light-struck

American  

[lahyt-struhk] / ˈlaɪtˌstrʌk /

adjective

Photography.

1. (of a film or the like) damaged by accidental exposure to light.

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Etymology

Origin of light-struck

First recorded in 1880–85

Example Sentences

There’s a stunning group of watercolors, seemingly breathed onto the paper, by Joseph Mallord William Turner, fragile etchings by Whistler and dazzling, light-struck waterside scenes by Sargent.

From The Wall Street Journal

The designs were also a provocation — a celebration of ugliness or at least, as they saw it, “almost a rejection” of traditional ideas about beauty, said Mr. Chen, as he and Mr. Williams led a tour of their firm’s sprawling, light-struck new studio in the South Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn on a recent afternoon.

From New York Times

See, I cannot even name them, although one of them is looking out through my eyes right now, one of them is writing all this down with light-struck fingers.

From New York Times

His prismatic color works and photograms of light-struck liquids were once regarded as the products of a quirky outsider.

From The New Yorker

In the distance, Europeans and Indians gather amicably on the shore of a calm, light-struck lake.

From New York Times