These guides grow out of my own experience of taking, processing, preserving and sharing True HDR photographs. Explore the possibilities, find a practical workflow or choose a guide for the task you want to tackle.
New to True HDR? Start with the introduction.
Understand HDR and see the results
What is True HDR photography?
Discover the possibilities, see which subjects benefit and understand how True HDR differs from conventional photography and ‘old’ HDR.
True HDR galleries
Explore a rapidly-growing selection of my True HDR photographs and view the possibilities across different subjects. See how True HDR brings subjects ‘alive’!
La Sagrada Familia in True HDR
See how light, colour and architectural detail come together in my photographs of Barcelona’s inspiring basilica.
Discover the potential in your photographs
Why shoot in RAW?
Keep the information your camera captures so you can make more of your photographs now and in the future. You may need less storage than you think!
Bring old RAW files to life
See how revisiting photographs from my archive reveals new details, enhanced colours and more lifelike images.
The Big Experiment!
Find out about my attempt to address the limitations in web delivery systems through the successful creation of my own CDN-based HDR image delivery system.
Preserve, process and choose formats
My True HDR workflow
Store RAW files efficiently, generate separate SDR and HDR masters, and then create AVIF website images and Instagram gain-map JPEG exports from the same pair.
Guide to HDR image formats
Understand JPEG XL for HDR masters, AVIF for website delivery and gain-mapped JPEG for Instagram, alongside other format options.
The research behind the workflow: explore how lossless compression reduced my RAW storage and what lossy DNG adds—and why I keep my RAW files lossless.
Share and display
Instagram from the same masters: our standalone pipeline now produces tested HDR gain-mapped JPEGs without requiring a paid Photoshop export plugin.
Create HDR video slideshows
Turn your RAW photographs into HDR slideshows for Vimeo, YouTube or your own television.
Use HDR photographs in Keynote
Explore my experience of incorporating HDR photographs into presentations and exporting the results.
Capture HDR screenshots on a Mac
Use screenshots to capture and share what you see when working with HDR images on macOS.
For the full HDR effect, view the photographs using a compatible HDR display and browser.