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WHAT AN IMAGE WITH THIS TYPE OF HISTOGRAM WILL LOOK LIKE?


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March 19, 2007

 
- Gregory LaGrange

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  Regular image. It's not all to one side, and doesn't have any gaps, so it appears to be exposed correctly.
You don't have the picture that it came from?


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March 19, 2007

 
- Gregory LaGrange

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  Although it doesn't fill out to the far right or left, that could be from nothing white or black.
A picture goes with a histogram, and a histogram needs a picture. So you got only some of the chapters to the story.


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March 19, 2007

 

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  Although a histogram all to the left or all to the right could also be correctly exposed, it depends on what you are shooting, if you are photographing a white tea set on a white background, then yes, the histogram will be mostly to the right, but it doesn't mean the photo is overexposed, it means it is mainly made up of the "lighter grey" shades.

The image above, looks like it has a variety of the 256 shades of grey available, but it doesn't have complete black nor does it have complete white. But considering what you are photographing, we are unable to make a correct judgement as to whether the image was exposed correctly as we are unable to see the actual image this histogram belongs with.


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March 19, 2007

 

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"WHAT AN IMAGE WITH THIS TYPE OF HISTOGRAM WILL LOOK LIKE?"

Better than an all caps post.


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March 20, 2007

 
- Gregory LaGrange

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  That's why I said regular image.


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