Deliberately changing the exposure settings recommended by a light meter in order to obtain proper exposure. (Sometimes an exposure meter or light meter is “tricked” into providing settings that will [..]

Adding to or subtracting from the “correct” exposure time indicated by the camera's light meter, which results in a final exposure that is either lighter or darker than the recommended exposure t [..]

Settings used to modify the shutter speed and/or lens aperture recommended by the camera's light meter. Often used to produce special creative effects or to meet the scene requirements. Read arti [..]

You can lighten or darken the image by under or over exposing the image. (EV compensation).

In complex lighting situations, your camera's light-metering system may result in pictures that are too bright or too dark. Adjusting the exposure compensation setting allows you to make images b [..]

The ability to manually alter the camera's auto exposure setting for specific effects and subjects. Fill flash (or flash-on):

The act of modifying exposure from the optimal value selected by the camera, making photographs brighter or darker.

Modifying the shutter speed and/or lens aperture recommended by the camera's light meter in order to produce special creative effects or to meet special requirements.  

Depending on the subject's degree of reflectance or lighting condition, AE photography can easily produce exposures that are either over or under the optimum. To compensate for this type of error, plus or minus compensation can be added to correct the exposure, which is called exposure compensation.

Dial or buttons on a camera that allow the user to override the automatic exposure mode. Most cameras have +/-2 stops control that is enough to compensate in situations where the camera's system [..]

Found on relatively few point-and-shoots, this capability allows you to manually alter the autoexposure for specific effects and subjects.

A camera setting that allows photographers to over-ride the settings used by the camera to reduce or increase the overall exposure value. The control is indicated by a +/- icon, either on a button or [..]

Modifying the shutter speed and/or lens aperture recommended by the camera’s light meter in order to produce special creative effects or to meet special requirements.

Exposure Compensation is the ability to automatically adjust the calculated exposure, as indicated by a metering reading, when it might yield a less-than-optimal result and to compensate for the adverse elements.

Lighten or darken the image by overriding the exposure system. Also known as EV Compensation. f-stop

Settings used to modify the shutter speed and/or lens aperture recommended by the camera's light meter. Often used to produce special creative effects or to meet the scene requirements. Read arti [..]

The “correct” exposure that a camera’s light meter gives you is not always the exposure that the photographer would like to take. Exposure compensation is a camera function that allows the photographe [..]

Either overexposing or underexposing from the suggested exposure from the camera's light meter.