How histograms can help you control key factors that affect exposure levels. Correct exposures are the first step towards usable image files and the histogram displays provided in most digital cameras ...

Histograms are often useful tools for analyzing digital data. To get reliable results from a histogram, though, you must collect large amounts of data, often with 100,000 to 1 million points. If you ...

You’ve almost certainly seen a histogram on your camera’s display at some point, but if you don’t take photography particularly seriously you might not know what it tells you. Well, you should—and ...

Combed Histograms The normal distribution of tones in a digital image produces a smooth histogram with every one of the 256 tonal levels occupied. In a correctly exposed image, the peak of the graph ...

Last week’s post, “A Histogram is NOT a Bar Chart ”, explained that bar charts were used for comparing categorical variables and that histograms were used to show the distributions of binned ...