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Raw & Post Processing, Printing => Adobe Lightroom Q&A => Topic started by: Walter Schulz on October 02, 2011, 09:15:14 pm

Title: Strange histogram issue
Post by: Walter Schulz on October 02, 2011, 09:15:14 pm

Hello!

Maybe someone is able to explain this behavior: Played around with some photos in LR (very pleasant and warm autumn day and a even better sunset) and the histogram seems to act rather odd. Everything looks quite normal reducing exposure (german: Belichtung). The "hill" slides gently to the left and the "peak" keeps its height ... until ... I cross a border and the "hill" losing half its height. Reducing exposure any further doesn't seem to affect the height. It keeps the reduced level..

LR 3.5 (64 bit)
Windows 7 Ultimate (64 bit)

TIA

Ciao, Walter

Title: Re: Strange histogram issue
Post by: madmanchan on October 03, 2011, 02:01:55 pm

Hi Walter, this is normal. Lr is just rescaling the vertical axis (up-down distance) of the histogram because there are many values bunched up on the right side (clipped or near-clipped values).