Every time you snap a photograph with your digital camera, your camera generates an image histogram for it. That graph that you see when you are viewing your photographs either on your digital camera or on your computer. But what does it actually mean? It gives you valuable information about the tonal distribution of your image. Read the rest of this entry »
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Histograms are useful for photographers to quickly view what sort of tonal values are captured in any given photograph. They allow you to quickly determine if your photograph has mostly dark/light values or a smooth distribution of values. You can set the Pentax K-x to display a histogram over your image each time you take a photograph during your “instant review”. Here is how. Read the rest of this entry »
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