Use the histogram - Hover Flies Part II

garyt

After posting some over exposed picitures, I decided it's time to learn to use the histogram to help with exposure. Here are some hover flies I practiced on.

Lord Vetinari

Looks like it's working Gary- exposure looks good. Are you referring to the in camera histogram or the PS one ?
Brian V.

garyt

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Looks like it's working Gary- exposure looks good. Are you referring to the in camera histogram or the PS one ?
Brian V.

Brian, I've actually been using both. But I use the camera RGB to shoot and then compare it on the screen. To me they look a little dark on my screen, but they are within the histogram and I haven't blow out anything for a change. Your comment are appreciated.

GOLDENORFE

looking good Gary, like last one best, better composition and focus.
phil.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldenorfe/

Lord Vetinari

garyt wrote:

Brian, I've actually been using both. But I use the camera RGB to shoot and then compare it on the screen. To me they look a little dark on my screen, but they are within the histogram and I haven't blow out anything for a change. Your comment are appreciated.

Perhaps slghtly dark, but macros can be difficult because of the often large blocks of single tones with only a few highlights. I tend to change the exposure during RAW processing if necessary using my eye and the histogram and then use the levels histogram in PS for any minor adjustments.

Brian V.

garyt

Lord Vetinari wrote:

Perhaps slghtly dark, but macros can be difficult because of the often large blocks of single tones with only a few highlights. I tend to change the exposure during RAW processing if necessary using my eye and the histogram and then use the levels histogram in PS for any minor adjustments.

Brian V.

Thanks Brian for the comment. I'll try a adding a little more exposure to the raw images.