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to underexpose
[VERB] MAIN VERB
1
to give too little light to photographic film or material, resulting in an image that is too dark
antonyms : overexpose
Examples
1. Well, in reality, I'm underexposing it, but the most important thing is that I'm exposing for the highlights.
2. In low light, Apple isn't afraid of underexposing the blacks, whereas Samsung and Google will bring them up.
3. The way I'm shooting this, I'm underexposing quite a bit.
4. So knowing that, that all this dark area would fool the camera's meter into thinking the scene has all this dark in it and no white, I have to underexpose a little in camera.
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