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Had a look on the search facility and couldnt find a general share thread for contact sheets, is it a bit cheeky a new member starting such a thing? (some forums are funny that way). If its cool, join in, if not, hey, heres some of my contact sheets ;) One thing I find fasinating is looking at the contact sheets from photographers, shows even more of the story :geek:

first few are 35mm from a long term project i'm doing with the subject of closed rural schools, I had started it on 35mm as part of my college course, but reshooting them over the next few months on medium format. Sadly 2 of the locations have been leveled over the past month:

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The next couple are on 120 film:

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all comments appreciated.
 
I think that this is a thread for the guys that actually specialise or at least have some knowledge of the F&C side of photography (y) but I'm sure they will enjoy this thread (y)

I'm sure that they will add something to this thread soon (y)

Welcome to TP :wave: the best photography forum on the web (y)

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Hi Jonny, great idea for a thread, something I can't believe hasn't cropped up before. You need to get the red felt tips out for the real old school contact sheet look.

It looks like there's some interesting stuff on those, particularly the second. If you're into film stuff don't forget to head on up the the "film and conventional" forum, don't tell everyone but it's the best bit (y)

Look forward to seeing some bigger sets of your shots
 
Wow, it's refreshing to see something like that on here. I love looking at contact sheets, especially other people's (because mine are rubbish of course :D) - really gives you an insight into how other photographers work. I'd recommend the Magnum Contact Sheets book, it's absolutely fascinating to see what goes on 'behind the scenes' of the photographs I've admired for some time.

-J
 
It's a fantastic book, my daughter bought me it for Christmas.
 
I love contact sheets, I always made contact sheets to view my photographs with a lupe to decide which ones I would print. I hope I can get access to a darkroom to add some of my own! I really like #3 in the second contact sheet. Keep posting!
 
How did I miss this thread first time round? It must have sneaked under the radar, there must have been another contact sheet related thread somewhere as I remember buying the Magnum Contact Sheets book about February last year.

I'll have it dig out some of my old contacts although I seem to remember them being a bit discoloured last time I saw them.
 
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Made a post about this exact thing yesterday, glad someone BUMPED this one!

Will post some of mine soon.
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Contact sheets can be fascinating I really like way they show the way shots evolve.
 
OK I knew I had something somewhere. This is almost certainly both off the point and relatively uninteresting, as well as being completely cock-eyed. But here's a "contact sheet" from the one roll I pt through the 6*9 folder I had in Australia (which I think I gave away to charity when I got back here, d'uh).



As you can see, it's a real jumble. What makes it a little bit interesting, is that I didn't have a medium format scanner at the time. So I laid the negatives out on the scanner from an ancient Dell all-in-one we had at the time, and scanned at the highest resolution. Then I got a copy of gimp and inverted the negatives. General wisdom is that you can't scan negatives on an all-in-one printer/scanner, you need one of the more expensive kind that shines a light through. But it certainly worked well enough for me to reccognise some of the scenes, including the party with the whole lamb barbecuing (under the house), the waterfalls at Morialta, and the archery at a football ground up in the Adelaide Hills (that one's upside down!).
 
OK, so here's an attempt at a virtual contact sheet. The project was my first week of the 2013 52, at that stage intended to be fully on film (I later relaxed that and did some on newfangled digi stuff), and the theme was "Sin". This isn't all the shots I took, and it is from 3 different rolls of film, but it does include all the shots I thought were possibilities:



The first shot I posted was the third one above, the mono montage for "gluttony"; next was the Austen Pride and Prejudice book. But I wasn't satisfied with them, and eventually found some graffiti on a local railway bridge including the word "sin". I reckoned this was a double interpretation, both literal and metaphoric (if graffiti itself is a sin!). The mono version didn't work, and I eventually chose the first of the colour versions (which involved climbing halfway up the embankment and taking the shot from the middle of a bramble patch!)

Is that the sort of thing you had in mind, Jordon?
 
I'm a fan of looking at contact sheets too. I always do a sheet for every roll of film I develop. This is one from a studio shoot a few weeks ago for my evening class. We have to submit the contact sheets for all photos taken towards the assignment,


contact sheet by SteveGam, on Flickr
 
Contact sheet from 1989 before I got a dedicated contact sheet mount hence the rather jumbled and haphazard appearance. Shots of Docklands, the Thames Barrier, the Lloyds building, a few other random eart end views and a couple of selfies taken in the old Photographer's Gallery in Gt Newport Street. Taken on Ilford FP4 an Olympus OM1 & 50mm lens, cant remember what it was processed in but would have been the stock solution supplied at PEL.


London 1989 Contact-1 by Raglansurf, on Flickr

And another, this time a portrait shoot for my college course, it was for a magazine style shoot. I've never been particularly comfortable taking portraits and I managed to convince Dennis, one of my lecturers to sit for me. You can see the one I chose and it does look quite good at that size, unfortunately once blown up to magazine size you can see that I missed focus and rather than his eyes his ear is perfectly sharp.


Dennis 1989 Contact-1 by Raglansurf, on Flickr
 
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Steve said:
I'm a fan of looking at contact sheets too. I always do a sheet for every roll of film I develop. This is one from a studio shoot a few weeks ago for my evening class. We have to submit the contact sheets for all photos taken towards the assignment,


contact sheet by SteveGam, on Flickr
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The one you highlighted is definitely a winner, cracking shot and ineresting to see you work through the options of posing and lighting set ups.
 
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