I have to say again that a room for "featured Articles" is needed here.
You newest article Michael is fabulous. The one with T. Knoll and dynamic range.
I will embarrass myself, but until I read your article on reading Histograms, I thought the histogram worked like a sound meter. If you hit the top, you are distorting the sound.
Now, I come to realize it is in fact from left to right. And according to your article, the right side of the histogram is preferred.
One question nags in my mind. in your picture of the moon on the Understanding Histograms article or lesson, when the histogram hits the top very hard like the moon shot does, I still cringe thinking I am blowing stuff out of the picture. Then people talk about the red, green, and blue part of the histogram hitting the top.
What exactly happens when the histogram readings hit the top (ceiling) of the histogram? Is it blown? Do people who show a red, green, or blue line hitting the top of the histogram and stating the "reds have been blown" really not saying the truth?
A blown histogram is one going off the right side correct? Is there any other way to say a histogram is blown? I ask this because it seems there are people out there who think like I did and when you hit the top of it you are blowing out the picture. This is wrong thinking correct?
Hope I made myself clear.
Regards,
Pete
Peter Gregg