{"id":1003,"date":"2009-06-05T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T02:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/?p=1003"},"modified":"2009-06-05T12:00:50","modified_gmt":"2009-06-05T02:00:50","slug":"understanding-histograms-the-things-that-look-like-mountains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/05\/understanding-histograms-the-things-that-look-like-mountains\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Histograms (the things that look like mountains!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The very first time i saw a Histogram on the LCD screen of my 300D, I wondered what the hell had happened. I didn&#8217;t remember taking a shoot of a black lump on a white background. Having a quick look around to make sure no one was watching, I grabbed the manual. Ahhh, it is digital representation of the exposure of the photo I just took.<\/p>\n<p>Understanding the histogram is one of the first things I would suggest to people new to using a digital camera. Now, because I am so hopeless at explaining it, I thought I would link you, the good reader, up with a very good explanation thanks to the good people at Luminous landscape. Read on for histogrammy goodness.<\/p>\n<p><em>Possibly the most useful tool available in digital photography is the histogram. It could also well be the least understood. In this article we will look at what a camera histogram tells the photographer and how best to utilize that information.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luminous-landscape.com\/tutorials\/understanding-series\/understanding-histograms.shtml\" target=\"blank\">Understanding Histograms<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.luminous-landscape.com\/images7\/histo-yellow.jpg\" alt=\"Mountains!\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very first time i saw a Histogram on the LCD screen of my 300D, I wondered what the hell had happened. I didn&#8217;t remember taking a shoot of a black lump on a white background. Having a quick look around to make sure no one was watching, I grabbed the manual. Ahhh, it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[217,319,346,473,545],"class_list":["post-1003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-chimping","tag-dynamic-range","tag-exposure","tag-histograms","tag-it-looks-like-a-tobelerone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pqIRT-gb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toddnorburyphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}