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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneF" data-source="post: 311282" data-attributes="member: 12496">The histogram is only in the completed image file, so you check it after.  But, if it is not as you want, you simply change exposure (or compensate it), and take it again.  The advantage is, you are still at the scene, and can do it again.It is best to do that that at the scene (especially for clipping), rather than to push it later in software.  If it is clipped, color detail in that data is lost, gone, and those areas are not correctable.     If the exposure is only off a little, not actually clipped, yes, that can easily be done later, but generally, pushing exposure up much later can add noise.  If shooting Raw, we generally have +/- one stop leeway then (if not clipping).</blockquote>