Oh, shooting. Oh, shooting. Oh, shooting. Oh, shooting. Hello, YouTube and welcome to our second episode. We've got plenty to show you guys today. Today we're here in Joshua Tree, California. And it's beautiful out here as you can see behind me. We've got the Gloovy Joshua trees. We're going to be taking some wonderful landscape shots today. Today we're going to learn how to use our histogram. And we're going to learn how to use our metering modes on our camera. So if you are new to that or have no clue what I'm talking about, don't worry, we're going to show you how to use that. You've become pros in no time. Today I'm going to be shooting with my 70 again. I switched out my lenses today. We will be shooting with a 24 to 70. I may switch to a wide angle lens. It depends on where we're at and what we're shooting. So today we're going to learn. We're going to apply everything that we learned last time in our last episode. And we're going to include today our histogram and metering mode. Those are essential to exposing, getting proper exposures for all of your shots. So grab your cameras and let's go ahead and start shooting. Okay so we're going to learn about our histogram today. It's one of the fourth elements that is needed to take great photos, properly exposed photos should I say. You have your ISO, your shutter speed, and your aperture. And your fourth one is your histogram. A lot of people will say, you need your histogram to expose properly. Other people will like, so long as you do those three you'll be fine. I'd like to reference my histogram to make sure I got good lighting. And that I'm not overexposed or I'm not under exposed. So that histogram is on the back of your camera. At one point another you probably run across it by accident or on purpose and thought to yourself, maybe I'll use this, maybe I'll never will. You probably discarded. Well it kind of looks like this right here. So that is your histogram. What your histogram does, it shows you if you've got too much darks, too much lights, all those things. So let's talk about that for a second. Okay, so let's talk about your histogram and what it is. Your histogram is raw light data in the form of a graph, which tells you about your blacks, shadows, midtones, highlights, and whites. It is also responsible for telling you if you've lost data due to overexposing or under exposing your images. A couple of things to remember when using your histogram. The left end points tell you about how much contrast is in your image. Midpoint is all your midtones and the right side tells you about your exposure. I've got a cave behind me, which is perfect. It's got a lot of darks and on top you have the rocks in the sky, which creates a lot of whites. So we will overexpose and under expose our photos just to see how our histogram moves all the way from the left to the right. Okay, let's take a couple shots. I want you guys to remember that when using your histogram, it is only a tool in not a limit on your creativity. The name of the game here normally is to keep the graph between the two end points. As if you go over those end points then you lose your data that you can otherwise obtain or get back during post-production. This is also known as clipping. So we finally made it to the top of this rock here in Joshua Tree, California. It is absolutely gorgeous out here. If you guys live in California, any of my subscribers come and visit this place. It's fantastic to take pictures. And if you're visiting overseas, you ever come over here, take a visit here. You won't regret it. It's beautiful out here. We're really at the edge of this rock here. If you can poke your head down there and check it out. So yeah, it's a little creepy being up here. So I'm a little scared of heights. I'm just going to get what you call it. My phobia being up to high. Anyway, we're going to talk about our final lesson for today. And that is our metering modes. We have four metering modes to choose from. Your evaluative metering is everything. It takes into consideration all the darks and shadows on your camera. Does all the calculations itself to determine what is the best exposure? You also have your partial metering, which is your partial metering only takes up a certain percentage of your image in the center. And it'll only calculate what's in the middle there. So it won't consider everything else just what's in the certain radius. And I believe that's only 9% of your image that it will take into consideration when giving you a proper exposure. Then you have your spot metering, which only takes up 3% of your image and will concentrate on a certain spot of your picture, wherever you're pointing the camera, and will give priority to that center part, wherever your camera's focused on, and focus on that. Then finally, you have your center-weighted metering. Your center-weighted metering takes into consideration some of the background and some of the foreground if you're shooting your subject. The ones that I use are partial and spot metering. I don't use too much of a valid metering. Maybe on days like this, I didn't use it today, but you could use your evaluative metering mode on landscape shots. It just depends on what kind of shot you get. The more novice landscape photographers, they probably don't use too much of the partial metering. They may use the evaluative metering, but in my case, I don't use it that much. I hope you guys learned a lot from these tutorials, and I hope that you guys learned what metering mode is and what your histogram does. If you have any more questions, please email me. If you haven't subscribed, please subscribe. If you need to go back and repeat this video, please do so. I know sometimes it can be a lot to learn the first time, and we also have the last episode that we filmed with IURISO, your aperture, and your shutter. So make sure you guys take into consideration everything that we learned back then, and apply it to what I'm showing you today. So if you have any questions, like I said, email me, get back to me, until then, thank you guys, have a wonderful week, and we'll see you next episode.