"Wilba" wrote in message
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David J Taylor wrote:
Wilba wrote:

Worth a look for a discussion of 13 images and their histograms -
http://www.juzaphoto.com/eng/article..._histogram.htm

Thanks for that pointer. I agree with most of their comments, with the
possible exception of:


http://www.juzaphoto.com/shared_file...gram/exp-2.jpg

which I would not describe as "a completely overexposed photo" -
depending on what was in the sky area.

English is a second language for the author of that page, so it's
possible that the words come out subtly different to what he intended.

Agreed.

Just looking at most of these pictures is enough to tell the
experienced photographer whether or not they are correctly exposed -
there's no
need to view the histogram to confirm what your eyes tell you.

Yeah - if you can view them under good conditions.

... otherwise it's just the composition you can check. If in doubt, the
histogram provides valuable extra information.

David