Example Sentences

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The problem: “Because I’m underexposing the image, the actors’ faces get quite dark, so you need to shine really bright lights on Gary and Amanda’s faces.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 15, 2021

By underexposing his shots, he made the colors became more saturated.

From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2017

You can make the case that someone like Alex Webb was underexposing Kodachrome 20 years ago, printing Cibachromes from it and getting vibrant colors.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2010

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.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various