The ABC of Photography – Clipping

Clipping occurs when the dark parts of an image become pure black or the light parts become pure white, so that image detail is lost in these areas. On a histogram, a clipped shadow or highlight is indicated by the graph being ‘cut off’ on the left-hand (shadows) or right-hand (highlights) side.

Sources:  Pixabay, Wikipedia, Susan Wingfield Lamar High School