@jamesstaddon might have already covered this in the Critique, but I’ll post it anyway for future reference. 🙂
When I refer to highlights being “clipped” I’m talking about the far right side of the histogram. See the screenshot below… The red boxes are showing where you should look for clipping in the shadows and highlights. In this case, the highlights and the shadows are clipped. (Look at the little triangles in the upper right/left corners of the histogram, they light up when something is clipping)
When you look all the way to the right of the histogram, it doesn’t look like there’s much data there, but the little triangle is what you need to look at. If it’s lit up, there’s clipping going on. The color of the little triangle indicates the channel being clipped, I think. For further explanation, see my RawTherapee tutorial, where I go into a little more detail about the histogram, and how we should edit our photos based on what we see there. Obviously the video is using software other than Lightroom, but the principles of editing are the same, regardless of the software we use to do so. If you want to learn more about histograms, check out this artice: https://photographylife.com/understanding-histograms-in-photography (I think it’s clean, but as always, when you’re on the internet be careful. I use an adblocker, so I don’t necessarily see what you will see.)
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