How to read your histogram

One of the fundamentals of getting exposure right is understanding how to use your camera's histogram. 

Produced by Nathaniel Dodson of tutvid, this new video explains the findamentals of how a histogram works. In essence a histogram is a bar graph that displays the proportional tonal distribution of an image. And at a glance it shows you two things, where the bulk of your exposure lies, so you can see how much pixel information is contained in the blacks, shadows, mid-tones, highlights and whites, and whether you have lost any pixel information at the extreme ends of the graph - known as clipping. 

You can see more of Dodson's videos here.