Working with the camera histogram

Abba Shapiro: Now, if you don't have a Light Meter you can actually just use the Camera and the…Histogram to make sure your lighting is right.…Now, I know we're pretty close, because we did use the Light Meter earlier, but let's…go ahead and take a test shot and see exactly how our lights are going to look.…Now I have this set up for f8, 1/25th of a second.…I'm completely in manual mode, you don't want to be in any kind of an automatic mode, because…it will try to compensate for your light.…So we set it up, so f8, 1/25th of a second, 100 ISO is exactly what we want to use to light our model.…

We'll take a quick test shot, and let's take a look at that, that's pretty good.…Now, I have two things that I want to tell you about that I don't want you to be alarmed.…First is a little piece of black flashing right here on the side of her face.…I've Enabled a Highlight in my menu.…If I go there, there's something called the Highlight alert, and that just tells me that…that part of the image is a little bit high.…