I'm speaking more to using the histogram post exposure in rendering. At that point reflected light is the only light that counts, so the histogram can indeed tell you a very co Plate exposure story.
Paul via phone > On Jul 24, 2017, at 9:40 PM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> >>> 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 <[email protected]> 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 >>>> [email protected] >>>> >>>> “...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 >>> [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. >> >> -- >> 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. > > > > -- > -bmw > > -- > 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. -- 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.
