A contact sheet is basically a series of photos the same size and of them same object or thing you have photographed. These photos are small on a page for photographer after a photoshoot to look at and choose the best images from the shoot. Contact sheets can typically be scanned over quickly with are eyes. That way we can selected out the best photos compared to those which ay have not turned out the way we wanted. This is why contact sheets are useful as photographers don’t have to analysis photos one by one though a camera or on a computer.
My contact sheets will be based off Albert Renger’s work.
Contact Sheet One:
This is my first contact sheet of a mini cactus. My images relate to Alberts work as the repetition of the spikes are natural and unique. Some images I have edited to create a stronger contrast between the dark and light elements in the plant.
Contact Sheet Two:
This is my contact sheet two of shells from St.Ouens. Personally this is my favourite Contact Sheet as the shells and are all equal to each other and the lighting is perfect to identify the crevasses and little details on the shells individually. I have edited a few of these photos myself on my phone to bring out the highlights and darker shadows.
Contact Sheet Three:
In my contact sheet three i have roughly recreated the macro photography work Albert Renger does with flowers and plants. These are just flowers and palm trees in my garden. I particularly like the palm tree photos as one I have edited to stand out and have a good tonal range of light to dark.
Contact Sheet Four:
My final contact sheet are photos of basic colour pencils. Lined up evenly and with a back based background these photos came out well when turned into black and white.
Out of all my photos I took from this paper photoshoot this is my favourite as the tonal range from light to dark really emphasises the photo and gives it purpose. The strong shadow created with a torch contrasts well with the white background the scrunched up paper ball is set on. Even though this image is taken on an iPhone, I think the minimal editing such as lightening the highlighted bits of the paper is a pretty good quality photo to admire.
Albert Renger was a German photographer who started photography at the age of twelve. In 1928 he published a book called “The World Is Beautiful.” This book had the best collection of his photos (one hundred) of natural and man made objects.
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.
