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- verb Present participle of
underexpose .
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Examples
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To avoid overexposing or underexposing the surroundings, before the fireworks starts, try several variations of shutter speed, ISO, and focal length.
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To avoid overexposing or underexposing the surroundings, before the fireworks starts, try several variations of shutter speed, ISO, and focal length.
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Many of these effects can be enhanced by deliberately underexposing and pushing film (to make the grain larger and more dense to create higher contrast) or pulling film to do the opposite.
What's an ISO? 2007
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Many of these effects can be enhanced by deliberately underexposing and pushing film (to make the grain larger and more dense to create higher contrast) or pulling film to do the opposite.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
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I can not help but agree with thanann, when i saw this photos "recently" read 2 months ago , i had not read 'Strobist' I didn't get why underexposing a background was 'cool'.
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For me this usually means underexposing the ambient by a stop or so.
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If I were underexposing the ambient by one stop in shutter priority to keep a constant 1/250th of a sec shutter speed I would juice the TTL flash by one stop to compensate for the overall "-1 stop" exposure compensation.
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Even if I am including a bright sky in the background, I'll use the shade of a building to drop my subject to near black when underexposing a stop for the sunny sky.
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Some photographers have been led to think that by underexposing they retain the distance, but they sacrifice the foreground; besides, it does not produce an orthochromatic effect.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 Various
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This is my 1st mid-range zoom and I'm noticing the 15-85 seems to be severely underexposing
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