10 years later - lower contrast

[Loren Sattler]

We'd always warn our students to build up contrast slowly when printing an image for the first time. If we start out with high contrast, we have a tendency to over-do it, so to speak, and get trapped by the visual impact of the contrast -- whether the image needs it or not.

Vaughn, Howard Bond taught the same principal in his workshops. It is much easier emotionally to increase the contrast a grade rather than have to back off a contrast grade.