Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To expose too long or too much.
- transitive verb To expose (a photographic film or plate) too long or with too much light.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In photography and radiography, to expose too long to light or other radiation. See
over-exposure .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Photog.) To expose excessively
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
expose excessively. - verb Of a famous person, to provide excessive
publicity ,publication orreporting regarding that person. - verb photography To expose of
film tolight during thedevelopment process for a longer time than is required to accurately produce the image.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb expose to too much light
- verb expose excessively
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Examples
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I had experience of fog previously in outdoor shots and had a good idea how to get rid of it so, decided to go with flash but also I had to 'overexpose' by almost a full stop to help during PP, otherwise I wouldn't get rid of the mist in the images.
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To get the correct exposure you need to set the camera manually to overexpose.
Archive 2009-03-01 AYDIN 2009
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The shotgun method of reponses by the GOP is getting overexpose. 8 years ago we did not have quick reaction of twitering, e-mail, blogs and web news.
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So when we sit in our convoys, try as much as possible not to overexpose yourself, alright?
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The light from a spotlight is focused, so normally the camera will overexpose the centre part of the image because of all the black in the frame.
Heinrich van den Berg: Photo Tip: Spotlight on Spots Heinrich van den Berg 2011
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The only thing she is going to do is overexpose herself and become a more laughable liability in the process.
Johnston: Palin wanted to take the money, 'forget everything else' 2009
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Because the light itself is the subject, it's common for automatic cameras to underexpose these images for tight shots and overexpose for loose shots.
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Because these items are typically spotlighted in a dark environment, it's common for automatic cameras to overexpose these images.
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Either you expose for the moon correctly and underexpose for the stars, or you expose the stars correctly and overexpose the moon.
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To make snow look whiter, and avoid a gray tinge, overexpose by raising the EV (exposure value) setting by a half-step or one step.
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