Quote: Original post by szecs
It's just my eyes then?
If I look into a mainly bright area, my eyes adapt, so I will see the bright areas fine, but the smaller dark areas fade to black.
The opposite is the same, if I look into a mainly dark area, my eyes adapt, so the few bright areas will saturate to white. Only in real lights of course, not images/monitor.
This is simulated pretty well with computer "HDR" imho.

That's actually something cool that happens before the signal gets to your brain in a lot of the cases.

Eyes are pretty cool how they work and it's worth looking into for anyone in a visual field or anybody curious. If you think it's just rods and cones, you've only scratched the surface (technically you've scratched under the surface and ignored the surface completely).