ABSTRACT
The creation of a high quality print is far easier with the help of an informative test strip. A few minutes of time can give the darkroom practitioner test results, revealing the right exposure and paper grade for a particular image. Additional test strips, made at potential problem areas of the image, can give us useful information to improve the print with dodging and burning techniques. An organized approach to test strips can replace an inefficient trial and error method, ultimately saving time and paper and yielding more information than any electronic analyzer.
