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<blockquote data-quote="J-see" data-source="post: 387236" data-attributes="member: 31330">The histogram gives an indication but it isn't really accurate enough to see what got clipped and what not. For me I rely on experience and good guessing for that.This is the histogram of the SOOC shot.[ATTACH]127291[/ATTACH]What I pay most attention to for night shots is the opposite side. Once I start clipping the right side, I have a hard time doing something with the shot. The dark matters less.Even while it got squeezed to the left, it contains loads of data.When overexposing it to the max it shows the relevant data and the inevitable losses. Where the histogram shows severe differences and spikes up and down, tones are lost. As expected for this shot, that's in the dark/shadow region. Even when you lost tones there, you can always desaturate the ugly colors and they're usable in night shots.[ATTACH]127292[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="J-see, post: 387236, member: 31330"] The histogram gives an indication but it isn't really accurate enough to see what got clipped and what not. For me I rely on experience and good guessing for that. This is the histogram of the SOOC shot. [ATTACH=CONFIG]127291._xfImport[/ATTACH] What I pay most attention to for night shots is the opposite side. Once I start clipping the right side, I have a hard time doing something with the shot. The dark matters less. Even while it got squeezed to the left, it contains loads of data. When overexposing it to the max it shows the relevant data and the inevitable losses. Where the histogram shows severe differences and spikes up and down, tones are lost. As expected for this shot, that's in the dark/shadow region. Even when you lost tones there, you can always desaturate the ugly colors and they're usable in night shots. [ATTACH=CONFIG]127292._xfImport[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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