Histogram Info

These are most of the links I went through and thought might be of interest to others.

You can re-read the presentation, Histograms.

Histogram Information

Ken Rockwell’s Histogram how too’s.
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/histograms.htm
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/yrgb.htm

DPReview’s Histogram explanation.
http://www.dpreview.com/glossary/digital-imaging/histogram

Digital Camera World’s Histogram explanation.
http://www.digitalcameraworld.com/2013/06/27/histogram-photography-cheat-sheets-for-achieving-perfect-exposure/

A Practical Guide to Interpreting RGB Histograms.
http://www.sphoto.com/techinfo/histograms/histograms.htm

Brightness histogram.
http://www.juzaphoto.com/article.php?l=en&article=2

Nikon’s How to use your camera’s Histogram.
http://www.nikonusa.com/en/Learn-And-Explore/Article/fvicbgac/learning-how-to-use-your-camera-s-histogram.html

Luminous Landscape’s Understanding Historgrams.
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/understanding-histograms.shtml

Digital Photography School’s how to read and use histograms.
http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-read-and-use-histograms/

Pushing the histogram to the right – “Exposure and Metering.”
http://davidduchemin.com/2009/08/exposure-and-metering/

Expose to the right is a bunch of bull
http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2011/10/expose-to-the-right-is-a-bunch-of-bull.html

Luminous landscape’s 2003 explanation of Exposing to the right
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/expose-right.shtml

Darwin Wigget’s Expose Right.
http://www.oopoomoo.com/tab/expose-to-the-right/

Cambridge in Colour’s Camera histograms: tones & contrast.
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials/histograms1.htm

Great explanation of what the “bits” mean
http://laurashoe.com/2011/08/09/8-versus-16-bit-what-does-it-really-mean/

CMOS Image Sensor Integrated Circuit Architecture image.
http://www.fotos.docoer-dig.de/Bildsensoren.htm

Sensor’s CMOS sensor image.
http://gmpphoto.blogspot.ca/2014/11/why-leica-is-staying-at-375mp-for-s.html

Pixel diagram image.
http://petapixel.com/2013/02/12/what-a-dslrs-cmos-sensor-looks-like-under-a-microscope/

10x microscopic view of CMOS sensor.
https://landingfield.wordpress.com/2013/02/06/peeping-into-pixel-a-micrograph-of-cmos-sensor/

Histogram over image examples.
http://vclick.photography/for-beginners/learning-exposure/

Video’s on Histograms

Using the histogram for night time photography. (15:00)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXK6ena5Fk8

How to read your histogram. (4:23)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZXijSwADkE

Your Camera’s Histogram: Explained. (4:57)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIbcS6Qkel8

MichaelTheMentor’s short explanation of the histogram. (3:44)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3yiz1sBKLc

Matt Granger explaining histagram. (7:36)

Note that his advice is opposite of Darwin Wigget’s!

General Videos

How a pixel gets its color. (6:37)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-stCNB8jT8

A biginners guide to camera sensors and pixels. (3:10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ADepqkpf5g

CMOS Sensors.
http://www.learntouseacamera.com/cmos-censors/

Fantastic video by Canon on how a CMOS sensor works. (4:07)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ4si1Nsyzw

How a CMOS Sensor works. (1:10)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEVEGVV4EHk