Evaluating and correcting highlights in a landscape

In this movie, I'd like to take a look at,…evaluate, and then adjust to correct a typical landscape image.…Now, some of the images we looked at have some very obvious problems with them.…Low cast images, low contrast images, images with really obvious color casts.…There's a lot of images, such as this one, that don't have any major flaws in them.…Composition is okay, the color looks okay.…And when you look at it without comparing it…to something else you might say oh, not too much…I can do to improve that.…But if we look at the histograms, the histograms…are going to tell us if that's true or not.…

So let's do that.…Let's evaluate this image based upon what we see in the histogram.…First we'll look at the histogram as an RGB to just look at the tonal value.…And we look at the distribution of tonal value, we…see right off the bat, a very simple evaluation of this…says, hey, there's all sorts of kind of flat line data…here, where there is actually no image data in the image.…It's noise data. So we can see that.…