To many of us, “contrast” is an afterthought — a slider in Photoshop or a setting in our cameras that has something to do with the relationship between the dark and light areas in our images. We use the slider without vision or purpose.
To Dean Collins, controlling and manipulating contrast was the heart and soul of what we, as photographers, do. Contrast is the tool we use to transform a two dimensional image (height and width) into one that has a third dimension — one that manifests depth, shape and texture.
The magic wand that takes us to this new dimension? Our lighting. …
