Thats my boyfriend when he comes home from work. He came home from work with a gash on top of his head, how does one even get a gash there. Than he told me he bashed his head on a robots groin, and I didnt hear anything after that because I was laughing. less

Thats my boyfriend when he comes home from work. He came home from work with a gash on top of his head, how does one even get a gash there. Than he told me he bashed his head on a robots groin, and I didnt hear anything after that because I was laughing. less

Since no one has anything they wish to address.....

Since no one seems to have anything to bring up.....

I posted a poll a few weeks ago about what you wanted the topic of this meeting to me, and the runaway winner was histograms. Of course, there was only one vote, so "runaway" is probably not the best word. Since Petite Valentine was the only one to actually vote, and she wanted to learn more about histograms, that's what she'll get.

I apologize in advance that the pictures I'll be using are from the article I wrote on histograms, but my computer's hard drive died Sunday night, and I can't access Photoshop or any of my files. I had been backing up my files, of course, but it seems that they are in a format that can only be read by the program I was using to back up my computer. As such, the images you'll see are the best I can do with the circumstances being what they are. less

Since no one has anything they wish to address.....

Since no one seems to have anything to bring up.....

I posted a poll a few weeks ago about what you wanted the topic of this meeting to me, and the runaway winner was histograms. Of course, there was only one vote, so "runaway" is probably not the best word. Since Petite Valentine was the only one to actually vote, and she wanted to learn more about histograms, that's what she'll get.

I apologize in advance that the pictures I'll be using are from the article I wrote on histograms, but my computer's hard drive died Sunday night, and I can't access Photoshop or any of my files. I had been backing up my files, of course, but it seems that they are in a format that can only be read by the program I was using to back up my computer. As such, the images you'll see are the best I can do with the circumstances being what they are. less

Histograms, in my opinion, are the best thing about digital cameras. Yeah, seeing your image on the LCD screen after it has been taken is great, but it can be tough to see whether you've exposed your image properly on such a small screen. Historgams help greatly in that regard. What a histogram shows, then, is the range of tonalities (shadows, through midtones, to highlights) in your image.

Let's get right to it. This is a photo of the LCD screen on my camera showing the photo I took as well as the histogram for this photo and other information about the image:



Looking at the histogram, you can see that there are tonalities ranging from shadows (left side of the histogram) to the highlights (right side of the histogram), with the bulk of the tonalites nestled in the midtone range. What you might also notice is that none of the tonalities push up the edge of the histogram. For most of the photos you take, this is what you want to have happen.

Make sense so far? less