Day 17: Using the RGB Histogram

A couple of days ago, I joined a new photography forum (Clickin' Moms) that I just LOVE.  I was a little unsure about it at first because it's a private board and has an annual fee.  However, in just the past 48 hours of being a member, I have learned so much that it is already worth every penny.  Today, I thought that I would work on something I had learned on this awesome forum.  The Histogram, and more specifically the sRGB part of the histogram.  As it turns out I may get a good exposure most of the time according the the luminosity histogram (which is really as far as my knowledge went until two days ago), but I would be clipping the colors (mostly red).  I used Jackson's sippy, because, let's face it, the kid moves too much for me to use him. Plus, this cup has a lot of red so I knew that I would have to work a bit harder to not clip the reds.  I used a custom WB as that makes a huge difference when trying to keep from clipping colors.

SOOC 50mm f/2.0, ss 1/50, ISO 800

According to the histogram, I could have upped the exposure a bit on this.  However, according the the sRGB histo, if I had I would have clipped, or overexposed, the reds.

I honestly can't wait to learn more!