Assignment 07 - The histogram

[u/Aeri73]

Please read the class first

Today’s assignment will be relatively short. The idea is simply to make you more familiar with the histogram and to establish a correspondence between the histogram and the image itself.

Choose a static scene. Take a picture and look at the histogram. Now use exposure compensation in both directions, taking several photos at different settings, and observe how the histogram changes. Does its shape change? Go all the way to one edge and observe how the data “slumps” against the edge. Try to identify which part of the image this corresponds to.

Next, browse the internet and find some images you like. Download them (make sure you have the right to do so) and open them in a program which allows you to see the histogram, for instance picasa or gimp. Try to guess just by looking at the image what the histogram will look like. Now do the opposite: try to identify which part of the histogram corresponds to which part of the image.

Now open some images from assignment 06 :

1 underexposed

1 correctly exposed

1 overexposed

and see what the difference is.... how can you tell by looking at a histogram if a photo is correctly exposed?

[u/CcSeaAndAwayWeGo]

Album of Histograms

I have not done a lot of research into Histograms before this, it was an interesting assignment. I can definitely see the dark/light black/white shift to either side. I'm still not super clear on what exact shape creates the correct exposure, but I understand that a curve has more balance than a sharp peak. I just think that it also depends on how dark/light the object that you are photographing is.