
252 THE EXTREMES
We encourage beginner photographers to learn to control the histogram
rst and then, later, to move on to curves and use those nondestructive
adjustment layers.
NEW PRINCIPLES
We have introduced very few new principles in this chapter. Instead, we
have talked mostly about basic photography and basic lighting (plus a few
bits of magic and chicanery).
White-on-white and black-on-black subjects do not require many
special techniques. ese subjects do, however, require the basics, applied
meticulously. is may be true of photography in general. Professional
development may not be so much a matter of learning new things, but ...