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>>63384 Actually, less flippant response:
It's actually better to overexpose as much as possible rather than underexposing. That "As much as possible" is key, though.
See, a digital camera's sensor is a lot better at recording information from brighter sources than dark ones. When you underexpose, you lose some color information and you're a bit more likely to have noise in the underexposed areas. If you underexpose and brighten in post, you lose a lot of information in the shadows. On the other hand, if you overexpose and then darken, you don't lose information.
HOWEVER: This all goes to hell when your pixel gets to the brightest point the camera can deal with. The pixel will spike at 255 and you get nothing but whiteness, no details whatsoever. So you want to check the histogram (and preferably a color histogram, since it's possible for just one color to clip and "luminance" histograms usually only show you the green channel) after shooting and adjust appropriately so that the histogram's weighted towards the right without anything important getting clipped off into oblivion.
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