Tone Mapping

Here are some pictures illustrating tonemapping. Each of them have a different
value of k. All of the pictures have only 100 samples per pixel unless noted otherwise.

k = 0.001:
k = 0.05:
k = 0.3:
 
k = 0.5:
k = 0.7:
k = 1.0:
 
k = 5.0: