Contact sheets are positive prints from a roll of film. It can get more nuanced than that, but that’s the simple explanation. For digital photographers that don’t dabble in film too much, it’s basically like a printout of the thumbnails from a shoot.
This video is a brief introduction to contact sheets, their history, and why they’re cool to look at. The TL;DW if you have the attention span of a goldfish and can’t watch a 4min video is that by looking at a contact sheet, we get to see what the photographer decided to capture as they moved through a shoot and therefore, we get a glimpse into how they were thinking.
0:06 - What is a contact sheet?
0:20 - Why are they important?
1:07 - Historical context from film to digital
3:08 - Why do photographers like and don’t like looking at contact sheets?
3:46 - Conclusion
Are you a film or digital photographer or both? How do you use contact sheets in your own work or practice, or not? Comment below and let’s start a discussion!
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