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<blockquote data-quote="Blade Canyon" data-source="post: 639996" data-attributes="member: 15302">Maybe this needs a new thread, but here's my point.&nbsp; If the histogram accurately shows what light levels were in the actual shot, then you don't need a full histogram no matter how many youtube videos tell you that's what you should be trying to get.&nbsp; The histogram for a sleeping black cat on a black velvet pillow should be skewed way to the left, even though everyone says your exposure should be set so that the histograms are biased toward the right.&nbsp; The histogram on the original photo should show you what the scene really looked like.My point about cropping was that the initial desire to move the sliders in so they are touching all the data (which is what I do all the time!!) is not necessarily accurate, regardless of whether you do it with a whole photo or just a cropped portion.&nbsp; But it can make the photo look better than the actual scene.&nbsp; The guy in the Youtube video wants the board to look nice and bright, even though it probably did not look that way in real life.A photography teacher once taught me that the right side of the histogram contains more bits of data, so maybe it's better to be biased right initially and then correct in post.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blade Canyon, post: 639996, member: 15302"] Maybe this needs a new thread, but here's my point. If the histogram accurately shows what light levels were in the actual shot, then you don't need a full histogram no matter how many youtube videos tell you that's what you should be trying to get. The histogram for a sleeping black cat on a black velvet pillow should be skewed way to the left, even though everyone says your exposure should be set so that the histograms are biased toward the right. The histogram on the original photo should show you what the scene really looked like. My point about cropping was that the initial desire to move the sliders in so they are touching all the data (which is what I do all the time!!) is not necessarily accurate, regardless of whether you do it with a whole photo or just a cropped portion. But it can make the photo look better than the actual scene. The guy in the Youtube video wants the board to look nice and bright, even though it probably did not look that way in real life. A photography teacher once taught me that the right side of the histogram contains more bits of data, so maybe it's better to be biased right initially and then correct in post. [/QUOTE]

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