I own D850. The histogram looks different in my camera DSLR screen and different in the ACR, while editing; Usually throws it to the left dark site. The shadows are deep, the colours are darker. Is it incompatibility of the equipment, high mgpxls camera or..? What shall I do to avoid this?It is ruining my pics. Thx
Tony, you make histograms so chill. You're just a chill dude editing some chill photos with some chill histograms. If there was a chill histogram you'd be all the way to the right. Keep up the chill work, man.
Much good information. Where the RGB histogram has advantages over the luminance histogram is where there is a disproportionate amount of one colour. Imagine taking a close-up shot of an orange flower, surrounded by dark green leaves (don't sound like a very exciting shot, but plenty of people take images like that). If you expose to the right using the luminance histogram you may well find that the petals look rather flat and lack contour. Look at the RGB histogram and you will probably see that the red channel is blown and the exposure needs to be reduced to avoid this. Small point but can save your bacon in some circumstances. Otherwise, nicely put.
There are professionals who don't know how to explain the technicalities of photography but you are not one of them. I can't thank you enough for excellent and informative tutorials. I wish you did underwater photography so I could learn more about that area.
Excellent explanation Tony! Love your content, though I am curious about why you would want to expose to the right- I always thought it was best practice to expose to the left in order to be able to recover highs later in post.
Many don't use histogram or just ignores it these days but the benefits of it are amazing...you can correct your picture's contrast, brightness etc then and there from just seeing the histogram, and changing the camera settings. Then there is not much need to edit every photograph
How often you can find a pro teaching photography features like this on youtube? Different screen calibrations is never a problem after Tony's explanation of histogram.
I tried searching for a video on your channel a few weeks ago and couldn't find anything like this but now it's here! Really makes more sense now - I'll have to put it to use now, appreciate all the good content you guys put out! :)
thank you for a great and informative video. I had no knowledge of how histograms worked before watching this, and now it really makes sense. keep up the great work
Histograms are a dark art, but you have just enlightened me. Thank you Chelsea's assistant for exposing me to this tutorial. It's as clear as black and white now. :p
Very useful. Regardless of how much I think I know about a particular element of photography, I was learn something new about it from your videos :) Although, I was waiting for the part where you talked about live histograms shown on the camera screen and how to react to what they're showing.
Great video and information. Amazing how small knowledge gems such as this will make the understanding your camera simpler and improve our photography. Thanks Tony
Guys, thank you very much! Your videos are just treasure for a newbie like me. The more I watch the more I understand I was a monkey with camera, and now finally I evolve :)
Thanks Tony 😊 ... this is the single most important post you've done (to me). I actually picked up skill that I never bothered with and it is awesome. I tried what you discussed and played with some images that I thought were throw aways, and fixed them; some with stunning results 🤔. Big props 👏 Alvin
These videos are amazing! So informative and really well thought-out. I love your content and the books you are selling are at such a great price point. It really shows that you're trying to make photography accessible to everyone.
Thanks and I was aware of the histogram but didn't use it much. And yes I have been fooled by looking at the screen on my camera so let's ad this tip to my bag of tricks. On a separate note our big screen TV has UA-cam built in great.... but I do not see a like button or way to add coments so I jump back to the phone... any suggestions.
I use the histogram all the time if I'm shooting in bright conditions, or else take a test image and dial in any required compensation after checking it. Whichever method I use, the histogram is at the heart of it.....
He says that color histogram is not very useful. I think it's very useful, because the luminosity histogram is just an overage of the colors and does not tell if some color component is overexposed. It's quite common that especially sunlit faces get overexposed in the red color, sky in blue, and vegetation in green. Overexposed areas are flat and post-processing is impossible. Another issue is with the recommendation that you should shoot bright, because there's less noise in the upper part. This is true in the sense that while CCD or CMOS cells themselves are mostly linear, the signal-to-noise ratio is better in the bright end. In JPEG images, you also have less noise in the bright end, because they are flattened out in the logarithmic scale. However, logarithmic flattening and packing into 8 bits also loses much of the linear information, which is why it's better to either shoot raw or underexpose. Further, shooting in raw does not always save from the problem, because the CCD and CMOS cells have an internal _antiblooming_ feature, which makes images nonlinear in the brighter end and hence you lose information.
Unfortunately the histogram can be misleading in very specific situations because it averages out the three primary colours. I got pictures where the histogram was perfect but one colour was blown out completely. Sadly most cameras don't show "RGB" histogram in live view so you need to take the picture first and then check the levels of the primary colours. If one colour is blown out, you can underexpose a bit and retake the picture.
This was helpful, but it seems like it is a guideline and not a rule for all shots. For instance, I was not able to have it "shoot to the right" on some hummingbird pictures I recently took. If I did, the white on his neck was completely blown out (even though it wasn't touching the far right) - making the picture look really bad in my opinion. If I shifted the histogram more to the left, so that there was a bigger gap between the edge of the histogram and the far right side (which you said would be underexposed) - the neck was no longer overexposed, which got all the detail back on the neck. The rest of the bird mostly looked sharp and detailed as well. Although on some of the black feathers on the edge of the wing did loose some detail. So a worse looking histogram, made the better looking picture in this case.
Tony, I have your book SDP. and watch many of you videos, but all your adjustments are made in either Lightroom or Photoshop. I have neither. But I do have Adobe "Elements 12". Can you do some videos using that?
Hi Tony and Chelsea, Great channel and by far one of the best among the photographers! Keep up the good work! Said that, do you know if the Nikon D610 has a histogram in live view? I can't really find info about that on the net...
i know hitting the left and right clips blacks and whites respectively but what happens if the histogram hits the top anywhere in the plane? i've been searching for the answer but haven't been able to find it anywhere
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I own D850. The histogram looks different in my camera DSLR screen and different in the ACR, while editing; Usually throws it to the left dark site. The shadows are deep, the colours are darker. Is it incompatibility of the equipment, high mgpxls camera or..? What shall I do to avoid this?It is ruining my pics. Thx
Tony, I really find your style of teaching to be very soothing and informative. Thanks for doing what you do.
Tony, you make histograms so chill. You're just a chill dude editing some chill photos with some chill histograms. If there was a chill histogram you'd be all the way to the right. Keep up the chill work, man.
Nicely explained Tony! Keep making great content!
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Mac Battle Indeed, took it with my telescope last year.
6:18 that noise scared the hell out of me haha
Much good information. Where the RGB histogram has advantages over the luminance histogram is where there is a disproportionate amount of one colour. Imagine taking a close-up shot of an orange flower, surrounded by dark green leaves (don't sound like a very exciting shot, but plenty of people take images like that). If you expose to the right using the luminance histogram you may well find that the petals look rather flat and lack contour. Look at the RGB histogram and you will probably see that the red channel is blown and the exposure needs to be reduced to avoid this. Small point but can save your bacon in some circumstances. Otherwise, nicely put.
thank you, finally i got the whole histogram mystery cleared in my head. keep up the good work, greetings from germany.
There are professionals who don't know how to explain the technicalities of photography but you are not one of them. I can't thank you enough for excellent and informative tutorials. I wish you did underwater photography so I could learn more about that area.
Wow, I just learned so much about the histogram. Thank you so much! The information you give us is priceless and so is SDP book!
This is probably the best explanation of histograms I have come across. Thank you!
Solid explanation on histogram values. Really enjoyed this video. Keep it up, Tony.
Excellent explanation Tony! Love your content, though I am curious about why you would want to expose to the right- I always thought it was best practice to expose to the left in order to be able to recover highs later in post.
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one of my most useful youtube subscriptions .
thanks Tony.
Great info Tony!! I love your presentation skills as well, very well said!
Thanks Chelsea and Tony...
following all your videos with a lot of attention and trying to repeat your tips and tricks..
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Many don't use histogram or just ignores it these days but the benefits of it are amazing...you can correct your picture's contrast, brightness etc then and there from just seeing the histogram, and changing the camera settings. Then there is not much need to edit every photograph
On 9:22 you probably meant 4 times more NOISE, rather than 4 times more IMAGE. :)
I want more image. Now.
i hate it when my image has too much image!
I hate it when my image has too much image!
How often you can find a pro teaching photography features like this on youtube? Different screen calibrations is never a problem after Tony's explanation of histogram.
I tried searching for a video on your channel a few weeks ago and couldn't find anything like this but now it's here! Really makes more sense now - I'll have to put it to use now, appreciate all the good content you guys put out! :)
Thanks, Kelvin!
Thank you so much for this one! I always knew to use the histogram but I needed to really understand it before being able to use it.
Got the book last month and love it! Joined the group and loving it! And now thinking of buying the book for a friend on his birthday!
As always, very clear and distinctly helpful. Thanks.
Fantastic!! I'm a beginner & have been trying to grasp the histogram....this was very informative & easy to understand! Thanks you!
I enjoyed this video. It was explained in a simple easy to learn way. Thanks Tony.
Thank you for the videos you and Chelsea uploaded, I learned a lot from both of you.
I think some washed out image looks really good and adds a stylistic look or vintage style.
Yeah there are some instances where you just just ignore the histogram. It's just down to personal preference in the end.
Another great tutorial. Thanks!
Another really useful video, thank you!
Excellent advice as usual. One of these days I'm going to buy both your books I promise!
Well explained Tony! altough I sometimes prefere washing out the black tones, I think it gives a more relaxed feel to an image.
Thanks Tony, you're video explanations are always great.
Great Explanation - I didn't know anything about it - Thanks ✌
Thanks for the refresher. My new D7200 offers this in the field. Very handy.
thank you for a great and informative video. I had no knowledge of how histograms worked before watching this, and now it really makes sense. keep up the great work
Histograms are a dark art, but you have just enlightened me. Thank you Chelsea's assistant for exposing me to this tutorial. It's as clear as black and white now. :p
Very useful. Regardless of how much I think I know about a particular element of photography, I was learn something new about it from your videos :)
Although, I was waiting for the part where you talked about live histograms shown on the camera screen and how to react to what they're showing.
Great video and information. Amazing how small knowledge gems such as this will make the understanding your camera simpler and improve our photography. Thanks Tony
Guys, thank you very much! Your videos are just treasure for a newbie like me. The more I watch the more I understand I was a monkey with camera, and now finally I evolve :)
This great, great advice. You'll never want to edit your photo without Histograms again
Thanks for explaining it cleary
I am fan of you Mr. Tony, i have learnt alot from your videos and still learning.
Thanks alot for your efforts also thanks to Ms. Cheksea 😊
Thanks!
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Thank you Tony. Excellent explanation and remainder.
Thanks Tony 😊 ... this is the single most important post you've done (to me). I actually picked up skill that I never bothered with and it is awesome. I tried what you discussed and played with some images that I thought were throw aways, and fixed them; some with stunning results 🤔. Big props 👏
Alvin
Thank you for the tip regarding noise coming from pixels on the left of the histogram.
thanks for clarifying histograms, great intro
Thank You Tony!
Very good introduction to histograms. Thank you!
Outstanding video!
I never knew how to figure that funny 'graph' chart looked like. Thank you for helping with that!
Thanks. Your usual in-depth excellent coverage. You did present some precise/ideas I hadn't yet dealt with. Good stuff!
top notch help... thanks
got your book too
These videos are amazing! So informative and really well thought-out. I love your content and the books you are selling are at such a great price point. It really shows that you're trying to make photography accessible to everyone.
I'm going to make myself use the histogram thank you for showing me the importance
I'm so glad you made this video I've been waiting for you to do this one
Thank you for in-depth histogram vid.
Love your video's man, easy and pleasent to follow and understandable explanations. I will be buying a book of you someday soon :D
Thanks for the sharing ❤
Excellent explanation. Thanks so much!
Do you have a video on how you calibrate your monitor or apply color profiles along your picture workflow?
Thanks and I was aware of the histogram but didn't use it much. And yes I have been fooled by looking at the screen on my camera so let's ad this tip to my bag of tricks. On a separate note our big screen TV has UA-cam built in great.... but I do not see a like button or way to add coments so I jump back to the phone... any suggestions.
Very nice. We learned something today. Thank you for sharing.
excellent information
This was actually helpful! Thanks guys!!
9:00 - Now there's a little gem! Thanks, Tony!
I love this, thanks
amazing video. thanks for helping me understand
Thank you very much! Finally understood fully how histogram works. :)
Understood thank you, you are great teacher!
Great vid.
I suggest you put a one-dollar foam windscreen on the mic, will cut down sibilance.
Thumbs Up! I want more of this type of content. (Sharpening, Tone Curve, etc)
Very helpful.
I use the histogram all the time if I'm shooting in bright conditions, or else take a test image and dial in any required compensation after checking it. Whichever method I use, the histogram is at the heart of it.....
Very informative. Thank you.
Wow, this was revolutionary. Thank you!
Thank you!
very well done
histogreat video dude!
Thanks a lot +Tony for this video, cleared a lot of doubts!!
I don’t know if you’ll answer but I was told to shoot underexposed is better then over since blown out can’t be fixed
Great Video!
He says that color histogram is not very useful. I think it's very useful, because the luminosity histogram is just an overage of the colors and does not tell if some color component is overexposed. It's quite common that especially sunlit faces get overexposed in the red color, sky in blue, and vegetation in green. Overexposed areas are flat and post-processing is impossible.
Another issue is with the recommendation that you should shoot bright, because there's less noise in the upper part. This is true in the sense that while CCD or CMOS cells themselves are mostly linear, the signal-to-noise ratio is better in the bright end. In JPEG images, you also have less noise in the bright end, because they are flattened out in the logarithmic scale. However, logarithmic flattening and packing into 8 bits also loses much of the linear information, which is why it's better to either shoot raw or underexpose. Further, shooting in raw does not always save from the problem, because the CCD and CMOS cells have an internal _antiblooming_ feature, which makes images nonlinear in the brighter end and hence you lose information.
Thank you again Tony!
As always awesomeness, gracias Tony...
Cool video... what does it mean when a luminance histogram is 'flat'; as in little vertical (Y axis) development across the board?
This was very much needed, thank you! :)
You guys are like the Captain & Tenille of Photography.
Unfortunately the histogram can be misleading in very specific situations because it averages out the three primary colours. I got pictures where the histogram was perfect but one colour was blown out completely. Sadly most cameras don't show "RGB" histogram in live view so you need to take the picture first and then check the levels of the primary colours. If one colour is blown out, you can underexpose a bit and retake the picture.
Thank you , Great information. I am wondering how do you read histogram before taking picture if you doing a long exposure or a night photography ?
Tony, have you mentioned when the "hills" cropped on the top of the histogram? What does that mean?
very helpful
Thanks for the explanation Tony :)
Thanks, very informative
Thank you 😊 ..
Thanks, Tony!
This was helpful, but it seems like it is a guideline and not a rule for all shots. For instance, I was not able to have it "shoot to the right" on some hummingbird pictures I recently took. If I did, the white on his neck was completely blown out (even though it wasn't touching the far right) - making the picture look really bad in my opinion. If I shifted the histogram more to the left, so that there was a bigger gap between the edge of the histogram and the far right side (which you said would be underexposed) - the neck was no longer overexposed, which got all the detail back on the neck. The rest of the bird mostly looked sharp and detailed as well. Although on some of the black feathers on the edge of the wing did loose some detail. So a worse looking histogram, made the better looking picture in this case.
Great video, one question: what does it mean if the histogram has lots of smaller jagged peaks or just fewer big smooth peaks? Thanks
Tony, I have your book SDP. and watch many of you videos, but all your adjustments are made in either Lightroom or Photoshop. I have neither. But I do have Adobe "Elements 12". Can you do some videos using that?
Hi Tony and Chelsea,
Great channel and by far one of the best among the photographers! Keep up the good work! Said that, do you know if the Nikon D610 has a histogram in live view? I can't really find info about that on the net...
i know hitting the left and right clips blacks and whites respectively but what happens if the histogram hits the top anywhere in the plane? i've been searching for the answer but haven't been able to find it anywhere