{"id":1136,"date":"2016-02-05T01:00:31","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/?p=1136"},"modified":"2016-02-04T20:47:30","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T04:47:30","slug":"52-project-2016-exposure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/52-project-2016-exposure\/","title":{"rendered":"52 Project-2016-Exposure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I usually reference the histogram graph in post production, but the challenge this week was to use it <em>in<\/em>-production and judge exposure.<\/p>\n<p>In general, dark tones from your photo are weighted to the left on the histogram graph and lighter tones to the right. Although there is no such thing as a perfect histogram graph, it can be a very useful tool.\u00a0 The histogram will show you when your photo is overexposed (entire graph skewed to the right) or underexposed (entire graph skewed to the left), which will affect clarity of detail in the final exposure.<\/p>\n<p>In the photo below, as a fun test, I metered off the green grass and then adjusted the shutter speed to push the histogram graph to the right. The result &#8211; I lost detail in the sky and overexposed the photo slightly.\u00a0 A little post-production helped bring the color and details back.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1140\" src=\"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/52-Project-Histogram-Feb2016.jpg\" alt=\"52-Project-Histogram-Feb2016\" width=\"1275\" height=\"850\" srcset=\"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/52-Project-Histogram-Feb2016.jpg 1275w, http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/52-Project-Histogram-Feb2016-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/52-Project-Histogram-Feb2016-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/52-Project-Histogram-Feb2016-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1275px) 100vw, 1275px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Move on to the next photographer in the 52 Project blog circle, <a href=\"http:\/\/carolloceyphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/2\/5\/52-on-friday-exposure\">Carol Locey Photograpy <\/a>serving Greater Cincinnati, OH, and check out her use of the histogram.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually reference the histogram graph in post production, but the challenge this week was to use it in-production and judge exposure. In general, dark tones from your photo are weighted to the left on the histogram graph and lighter tones to the right. Although there is no such thing as a perfect histogram graph, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1136"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1136\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/spottynose.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}