https://pho.tography.org/tags/histogram/ Recent content in histogram on pho.tography.org Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pho.tography.org/expose-to-the-right-r5-mark-ii-and-the-rf-24-70mm-f/2.8l-is-usm/ Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://pho.tography.org/expose-to-the-right-r5-mark-ii-and-the-rf-24-70mm-f/2.8l-is-usm/ Expose to the right — ETTR — is the practice of increasing exposure until the histogram is as far right as possible without clipping important highlights. It exploits the mathematical distribution of data in a RAW file: in a 14-bit file, the brightest stop of light receives half of all the available tonal values. Underexposing by one stop discards half the sensor’s information into the shadow region, where noise lives.