Primary Color Correction: Color Control Primer - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 96

Fig. 3.31 The image has lots of black and perfectly exposed whites and few midtones. Image courtesy
Artbeats' LifeStyles Mixed Cuts collection (LM119).
Fig. 3.32 Final Cut Pro's internal waveform monitor displaying the same clip.
sense of clipping from histograms by looking out for large, sharp “cliffs”
in the data at either end of the histogram. Spikes aren't a bad thing in a
histogram as long as they have a steady rise in the shape. Clipping is seen
as a sharp vertical climb or drop at either end of the histogram. The his-
togram of the image in question does show a sharp spike in the deepest