Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or producing sharp contrasts between light and dark areas in photography.
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- adjective photography Having great
contrast betweenlight anddark areas (of a subject or photograph)
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- adjective having sharp differences between black and white
Etymologies
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Examples
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"contrasty" at times, if you know what we mean, but overall, it steals the show.
Boy Genius Report 2010
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The start image is all important to what you will actually get, it needs to be a contrasty 8 bit image.
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The paintings are more hard-edge and contrasty, and the colors and values are incorrect.
Daniel Grant: Debate: Must 'Plein Air' Be Defined? Daniel Grant 2010
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It's hard to describe the look it gives, sort of a glamor, glow, contrasty looking thing.
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The paintings are more hard-edge and contrasty, and the colors and values are incorrect.
Daniel Grant: Debate: Must 'Plein Air' Be Defined? Daniel Grant 2010
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Probably also the dark, high contrasty black shadows and costume design.
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I'm curious to see some shots in daylight with contrasty scenes to see how good the dynamic range is and how it copes with skintones in bright sunshine.
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The copy of it that slid out was a contrasty translation of the original, all the gentle blue and yellow turned into black and white.
The Legacy Kirsten Tranter 2010
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Blu-Ray gives me stunningly sharp, clean and contrasty 1080p images with superb sound.
Filmstalker: 3D television arrives in the UK, but do you want it? 2010
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So they all said, ‘He likes it contrasty’—contrasty!
Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010
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