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Using Your Histogram
Most of us who have been around digital cameras for a while have come to love the histogram, which is basically a bar graph that charts the tonality of a photo. At a rudimentary level, it makes it easy to keep from under- or over-exposing photos. From a more nuanced perspective, it is possible to use the histogram to expose photos in a way to achieve a specific tonality for one or more parts of the scene, much like using the zone system. If you’ve never fully understood how to read a histogram, check out this video I put together:
For an even more detailed explanation, you can read my blog post that goes along with this video here: http://monkmanphoto.com/archives/4212.