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 an arithmetic mean value using: x _ = 1 n * m * ∑ i = 1 n * m ⁢ ( x Gi ) , determining a gain parameter p and a blurring factor b, wherein the blurring factor is proportional to the arithmetic mean value x 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.