Learn how to read your histogram and nail your exposures: part 2
July 22nd, 2009This is part 2 on learning to read your histogram and nail your exposures by John Mireles. Check out part 1 here if you missed it.
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10:09 amJuly 22nd, 2009
Thanks Jodi! So very helpful!
10:14 amJuly 22nd, 2009
What a great tutorial … thanks!
10:18 amJuly 22nd, 2009
Jodi and John. So clear and so amazing. Thanks for sharing so much.
10:37 amJuly 22nd, 2009
I love these posts Jodi! These are so helpful. Its so important to get it right in camera first.
10:53 amJuly 22nd, 2009
Thank YOU Jodi great great info! can’t wait till tomorrow.
11:13 amJuly 22nd, 2009
Great tutorial, thanks for sharing!
11:20 amJuly 22nd, 2009
Jodi and John, This was so helpful. Thank you so much.. Very well explained.
11:22 amJuly 22nd, 2009
Thanks Jodi, great series!
11:44 amJuly 22nd, 2009
These are SO TOTALLY ROCKIN’ COOL!! I am heading over ther now to visit John – so amazing!! Thank you for sharing these, Jodi… and John!
12:15 pmJuly 22nd, 2009
Thank you for sharing such great information! (fyi… the link to see part one does not go anywhere.) I didn’t feel confused, though, not having seen part one.
Thanks again!
Sarah
12:16 pmJuly 22nd, 2009
Thank you for sharing such great information!
Thanks again!
Sarah
12:26 pmJuly 22nd, 2009
So helpful … thank you for sharing all of this information with us!
12:35 pmJuly 22nd, 2009
when i click on part 1 it says not found, i wanted to start from the beginning
1:55 pmJuly 22nd, 2009
Thanks for providing this series for us, Jodi! I’m always learning something new from your blog.
2:03 pmJuly 22nd, 2009
These are very helpful, being able to see another’s photo along with the histogram, and really KNOW that the author is then talking about. Us visual/auditory learners are very grateful!!!
3:01 pmJuly 22nd, 2009
Awesome. TFS!!!
3:28 pmJuly 22nd, 2009
Thank you so much!!! This information is awesome.
3:33 pmJuly 22nd, 2009
Thanks Jodi! He really put into very simple terms. I can’t wait to start using my histogram!
4:05 pmJuly 22nd, 2009
Awesome. I can use my histogram now and actually know what I’m doing!
7:42 pmJuly 22nd, 2009
Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
9:08 pmJuly 22nd, 2009
I finally understand histograms now. Awesome information and explained well!
Thanks!
11:59 pmJuly 22nd, 2009
i love this. i’m learning so much.
2:07 amJuly 23rd, 2009
BRILLIANT! I feel as though a cartoon light bulb just went on over my head! I think I need to watch the tutorial 2-3 more times to fully understand, but I feel hopeful that this info well help me get to my goal of SHARP pics! If you don’t remember me, you will remember my THIRST to learn how to take SHARP pics!
9:02 amJuly 23rd, 2009
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9:21 amJuly 23rd, 2009
Learning to read a histogram was one of my personal photographic goals for this year. Thank you so much for this!!! Its like a lightbulb has been turned on for me!
12:41 pmJuly 23rd, 2009
Maybe I’m the only slow one, but I’m having trouble getting it. First, I don’t understand how the information can go beyond the graph (e.g. if there’s 10,000 pixels in the photo, and 0 is the blackest part, and the vertical part of the histogram goes up to 10,000, then even if the entire photo was black, in my mind the histogram should be one straight bar that goes all the way up on the left).
Second, I don’t understand how you can look at the graph and tell whether or not the information is clipped.
8:56 amJuly 27th, 2009
So helpful, as always. Thank you