PhotoPlus : The Canon Magazine

HOW IT WORKS ADJUST TONAL LEVELS

01 HELPFUL HISTOGRAM

We can see from the photo’s original histogram that it is underexposed. The graph is clumped towards the shadows at the left and the midtones in the middle. There’s no strong highlight information at the right. This is a classic example of an underexposed shot’s histogram.

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