When I began learning photography, like most, I started in ‘P’ mode. After reading a few books and watching a handful of tutorials, I started venturing in the ‘AV’ mode and got comfortable. I then started working with my mentor, the first thing he encouraged me to do was to switch to Manual mode and taught me how to read a histogram.
The histogram is an important tool that every beginning photographer should master. It will help you properly expose your photographs. In the video below, John Greengo in a segment for CreativeLive, gives a quick and clear explanation on histograms – how to read one and why it’s important for you and your photography.
[REWIND: UNDERSTANDING THE LIGHTROOM HISTOGRAM AND USING IT TO PROCESS IMAGES – LIGHTROOM IMAGE PROCESSING MASTERY WORKSHOP]
The 5 minute segment is a great video to watch if you’re a beginner or share with a friend who is just starting out.
[Via PetaPixel/CreativeLive]
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Great simple explanation. Thank you.
Excelente video, siempre es bueno saber todas las funciones de la camara y la manera que funciona.
A great simple explanation. Thx!
The best way I find to teach people this is to take pictures of grey walls, then have them over-expose and under-expose that, and then have them take pictures of red / green stuff, or a blue sky. (So they can see the RGP histogram change as well..)
=Matt=
I’ve never thought of that thanks for commenting
great video