Do you know what the histogram is and are you using it in-camera when you shoot and in Lightroom as you edit images? The histogram is a graph that gives you lots of information about your exposure and tones in your image, and I recommend learning about it and using it both in-camera and in [...]
I wrote this post in early 2009, so I am sure that many of my readers haven’t seen it. I decided to repost it because it is an important concept for digital photographers to understand. As you may have heard, with digital, unlike film, your goal should be to expose your image as brightly as possible, [...]
I wrote about the importance of exposing as brightly as possible, short of blowing out important highlights in my post “What Lurks in the Shadows: The Case of the Black Cat”. I encourage you to read it if you haven’t. I thought I would show you an example of a perfect exposure that in fact looks [...]
