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we've talked about using the Live View
and histogram functionality to visually
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gauger exposure and that is an amazing
tool is when the tools it when using a
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ton I'm gonna give you guys a few more
tips and another tool to use to help you
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gauge exposures but with a water backlit
we have a beautiful kind of backwater
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look we have a nice depth and everything
but we have strong highlights and
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because of that is going to be
impossible really to gauge whether these
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highlights are blown looking at just a
preview and even when we look at just
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the image histogram itself it's still be
difficult because that histogram and we
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might just be pushing a little bit
toward the edge and we're not going to
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see exactly what is blown out so I have
to tip for you now one is gonna be to
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adjust the LCD brightness and we're
gonna talk about why and how in just a
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second and tip number two is to always
always always use the in-camera
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highlight alert because it's simply too
difficult to know exactly what's blown
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what the highlight alerts gonna do it
it's going to blink the areas that are
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blown out in black so you can see
exactly what is blamed on the image now
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for the Nikon we can access the monitor
brightness by going down into the setup
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menu and we have a monitor brightness
now what I recommend that you do is you
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turn it all the way up generally is
Cameron come set a default setting its
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80 or they gonna come set at an auto
setting an auto is probably the worst of
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anything but even a default setting up
zero the problem is that when I walk
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outside to a bracing like this i really
can't see my LCD so my recommendation is
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leave the modern brian is on the
brightest setting or choose a brightness
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that works for you but don't leave it on
auto now let's go ahead and go back I
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wanna turn on my highlight color or at
least verify that it turned on so my
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Nikon I need to go back to the playback
2009 the playback menu we have playback
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display options by clicking into this
menu we have several different options
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and you can see it one of them is that
RGB histogram so we had the option to
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enable darden histogram in addition to
that standard luminosity the standard
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gray histogram as well but I have right
now the highlights turn on I want to
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make sure that that highlight alert is
turned on this is the alert so it's off
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let's go ahead and click over that's off
when I right click again to turn on and
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if you don't want any other options
available you can always turn off the
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different display options that don't
really apply to you but I would
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recommend the hilar and the art of
histogram is also awesome and shooting
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data is absolutely awesome in the
overview is awesome for me too so I can
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I call them so now we're gonna do is
adjust
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my camera settings were gonna take a
quick shot just for a test
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hey let's go ahead and grab an image ok
so playing so we get that preview and
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I'm gonna hit up on my deep at two so we
can get it back to the standard view and
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then you'll see that is gonna start
blinking now this is what I never would
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have been able to detect just by the
standard histogram when this dinner his
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current it would have looked like I
captured most of my total range but when
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I look at the highlight color it tells
me that a little bit of the peaks and
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highlights in the water are blown out
and from that I can make adjustments and
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fine tune my settings so what I know now
as I'm gonna go ahead and adjust my
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settings down to probably 100 of a
second army 1 641 648 let's take another
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shot we have a tiny bit blown but it's
looking much better I'm gonna go up one
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more step 2 110 take another shot
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and their ego that looks awesome we
basically retain all of our details I'm
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gonna go ahead and hit let's see him
play and let's look at the history as
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well use both these tools in conjunction
you can see that with the histogram I
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pushed my shadows to the left edge we
don't have any shadows clip have my
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highlights although against the writer
not major that little tip highlights
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isn't blown out in the water
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ok so again I'm zoom into these rocks
that close up of the water washing into
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the rocks and then wait for that perfect
wave and capture my shot my assignment
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for you all is to go out and use the
highlighter in conjunction with your
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histogram remember for your specific can
make and model be sure to check out your
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manual if you don't know how to access
or turn on the High Life Alert for this
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video I'm gonna get my shot and I'll see
you all next one