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Contact Sheets

The document discusses contact sheets, which display every image shot from a photo shoot in a grid, allowing photographers to select images. It provides examples of iconic photographers like Robert Frank and Irving Penn using contact sheets to select images for projects from thousands of shots. Students are instructed to create their own contact sheets from a shoot, mark their favorite 3 images, edit those images, and share one to a gallery with peer feedback. Next week they will evaluate the shoot and images.

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Contact Sheets

The document discusses contact sheets, which display every image shot from a photo shoot in a grid, allowing photographers to select images. It provides examples of iconic photographers like Robert Frank and Irving Penn using contact sheets to select images for projects from thousands of shots. Students are instructed to create their own contact sheets from a shoot, mark their favorite 3 images, edit those images, and share one to a gallery with peer feedback. Next week they will evaluate the shoot and images.

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MAGNUM

CONTACT
SHEETS
PROFESSIONAL
PRACTICE
click the image
The image contains a link to Inge
Morath's work on the Magnum website
TODAY'S LESSON
BRIEF
INTRODUCTION
1. Contact Sheets - Purpose &
Professional Practice
2. Selecting images
WHAT IS 1 DISPLAYS EVERY IMAGE SHOT FROM A SHOOT

2 USUALLY BETWEEN 2O - 30 IMAGES PER SHEET

A 3
HISTORICALLY USED TO CONVERT NEGATIVES
ONTO A VIEWABLE WORKING DOCUMENT

CONTACT 4 ALLOWS THE SELECTION PROCESS TO BEGIN 'THE


EDIT'

SHEET?USES AND
PURPOSE 5 CAN BE USED FOR ARCHIVING PURPOSES
CONTACT SHEETS IN
PRACTICE click the image
The image contains a link to
Robert Frank's The Americans

The contact sheet is first and foremost the When photographer Robert Frank was working on
photographer’s logbook, a decision-making aid for his iconic book, The Americans (1958), he shot
the selection and indexing for archive 27,000 frames and ultimately published only 83—
it shows the failed steps taken en route to the end leaving the rest in a gridded sequence of outtakes
product with all its errors, blunders, blind alleys – on his contact sheets. And Irving Penn, a Vogue
and lucky coincidences photographer, often used up to ten rolls of film to
get a single portrait for the magazine.
Martin Parr
Last Resort (1986)

LOOK WORKFLOW
AT
THIS
EXAM-
PLE Example 
Martin Parr
Shoot for his book Last Resort
(1986)
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The image contains a link to
Martin Parr's LAST RESORT
Visual Arts
Eastside Learning Academy

CREATING A Using Photoshop or Windows


viewer

CONTACT SHEET
OPTION 1 - PHOTOSHOP OPTION 2 - FOLDER VIEW
CLICK ON THE CONTACT SHEET BELOW 1. OPEN THE FOLDER WHERE YOUR
TO WATCH THE TUTORIAL IMAGES ARE LOCATED
2. INCREASE ICON SIZE TO
APPROPRAITE VIEWING WITH
AROUND 20 IMAGES SHOWING
3. SCREENSHOT THE IMAGES
(INCLUDING THE FILENAME)
PEER FEEDBACK
Work in small groups (3 or 4)
TEAMWORK

Which images do you like the best and why?


How did the image make you feel when you first saw it?
What is great about it? - technical, camera techniques,
composition, lighting style, etc
What could make it better?
MARK UP YOUR
FAVOURITES
Using a Mark Up tool identify your
favourite images
Max 3!
Then edit the 3 images -
crop/brightness/contrast etc.
Use any software available to you
IF YOU NEED TO
EDIT ON A
MOBILE
DEVICE...
Snapseed is a free app and used by many
professionals for quick social media editing
TASKS 1 CREATE YOUR CONTACT SHEETS

TO 2 MARK UP TO IDENTIFY BEST 3 SHOTS

COMPLETE 3 EDIT THE 3 FINAL IMAGES TO CREATE FINISHED


PIECES

BY NEXT 4 SHARE YOUR FAVOURITE IMAGE IN THE GALLERY

MONDAY 5 ADD ALL OF THE ABOVE TO SWAY INCLUDING


YOUR PEER FEEDBACK
NEXT WEEK
EVALUATION
REFLECTION
PROBLEM SOLVING
Evaluating the shoot and final images

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