Hi, I’m working on a stylized project and have decided that locking Min/Max EV to 1 is a good way to control exposure and the look. Things look good, but I’m trying to understand now how to use a histogram to verify things.
I’m wondering if there is any type of tool (built in or add-on) that displays the type of histogram seen in Photoshop?
Or if not, is it accurate to understand the HDR (eye adapatation) histo in this context this way?
(This is from a very dark scene)
The white bar is your current exposure, dunno what you mean by “full white” and black? The curve represents the tonemapping curve, the blue bar is the exposure target, or where the exposure would need to be set to reach “middle gray” (iirc)
At your current exposure, with your current tonemapping curve, values above the question mark would be nearly clipped to “white” (assuming this is what you meant), values around where your blue bar is would be basically black. Note that this is not what the blue bar represents (see above), it just happens to be where your current tonemapping curve flattens out.
The HDR visualizer values are pre-tonemapping, after tonemapping you’d get a completely different histogram.
