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You know those gorgeous pictures you shot while on vacation — the ones with the beautiful scenery and family portraits where you wish the sky was not white? The big brains at MIT’s Media Lab are working on it. Photographers today sometimes try to compensate for overexposed blown-out skies — and other instances of overexposure — with HDR technology, something already built into iPhones, or with post production photo software. HDR uses multiple shots with different exposures to achieve a wider dynamic range. But MIT seeks better results from a single photograph. A paper presented to the International Conference on Computational Photography outlines a way to get the…

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