1. A method for carrying out a dynamic range compression in traffic photography, proceeding from a digitally provided original image having n*m pixels, the method comprising: creating a grayscale image mask having grayscale values x Gi from the original image, wherein i=1,. .. , n*m; calculating the arithmetic mean value x _ = 1 n * m * ∑ i = 1 n * m ( x Gi ) , determining a gain parameter and a blurring factor b; creating a blurred grayscale image having grayscale values x ui by blurring the grayscale values x Gi with the aid of the blurring factor; and creating a new image by superimposing the original image with the blurred grayscale image while applying the gain parameter.