>>4243426>don't know or understand Histograms.Care to learn? It's easy.
Pic related is the first one I found. You might know the terms blacks, shadows … highlights, whites from a post processing app.
The higher the "hill" of the histogram is at any point, the more pixels have this luminancy.
>hill on the leftDark picture
(is your real life scene not dark, like the scene in the example, but the hill of your histogram is disposed to the left? Then your picture will be underexposed)
>hill in the middleEvenly light image – this does not mean "correct" exposure in every scene.
>hill on the rightbright image (or overexposed image)
>hill on the left, valley in the middle, hill on the righthigh contrast image
And so on. Switch on the histogram in your camera and study the one in Lightroom or whatever, change your settings and see how the histogram reacts. Walk around with your camera, point it out if the window and so on, you'll get it right away.
>why is this important?Your histogram represents your sensor. If you trust it, you'll get files that are much easier to work with.
>!If the left or right side of your hills are clipped (overexposed picture in the example), there is no information being picked up in the sensor. You won't be able to find any detail there and pushed your sensor beyond it's limit.
If you don't use your histogram you don't use your cameras full potential – you might even go on the internet and argue that a phone could compete with a GRIII, without having seen what your GRIII is capable of.
