What are contact sheets?
– Contact sheets are a tool that dates back to the days of shooting on film, showing the whole roll of film on one sheet of photographic paper, to help the photographer select which images to print.
– They are now outdated as most photographers use digital camera.
Why are they important?
– You can quickly scan a series of images to find the good photos or the ones chosen to be enlarged. instead of wasting materials one bad ones
Contact sheets are a way for photographers to show proof of their work to clients. They consist of a sheet showing individual photographs with name or numbers of the image. They do this so it is easier to identify which photographs the client wants to produce.
This series of photos is based around waiting and covid 19. I took the photos whilst on holiday in Tenerife where wearing a mask outside is mandatory and I found it interesting how people went about their daily tasks wearing a mask which is why I chose to have my photos as people waiting wearing masks. All photos are taken without the knowledge of my subjects so they are all natural which I liked as it looked less forced than it would if I have if I had made the subjects pose for me. I chose these 3 photos as I feel like they reflected my experience the best. The black and white photos show the discomfort of traveling during coronavirus while the coloured photo shows a balance between the discomfort and the beauty of tenerife.
I decided on the middle image as my final photo as I felt the colours were really beautiful and bright and contrasted really well with the grimness of the coronavirus situation. The photo was taken in a harbour in playa de las galletas and is of my sister hiding in the shade. As she was unaware of the the photo being taken, her facial expressions are dull and uninterested which I think makes the photo more poignant .
Next time I do this I will try to take more photos of the same image so that I have more choice finding the best photos. It was hard to do that this time as no one was posing. I took inspiration from artists like Dorethea Lange.
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 as evidence of a photo shoot. They are essential as they help organise photos and make it easier to decide which ones to use.
This is the start of a contact sheet of my dog which should be 36 images. Some of the photos have been edited and cropped. Narrowing it down, the bottom left and right photos as well as the top middle are my favourites and should be circled.
Albert’s photography is very repetitive and unique as he had a fascination in the light and dark features of nature and man made objects. His black and white work is mostly photographed of close up (macro) plants, interesting structured buildings and natural sites. In his photographs, he recorded the exact, detailed appearance of objects from the human eye. He believed that the untouched object that he is photographing does not need changing when taking the photo , as for not editing or changing the image when taken or being photographed. His eye for angles in photography was what got his work to be famous and unique in his time (1928).
ANALYSIS
These photos from Albert have the similarities of the same object repetitively seen in the image as the trees are placed roughly in the same pattern as each other and there are many of them. As well as the shoes lined up in columns and are identical to each other.
The black and white images connect in similar photography as they both have a high contrast with dark and light in the shadow and highlights in the images.
A difference in these images would be that the shoes have been created by a man to look like that in the image, they have been placed in a particular arranging to create this sequence of identical shoes in repeating lines . As for the trees which have not been touched and are all naturally placed in the snowy surrounding in the image.
