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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 167898" data-attributes="member: 13090">You're welcome. That's the article that really demystified Histograms for me. The thing to remember is a histogram does *NOT* tell you if you're exposure is correct or not. It graphically shows you the amount of shadow, mid-tones and highlights in a photo; you still have to look at what you're shooting, then your histogram and interpret what the histogram is telling you. If you have a lot of bright sky in your shot, you should EXPECT the resultant histogram to have a lot of spikiness at the right end... Because your photo has a lot of &quot;spikiness at the right end&quot;. That's not the same thing as over-exposure. Same thing goes for shadow. Lots of dark subject matter in the shot *should* show a bias toward the left side of the display, that doesn't mean your shot is under-exposed. See the difference? It's a critical thing to understand....</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 167898, member: 13090"] You're welcome. That's the article that really demystified Histograms for me. The thing to remember is a histogram does *NOT* tell you if you're exposure is correct or not. It graphically shows you the amount of shadow, mid-tones and highlights in a photo; you still have to look at what you're shooting, then your histogram and interpret what the histogram is telling you. If you have a lot of bright sky in your shot, you should EXPECT the resultant histogram to have a lot of spikiness at the right end... Because your photo has a lot of "spikiness at the right end". That's not the same thing as over-exposure. Same thing goes for shadow. Lots of dark subject matter in the shot *should* show a bias toward the left side of the display, that doesn't mean your shot is under-exposed. See the difference? It's a critical thing to understand. [COLOR=#ffffff]...[/COLOR] [/QUOTE]

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