This 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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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.
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…
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.
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?
Thanks Jodi, going to adjust my LCD right now.
Linda
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.
Thanks Jodi! John did a great job explaining the histogram in simple terms. I can’t wait to go and try to use it!
Awesome series! Thanks!
Thanks so much for this wonderful series. It’s been very helpful!
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
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.
Thanks to both of you for providing this great information! John’s teaching style is spot on. What a resource!
These were fabulous!! Thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks for sharing these tutorials!
I really would love to see the tutorials, but they aren’t coming through, any suggestions? Thanks.
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.
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!
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!
excellent series. Thanks John!