brett8883
Well-Known Member
I’m measuring it with my eyes. Very obvious blown highlights. Badly. You can only rely on the histogram when ironing the original unprocessed file in Lightroom and using the appropriate camera profile.
You should use the histogram in every stage of the digital film or photo making process. It measures light and color and is independent of the settings on your screen when editing or the sun shining on your device while flying or your sleepy eyes. The histogram never lies.
Btw when you open a raw file in Lightroom what you are looking at is a processed jpeg preview. You can’t see a raw file because it’s not a picture and can’t be displayed on a screen because it doesn’t have pixels. The process and technique for editing a raw file is no different from editing a jpeg. The way Lightroom process it is different but for you it’s exactly the same.
That’s why I think it’s kinda funny when people say they don’t knows how to edit a raw file because if you know how to edit a jpeg you know how to edit a raw file.