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Underexposure
As a result of too little exposure in the camera or at the enlargement stage.
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For me, underexposure without a deliberate reason for a specific camera or image is poor photographic craft.

UNDEREXPOSURE - An image is underexposed when the film receives too little light for proper exposure. Underexposure results in loss of detail in the subject's dark areas, which can be almost completely black and featureless.

Underexposure of image corners produced deliberately by shading or unintentionally by inappropriate equipment, such as unsuitable lens hood or badly designed lens. A common fault of wide-angle lenses, owing to reflection cut-off, etc.

Underexposure
Overexposure
We note that the above scene contains roughly three tonal regions with abrupt transitions at their edges-- therefore requiring a custom-made GND filter.

Underexposure.
Insufficient exposure of film or photographic paper to achieve the desired image.
cf. overexposure, thin.

Underexposure with the flash in the normal setting, though good exposure with the Slow-Sync mode. Strong warm color cast, though.

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Underexposure
A condition in which too little light reaches the film or camera sensor. In general digital handles underexposure better than negative film. Underexposed film will producing a thin negative, a dark slide, or a muddy-looking print.

Underexposure: The result of too little exposure in the camera or when making enlargements. It reduces density and contrast.
Uprating: Rating a film at a higher speed index than normal.

Underexposure. Exposing the film to less light than is needed to render the scene as the eye sees it. Results in a too dark photograph.
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Underexposure
An underexposed image will be too dark, shadow areas will lose detail.
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Underexposure
A picture that appears too dark because not enough light got to the imaging system.
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Underexposure
A circumstance where too little light reaches the film resulting in a thin negative, muddy looking print or a dark slide.
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Underexposure - A picture that appears too dark because insufficient light was delivered to the imaging system. Opposite of overexposure.

Underexposure
A condition in which too little light reaches the sensor, producing a dark or a muddy-looking image.
Unipod
Also refer as monopod. A one-legged support used to hold the camera steady. Also see "tripod".

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The result of too little light or too small an f-stop. See: Thin. Underexposure may also occur if you have a lazy agent.
Upstage
Away from the audience or camera.

Underexposure - result of too little exposure in the camera or at the enlargement stage.
Universal developer - name given to a number of developing solutions, usually MQ, indicating that they can be used for processing films and papers.

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Underexposure
A condition in which too little light reaches the film, producing a thin negative, a dark slide, or a muddy-looking print.
V
Viewfinder
See Camera, Viewfinder.

Exposure: Underexposure
This is a very common challenge, particularly when shooting waterfalls with large volumes of water where faster shutterspeeds are required or in those cases where small apertures are required to produce a large depth of field.

Underexpose, underexposure:
The provision of insufficient light to effect the correct exposure of a photosensitive material. The result is a print or transparency that is too dark and a negative that is too 'thin' (resulting in a dark print).

Underexposure produces low-contrast negatives that result in prints having a muddy gray background instead of a clear, crisp, white background.

Underexposure Exposing the film / image sensor to less light than is needed to render the scene as the eye sees it. Results in a too dark image. Unipolar An analog signal range that is always positive (through zero).

Underexposure is easiest seen in the final print when using colour negative film. Obvious characteristics include an overall lack of colour and contrast as well as an increase in graininess.

Excellent color, slight underexposure.
Macro
Like most Lumix models, the TZ1 has a dedicated macro mode, accessed via the main mode dial.

Underexposure (too little light) has the reverse effect. In enlarging, overexposure makes a print from a negative too dark and a print from a slide too light. Underexposure has the reverse effect.

Underexposure. If a scene looks dim and lacks shadow detail, increase the brightness. Just don't go too far or your footage will look grainy.
Flat color.

At best, a flat card is an approximation to a three-dimensional scene, and measurement of a test card may lead to underexposure unless adjustment is made.

There's no need to dial in any positive exposure compensation here - with no highlights to fool the camera's metering system into underexposure, the snow will automatically be rendered bright.

But rather than needing to be as grossly underexposed as I had to when comparing shadow detail, gradient rendering started to suffer at even modest underexposure.

Now your film is receiving half as much light as it requires (underexposure). To compensate for this you select a slower shutter speed of 1/60th of a second so it now stays open twice as long as before and passes twice as much light as before.
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Typically white overcast skies, snow or beach scenes will need compensating by +1 to +2 stops (EV) as the (overoptimistic) meter reading will lead to underexposure.

A Glossary of Photographic Terms: U-Z
Underexposure A condition in which too little light reaches the film, producing a thin negative, a dark slide, or a muddy-looking print.
Unipod A one-legged support used to hold the camera steady.

(1) the range of camera exposures, from underexposure to overexposure that will permit acceptable reproduction; ...

you'd have a two f-stop underexposure if you used the same exposure setting that you'd used for the picture of the bear when he was 10' away. A scene that required a lens setting of f/16 at infinity would require a lens setting of about f/8 at 1:1.

Light coming from behind the photo subject. Can cause underexposure of the main subject with auto exposure systems. Situation lending itself to the use of fill-flash and/or spot metering.
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The AF sensor coupling may help to reduce the underexposure risk in the image above because the selected AF point to a relatively dark spot (= different to the TTL flash metering result).

A technique in which the suggested film speed is deliberately exceeded, by setting a higher speed on the camera, so causing underexposure, and then balanced by overdevelopment. Also known as "pushing".

As a general rule, slide films can survive a little bit of underexposure better than overexposure. The opposite is true for negative or print film. Always try to error on the side of overexposure for print films.

To expose film at a higher film speed rating than normal, then to compensate in part for the resulting underexposure by giving greater development than normal.

Push Processing: The technique of over developing film to compensate for intentional underexposure by the photographer. Commonly used to gain faster shutter speeds or greater depth of field than normally exposed and processed film will permit.

For example, if you have flash as the main light and leave your SB-28DX on Matrix you will very often get too little flash output and be left with either useless underexposures or maybe some images you can save through hard work in Photoshop.

A technique used to increase contrast and film speed by underexposure and overdevelopment. Also known as uprating.
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Underexposure: The muddy, dark areas of a photograph due to too little light reaching the film.
White Balance: A function on the camera that compensates for different colors of light being emitted by different light sources.

Light
If unintended light strikes film before, during, or after the initial exposure it will create image problems. Generally this is more of a problem of overexposure than underexposure but it bears mentioning as a cause of film damage.

In photography, brightness is dependent upon correct exposure. Overexposures will be very bright but will have lost highlight density details. Underexposures will be very dense and show little brightness.

Colors also have a luminance value. A deep red color, for example, might have a luminance value that is darker than 18% gray and so will be rendered more accurately and more richly with an underexposure.

Underexposed film will have more dark spaces that are poorly defined. Many camera manuals will state the camera's exposure latitude, the range between underexposure and overexposure in which pictures will still turn out.

The first thing to remember is that your camera's built in flash is generally only effective to about 8 feet. Anything beyond that is out of range, which will most likely result in underexposure. So you have 4 basic options: ...

See also: Exposure, Light, Camera, Image, Photograph