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Originally Posted by J____
that is high dynamic range. The single shot image will be totally different and the shadows will be way dark.
you are probably thinking of something like this when your thinking of HDR:
that is just the way of it's extreme tone mapping, and not my cup of tea. It gives a cool effect but does nothing for realism.
if Rcubed's pic had more lights in the scene, it pretty has the same tone map as these Night time HDR's:

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That last image I would consider as HDR, but not the second.