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whites

whites

3.4
The very bright areas in a picture
  • noun
  • /waɪts/
  • Specialized
translation icon : blancos
  • They can't run on like wooden floors like okay, all right, the second photo set, it's very blown out as we like to say the whites are a little too hot in this photo.

Examples

  • OK, Pop Quiz HDR or High Dynamic Range is all about producing the brightest whites and the darkest blacks, right?

  • We are going to smooth skin tone highlights by decreasing our Highlights and Whites, while adding additional contrast by reducing our Shadows and Blacks.

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  • And it will produce like those bright white highlights.

  • You concentrate the white in the areas of the highlights.

  • This will just help make your eyes look more open and make the whites pop from afar.

  • When I remove the varnish from this little section, we can see that the whites are cooler, they're more blue than they are warm.

  • So it handles the highlights pretty well, so the white parts don't look overexposed.

  • For the four people who have HDR displays, you got a more accurate and realistic range of whites and blacks as well as a wider range of colors.

  • We've got orange tones, whites, purple, red, yellows, and then we end up with creams, which I should probably just move into the white category.

  • In photography, properly adjusting the exposure can help the whites appear brighter and more vibrant.

Antonyms

544 1.0

A dark shape on the ground made when something blocks light

lowlights
  • Specialized
5.2

Dark areas of a picture with very little light

Compounds

dress whites
  • Specialized
1 6.0

Formal white uniforms people in the military wear for ceremonies

How Bright

whites
  • Specialized
3.4
highlight
32 3.4
lowlights
  • Specialized
5.2
black
159 1.0

Surface Forms

white singular
whites plural

Morphology

whites = white (transparent) = white + s

The plural denotes multiple areas or tones that are white; the morphological relation is regular and predictable.

Etymology

Whites in photography comes from the color white, meaning 'bright' or 'light', and it names the brightest parts of an image. That's why photographers adjust the whites to control the light areas of a photo.