0 to make someone or something experience something too much, or for too long, risking harm: --
1 to give too much attention to someone or something in newspapers, on television, on social media, etc.: --
His parents and his team protected him from being overexposed, keeping him from doing interviews and turning down endorsement deals.
2 to give too much light to a piece of photographic film when taking a photograph: --
One downside to this method was that since the film was exposed twice, there was always the risk of accidentally overexposing the film and ruining the footage filmed earlier.
By the late 1950s, professional wrestling had lost its high ratings, and producers, realizing that they had overexposed it, soon dropped most wrestling shows from their lineups.
For example, the long exposures required at the time to create an image would properly expose the main subject, such as a building, but would completely overexpose the sky.
Prosthetic devices such as total hip hardware can also cause the selected ionization chamber to overexpose the image receptor.
Talk is that he was asked to re-create a sort of olden times look to the movie, by purposely overexposing the acting segment footage.
He made sure that his face appeared minimally in them to avoid overexposing his image.
Depending on the distance to the subject, using the full power of the flash may greatly overexpose the subject especially at close range.
Around edges, the blur region causes highlights to overexpose and shadows to underexpose.