You are out in the field. After taking a photo, you look at your camera’s back screen. This brings a smile to your face — it looks pretty great. At home, however, it’s a different story. When you go to process it on your home computer, the same photo looks
Here’s why your camera’s histogram isn’t the full story, and how exposure compensation saves the day. The histogram. That mysterious graph on your camera – it looks complicated, but it’s supposed to be your guide to perfect exposure, right? Well, not exactly. While histograms are fantastic tools, they have limitations,
One word — histogram. What is it? The histogram is a picture of the spread and brightness of the pixels. Higher spikes in your histogram indicate more pixels at that level of brightness. Why to not use the LED on your camera? Making decisions based on the LED from the
Whether you use it in-camera or in your post-processing software, you ultimately will come across a set of mountains that help to describe the pixel distribution by the brightness of your image. This mountainous graphic is known as a histogram. What the “mountains” mean Histograms in Lightroom and Adobe’s Camera
Just getting started with photography? One of the first things that you need to understand is the histogram, and how it works whether in-camera or in post-process. It’s an important technical detail that will allow you to get properly exposed photos with as much detail as possible. Understanding what this
A popular way to make portraits is to place the sun behind your subjects (often done in a field of tall grass at sunset). It’s a pet peeve of mine, however, that these pictures are often the wrong color. White Balance for the Faces Your camera’s white balance control helps
On all the smartphones I get my hands on these days there’s a n HDR function. Quite often I find that the default is ‘Auto’ but what difference does it really make? What Is HDR? High Dynamic Range or HDR is a technique of combining three or more images to
Like many of our readers, I am the resident Photoshop expert among my friends and family. Every year, around this time, I am asked to do at least one custom helmet for a friend’s fantasy football team. I usually poke around Google, looking for a template that allows me to
Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from a new book called the Photofocus Guide: Develop Great Images in Lightroom. This book is almost done and we’ll be giving away free copies soon to all our readers thanks to Mosaic. Be sure to check out the Lightroom Learning Center. The
Guest post by Juan A. Pons Twitter “Expose to the right” is an expression that you may have heard before, but my experience has been that most folks don’t understand what it means or how how to do it. In simple terms what this means is that in order for
