How to Read (and Use) Histograms for Beautiful Exposures

This article was updated in December 2023 with contributions from Darlene Hildebrandt, Anne McKinnell, Herb Paynter, Rick Berk, Simon Ringsmuth, and Darren Rowse. Are you struggling to understand how histograms in photography work? Do you want to know how to read a histogram so you can capture consistently detailed exposures? Before digital photography, you had … Continue reading How to Read (and Use) Histograms for Beautiful Exposures