An object of the present invention is to provide an imaging apparatus, an imaging method, and a program that can leave information related to gradations on a high brightness side and a low brightness side as far as possible even in a case where a scene has a wide dynamic range and a histogram of a captured image is biased. An imaging apparatus (10) includes an exposure setting unit (101), an image acquisition unit, a brightness information acquisition unit (103), a count unit that counts each of the number of darkened pixels, the number of low brightness pixels, the number of washed out pixels, and the number of high brightness pixels, a calculation unit that calculates a first ratio between the number of darkened pixels and the number of low brightness pixels and a second ratio between the number of washed out pixels and the number of high brightness pixels, and an exposure adjustment unit that adjusts a first exposure to a second exposure based on the first ratio and the second ratio calculated by the calculation unit.