A very interesting article — What is HDR, anyway? — by Ben Sandofsky
Apple and Google called this stuff “HDR” because “HDR Construction Followed By Automatic Tone Mapping” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. But just to be clear, the HDR added to the iPhone in 2010 was not HDR. The final JPEG was an SDR image that tries to replicate what you saw with your eyes. Maybe they should have called it “Fake HDR Mode.”
I know quibbling over names feels as pedantic as going, “Well actually, ‘Frankenstein’ was the doctor, you’re thinking of ‘Frankenstein’s Monster,’” but if you’re going to say you hate HDR, remember that it’s bad tone mapping that is the actual monster.
When you are making a fine print you are creating, as well as re-creating. The final image you achieve will, to quote Alfred Stieglitz, reveal what you saw and felt.
— Ansel Adams in The Print