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<blockquote data-quote="Horoscope Fish" data-source="post: 631859" data-attributes="member: 13090">The histogram graphically reflects the tonal range of my shot and provides me the same type and degree of information regardless of how it's shaped. Even what appears to be a lack of information in the histogram is useful information. I agree the histogram is not necessarily good for evaluating exposure as I (or you or anyone else) wants it in any particular shot since &quot;correct&quot; exposure is entirely up to the photographer. &quot;Correct&quot; exposure for a polar bear in a snowbank is going to be very different than the &quot;correct&quot; exposure of a nighttime shot of a city skyline and the histograms will look very different for those two scenes. But it's not the job of the histogram to tell me what exposure is &quot;correct&quot;; the job of the histogram is to show me the amount of tones of various brightness levels in a particular image and too help determine if I have highlight-clipping or loss of shadow detail at specific exposure settings. I find that helpful information. Further, I can examine histograms for individual color-channels for that same information. If my histogram shows I'm consistently blowing out the highlights in, say for instance, the Red color-channel while I'm doing a shoot, I would find that helpful information as well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Horoscope Fish, post: 631859, member: 13090"] The histogram graphically reflects the tonal range of my shot and provides me the same type and degree of information regardless of how it's shaped. Even what appears to be a lack of information in the histogram is useful information. I agree the histogram is not necessarily good for evaluating exposure [I]as I (or you or anyone else) wants it in any particular shot[/I] since "correct" exposure is entirely up to the photographer. "Correct" exposure for a polar bear in a snowbank is going to be very different than the "correct" exposure of a nighttime shot of a city skyline and the histograms will look very different for those two scenes. But it's not the job of the histogram to tell me what exposure is "correct"; the job of the histogram is to show me the amount of tones of various brightness levels in a particular image and too help determine if I have highlight-clipping or loss of shadow detail at specific exposure settings. I find that helpful information. Further, I can examine histograms for individual [I]color-channels[/I] for that same information. If my histogram shows I'm consistently blowing out the highlights in, say for instance, the Red color-channel while I'm doing a shoot, I would find that helpful information as well. [/QUOTE]

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