Overexposed means burnt out and too pale from too much light. An overexposed photograph, overexposed highlights, the shot was overexposed.
The damage is one-way: detail lost in blown highlights cannot be recovered, where shadows usually can be lifted — which is why photographers expose for the bright parts. Of a person, overexposed means seen too often in public.
1adjectiveoverexposedBurnt out and too pale from too much light.
“Half the holiday photos were overexposed, so the sky came out completely white.”
overexposed is a fault of exposure.
overexpose comes from over + expose.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA