 Linda Stander |
histograms can somebody explain to me how to read a histogram. I have recently purchased a canon digital 300d rebel and would love to know exactly how to read a histogram.
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Vince Broesch |
It is a graphic display of the distribution of your image pixels across the entire range of 256 levels. You can look at each color (red greeen blue) on its own chart or all pixels together on one chart (compostite). How it should look depends on your photo. If there is no white in the photo for example, you would expect no pixels on one end of your chart. But if your photo contains everything from white to black, then your histogram should show pixels all across the chart. I hope that makes sence. Vince
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
If you meant the histogram on the camera monitor, you're not going to have the seperate color display. But the rest of it is the same. A properly exposed picture with a wide range of colors should have peaks that are kinda high, and towards the middle of the graph. But a picture that has lots of dark areas like a night time shot, even if it's exposed right, the histogram is going to be towards the left.
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Dan P. Brodt |
http://www.photoxels.com/tutorial_histogram.html
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Dan P. Brodt |
http://www.livingroom.org.au/photolog/tips/histogram_tips.php click on each category for more....
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doug Nelson |
See http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/histograms1.htm Please pass this link around to others with similar questions. Please check out Sean McHugh's other tutorials. They are excellent!
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