Histogram and Spot Metering
Lesson 4 from: How to Capture and Edit Landscapes in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoshopJared Platt
Histogram and Spot Metering
Lesson 4 from: How to Capture and Edit Landscapes in Adobe Lightroom and PhotoshopJared Platt
Lesson Info
4. Histogram and Spot Metering
Lessons
Introduction
01:02 2Finding the Light
01:12 3Crafting Composition
00:49 4Histogram and Spot Metering
01:50 5ISO, F-Stop, and Shutter Speed
02:49 6Taking the Shot
02:12 7Capturing an HDR Image
02:23 8Shooting in Manual Mode Recap
01:18Introduction to Lightroom:
00:51 10Lightroom: Importing Albums and Organization
01:53 11Lightroom: Sorting and Ranking Images
01:11 12Lightroom: Auto Adjustments
01:03 13Lightroom: Color Profiles
01:17 14Lightroom: Shadows, Colors, and Luminance
01:47 15Lightroom: Gradients
01:21 16Lightroom: Brush Tool
00:56 17Lightroom: Copy and Paste Settings
01:07 18Lightroom: Contrast, Exposure and Saturation
01:00 19Lightroom: Healing Brush to Remove Objects
03:39 20Lightroom: Export and Share
00:46 21Photoshop: Content Aware Fill to Remove Objects
03:32 22Photoshop: Stamp Tool
01:11 23Photoshop: Dodge and Burn
02:07 24Photoshop: Basic Adjustments
01:02 25Photoshop: Adding Clouds
01:54 26Photoshop: Quick Selection Tool
02:36 27Photoshop: Sharing your Images
00:34Lesson Info
Histogram and Spot Metering
So as the sun is rising, you can see that it's cresting on my cactus. It's lighting up my rocks in front of me. You're always gonna find that you have a more interesting and beautiful texture to your photograph if the shadows are coming towards you and the highlights are kind of on the back side or the smallest portion of the photograph. So what I'm doing here is I'm looking at the photograph and I'm trying to get the correct exposure as the sun comes up, and the thing that I'm paying attention to is the histogram. You always want to make sure that your histogram is available. You can see that I've got a histogram here on my screen itself. A histogram is simply a graph that shows me how many pixels on my image sensor are being exposed as a highlight and how many are exposed as a shadow. So there's no perfect histogram. It should look exactly like your photo. If it's dark, you should see most of the piles of the graph over on the left-hand side. If it's a bright photograph, you should s...
ee most of the piles of data over on the right-hand side. If you turn your camera on spot metering mode, you can then take the little circle that's in the very middle of the viewfinder. It's also usually on the back of your screen, as well. And point at individual tones, shadows, highlights, and you can register whether or not they are going to over or underexpose. Simply by looking at the meter inside of my viewfinder, I can see the needle go back and forth, and if it doesn't go all the way off of my graph, I'm fine. And if I point at a shadow and it doesn't go all the way off the other side of the graph, then I'm fine.
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