The overall brightness of an image, from shadows to highlights.
Exposure refers to how light or dark an image is. Correct exposure preserves detail in both shadows and highlights; overexposed footage loses highlight detail (clipping) and underexposed footage loses shadow detail and gains noise. Editors balance exposure in correction, but it is best captured well in camera.
Color correction fixes what's broken; color grading makes it beautiful — and understanding which is which changes how you approach every project.
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