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Exposure - Over and under exposing

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Exposing for a photo is as important as framing it right, composing it and being creative among other things. We all use decent intelligent devices in the form of digital cameras. smartphones and exposure meters for the more professionals. Those devices often tell us what the right exposure is. But what if the photo taken at such exposure What does exposure really mean? According to the well trusted source of  Wikipedia In  photography ,  exposure  is the amount of light per unit area (the image plane  illuminance  times the exposure time) reaching a  photographic film  or electronic  image sensor , as determined by shutter speed, lens  aperture  and scene  luminance . Exposure is measured in  lux   seconds , and can be computed from  exposure value  (EV) and scene luminance in a specified region. In photographic jargon,  an exposure  generally refers to a single  shutter cycle . For ...