One of the most important lessons I learned from watching other artists is how willing they are to 'turn the volume up to eleven'. Just to see what happens to the image. Naturally, you can back off from the extremes later if you decide it does not work. But if you never see the image break, or come close to failing, how do you know you have not missed something?
To me its like tuning an analog radio, when you're driving through west Texas and want to listen to some music. You roll the dial back and forth through the frequencies until you find an interesting channel, and when you have, you go back and forth to find the spot with the strongest signal and a tolerable amount of static.
