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Using histograms

Using histograms

Now let's talk about the histogram. A histogram is a tool to help you judge the brightness of your image. It's a camera feature that you're largely going to find in the world of DSLR photography, that's now coming to the world of video. Histograms can be used to properly adjust your exposure and to tell if you have too many blown out highlights, or too many areas that are underexposed or too dark or whether your tones are represented as you seen them with your naked eyes. Now what a histogram does, is it plots the brightness of all all the pixels in the image. So, the left side of a histogram represents the very darkest areas of your image and the right side represents the very brightest areas of your image. So, a histogram reads from left to right, dark to bright. And it can roughly be divided in to five tonal shades. So right here, we have a pure blacks, over here next to that, we have our shadows, in the middle we have our midtones, our highlights are right here. Things reflecting…

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