From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 1)
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The histogram in practice
From the course: Photography Foundations: Exposure (part 1)
The histogram in practice
- So let's add something to this scene and take apart what the histogram is doing. I just happened to have right here, a bouquet of flowers. I don't know how that happened. So I'm going to set this on my scene and then focus. Now, when I focus, the histogram will change because now, more tones are sharpening up and sharper tones have more contrast in them, so I still go that big blob right in the center that is representing all of that gray. It's also probably, well, actually, that hump went down when I put the flowers in. So I've got a whole bunch of gray there and not as much gray there because the flowers are covering up the gray behind it. So, I've lessened the amount of gray by adding some of these other tones and that's changed the distribution of the histogram, so right now, what I'm seeing is, look at the left edge. It's edging a little bit closer to black so there are some darker tones than were in here before. Where this really starts to get interesting is if I add, still…
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