Learn how to read your histogram and nail your exposures: part 3
July 23rd, 2009This is part 3 on learning to read your histogram and nail your exposures by John Mireles. Check out part 1 and part 2 if you missed them.
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9:55 amJuly 23rd, 2009
This series is wonderful! I’ve learned so much – thank you! I even found the histogram in my camera (I didn’t know it had one) and turned down the brightness of the LCD display.
10:19 amJuly 23rd, 2009
Off to adjust the LCD brightness on my camera. I do have a question though… On my 5D Mark II the LCD screen is different than my previous camera the Canon 40D in that it’s brightness changes depending on setting. Is there a way to shut that function off? I need to check out my manual I suppose…
10:54 amJuly 23rd, 2009
Really enjoyed this series by John. I learned quite a bit for a short 3 part series. Would love more. Thank you Jodi, as the others said, I am off to check my LCD brightness.
11:01 amJuly 23rd, 2009
Loved this series … thank you. One question … if you are shooting and you are in bright sunlight and you see it is overexposed on on the right side of the histogram … do you dial down? What if the histogram is spread across the screen with some highlights blown … do you leave it?
11:08 amJuly 23rd, 2009
Thanks Jodi, going to adjust my LCD right now.
Linda
11:22 amJuly 23rd, 2009
I am using Elements 7 (wish it were Photoshop) on Windows XP Professional. Does anyone know if the histogram box can be made bigger? It is really hard to read. Even though I do not use Photoshop this has still been very valuable.
11:56 amJuly 23rd, 2009
Thanks Jodi! John did a great job explaining the histogram in simple terms. I can’t wait to go and try to use it!
11:59 amJuly 23rd, 2009
Awesome series! Thanks!
12:14 pmJuly 23rd, 2009
Thanks so much for this wonderful series. It’s been very helpful!
2:07 pmJuly 23rd, 2009
This was so helpful, my LCD wasn’t set at the brightest, but I lowered it, and I can see the difference already. Great tips
8:57 pmJuly 23rd, 2009
This was so helpful!! I’m always underexposing and having to correct in post-processing…maybe this LCD change and always watching the histogram will help me out! Thanks for all these tips.
1:08 amJuly 24th, 2009
Thanks to both of you for providing this great information! John’s teaching style is spot on. What a resource!
8:55 amJuly 24th, 2009
These were fabulous!! Thanks so much for sharing!
10:08 pmJuly 24th, 2009
Thanks for sharing these tutorials!
1:53 amJuly 28th, 2009
I really would love to see the tutorials, but they aren’t coming through, any suggestions? Thanks.
7:58 pmJuly 28th, 2009
Thank you for these three tutorials…they were wonderful! Very helpful, now I’m not so afraid of the histogram. Now just need to check out my camera and make sure it is set up correctly.
10:30 amJuly 29th, 2009
That was so informative. Now have to try out this method. My histogram was a mystery to me, now it makes much more sense. Thanks!
12:11 pmAugust 7th, 2009
Thank you! I always looked at the histogram in photoshop with very basic understanding. These tutorials were perfect to really get a good sense of how to use it during shoots!