezing twelve stops into seven than when you control the scene to be within seven stops to begin with. That's why we have all different kinds of tone mapping software - to try and restore some of that lost contrast when we squeeze more captured dynamic range into a lower dynamic range display medium.
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