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contrasty

a. (context photography English) Having great contrast between light and dark areas (of a subject or photograph)

WordNet
contrasty

adj. having sharp differences between black and white [ant: flat]

Usage examples of "contrasty".

Shadows everywhere, the contrasty black and white, the unanticipated violence.

The image was generally of long wormlike strips of light and often needed a little extra development to get a good contrasty image that made plotting the results that much easier.

It was rather grainy and extremely contrasty, and the image itself was a bit blurred.

Ops, on the other hand, is a multilevel set with a lot of cramped areas and very contrasty lighting.