Contact Sheets

• A contact sheet is a piece of photographic paper on to which several or all of the negatives on a film have been contact-printed.
• We use contact sheets to view multiple photos at once and later use it to narrow down the images to find the ones that will be used.
• We make contact sheets by:
  • Uploading the images to bridge where they can then be transferred to photoshop to be arranged into orderly rows.
  • The file containing all the images can then be saved as a JPEG file and be uploaded here on the blog.

White Balance

• White balance is the process that takes place in cameras in which unrealistic colour casts are removed, so objects that appear white in real life are rendered white in the photo.
• When using white balance, cameras have to take into account the ‘colour temperature’ of the light source, so white balance is needed when the light source is warm or cold.
• White balance can be controlled using either the kelvin scale or using preset options. On the kelvin scale, lower results in a colder colour and higher results in a warmer colour as shown below.