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Reading and understanding histograms
From the course: Advanced Craft Photography
Reading and understanding histograms
One of the most convenient and helpful tools that you can find to measure your overall tuning range and color range within your crow photography is the histogram. And the histogram is basically just a graph. And this graph is so helpful and so useful. That there's one in Photoshop, Photoshop Elements Lightroom, Camera Raw plugins. There's even histograms on your camera, on your digital SLR and most compact cameras as well. So, when and why should you use a histogram? What does it do? Well on our camera while we're taking a photograph, while we're taking an exposure. We can use a histogram to gauge whether or not we have a proper exposure because it's going to give us the full tonal range. Meaning the darkest darks and the lightest lights and everything in between. And in Photoshop or any of the other image editing software applications, the histogram works in the same way. So I have a few images open here. And I just want to show you, the differences in the tonal range with these…
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Foundations of composition and staging4m 28s
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Foundations of ISO, aperture, and shutter speed3m 1s
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Camera Raw: What? when? why?5m 6s
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How bracketing can save your exposure5m 47s
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Understanding key tones11m 12s
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What is dynamic range?4m 58s
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Reading and understanding histograms6m 3s
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Creating striking images with contrast1m 52s
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Shooting crafts in black and white4m 6s
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Metering light to get it right3m 11s
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Minimizing and maximizing shadows3m 29s
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Getting awesome shots in low-light settings5m 41s
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Crafting moods with light3m 42s
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