Exactly, they don't lie, but they can't tell you the whole story either. And they only show you reflected light, not incident. The more tools you have to measure light the better informed you'll be with more consistent results.
Still, not using histograms is to miss out on a lot of great exposure info, and probably get poorer exposures. On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 9:09 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@mac.com> wrote: > Histograms don't lie, but you have to know their language. For example. A > photo with no highlights will display a histogram with no right side. You can > still use it to fine tune contrast and tonal range. > > Paul via phone > >> On Jul 24, 2017, at 9:04 PM, P. J. Alling <webstertwenty...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Learn to love the histogram, learn to ignore it when it lies. >> >> >> On 7/24/2017 2:54 PM, Eric Weir wrote: >>>> On Jul 22, 2017, at 12:52 PM, Ken Waller <kwal...@peoplepc.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> I'm not familiar with Lightroom or the Fuji, but I've run into similar >>>> issues with my K-3 and Photoshop. I've overcome it by looking at the image >>>> in the RGB histogram and adjusting the offending color to reduce that >>>> particular offending color channel.’m >>> Thanks, Ken. I confess I don’t understand the histogram very well and have >>> not tried to make use of it. In light of your suggestion I took at look at >>> Lightroom’s version of it and played around with it a little. Didn’t make >>> much progress sorting it out. At the moment it seems a more complicated, >>> perhaps more sophisticated, way of doing what I do by manipulating >>> Lightroom’s tone controls. >>> >>> Regards, >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> Eric Weir >>> Decatur, GA USA >>> eew...@bellsouth.net >>> >>> “...we are a form of invitation to others and to otherness..." >>> >>> - David Whyte >>> >>> >> >> -- >> America wasn't founded so that we could all be better. >> America was founded so we could all be anything we damn well please. >> - P.J. O'Rourke >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
