Why Learning How to Read a Histogram Can Improve Your Photography

If you've spent any time playing around with the display on your digital camera's rear screen, you've most likely seen what resembles a (sometimes multicolored) line graph. You'll likely have seen something similar when editing your images in Capture One or Lightroom as well. This graph is called a histogram. Although it may look like something you had to learn in statistics class, histograms are actually very useful for photographers. While most human eyes can detect a dynamic range of roughly ...