Exposure (photography)
amount of light captured by a camera / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Overexposed" redirects here. For the music album by Maroon 5, see Overexposed (album).
In photography, exposure is used to mean two things. Photograhic films or sensors have a certain senitivity. That means that a certain amount of light needs to be able to reach the film or sensor, before the image is correctly exposed. An exposure can also refer to a photo exposed that way.
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