1. A method comprising: computing an overall image exposure score for an image, the overall exposure score being based on a clipped pixel score and a tonal distribution score; determining one or more face regions in the image; computing a face region exposure score for each face region, the face region exposure score including a clipped pixel score and a face region tonal distribution score; adjusting the overall image exposure score and each face region exposure score according to a penalty value; combining the overall image exposure score and each face region exposure score to generate an exposure quality score for the image; and applying one or more of an overall exposure correction and an independent correction for each face region.