Contact sheets display a series of thumbnails from a photoshoot, these were mainly used when film photography was more popular. they are an easy way to visualise all photos at once and allows you to select your more interesting photos simply.

Thomas Lang:

Thomas Lang is a portrait photographer who was born in Paris, France. His set of photographs from his series “Gesalt” was produced in 2018 as a form of displaying his portrait photography in an abstract form. He fractures the face of his model into a mosaic-like puzzle. Here, he uses contact sheets as a way of displaying a whole photograph in sections.

My example of a contact sheet:

This is an example of a contact sheet from my project of creating a response to “The Formal Elements”. Here I have used the shape tool in photoshop to highlight my most successful and least successful images from the photoshoot.

This way of using contact sheets easily allows me to view a multitude of photos at once and pick out the photos that instantly grab my attention over others. I can them highlight them for future reference to show why I liked them, and why I thought they were more successful.