I've found that strange histograms in the studio are usually the result of black or white backgrounds which dominate. A neutral background of green, blue or red yield a conventional histogram. Paul -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David Savage" > Subject: OT (sort of): Interesting thought. > > > > > Now his theory was that chimping is a symptom of people: > > > > a) not trusting their own skill > > b) not trusting this new fangled digital technology. > > > > > I found this idea of a correlation between chimping & trust quite > > interesting, so I thought I'd throw this out for comment & discussion. > > I haven't used a flash meter in the studio ever, since I started shooting > digital. It seems > rather a waste of a perfectly good anboard evaluation system to ignore the > viewscreen and > histogram. I don't chimp very often during a shoot. If we are taking a break, > or > the model is > changing outfits, I'll review what I've shot, but once I'm back working, the > review screen is > off. > Having said that, studio stuff can give some odd histograms, so there was a > small learning curve > to get it right. > > William Robb > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions.
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