Sameexposing

Sameexposing is a term used in photography and videography to describe the practice of capturing multiple frames or shots with the same exposure settings and metadata across a sequence. The aim is to achieve uniform brightness, color balance, and tonal range across frames, facilitating post-processing tasks such as alignment, blending, or analysis, and ensuring comparability when images are stacked or compared side by side.

Etymology and scope: The word appears as a compound of "same exposure" and the act of exposing a shot, but it is not widely standardized. It has surfaced in online communities and workflow discussions in the 2010s and later, where practitioners discuss maintaining consistent exposure across a series of captures.

Definitions and applications: In still photography, sameexposing means keeping shutter speed, aperture, ISO, white balance, and exposure compensation constant across frames, even if lighting conditions change slightly. In video and time-lapse work, it refers to maintaining identical exposure parameters for every frame. In computational workflows, it helps ensure consistent histogram and metadata for batch processing and reliable pixel-level comparisons.

Relation to related concepts: It contrasts with exposure bracketing, where exposure varies to capture a wider dynamic range, and with exposure stacking that often uses identical exposures for the purpose of noise reduction or detail enhancement, but with emphasis on consistency across frames.

Criticism: The term is nonstandard; its exact definition varies, and some view it as a practical reminder of consistent technique rather than a distinct method.

See also: exposure, exposure bracketing, exposure compensation, white balance, HDR imaging, color grading.