Before you can say how to make a contact sheet, you must be able to know what one is. So, what is a contact sheet? A contact sheet is basically a sheet full of strips of developed film. Some photographers, as I discovered when making this post, have made images via contact sheets. Pretty awesome. Take a look below.
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| Photographer Mario Zanaria created this contact sheet portrait of a model named Francesca by planning out each of the frames on a roll of film. |
"A contact sheet is a positive print of all the negative images from one film, made by a contact printing process so that all the images are the same size as the negative. A contact sheet is a useful way of seeing which are the best images on a film so you can decide which ones to make enlargements from." - Dshed.net
How to make a contact sheet:
Place your safe light on on your enlarger. This will project a square however big, onto the surface below. Place your printing paper on the surface, glossy side up. You will ideally want to be setting the enlarger at F8 and when I was making a contact sheet, I found out that 2.5 seconds was an ideal time for me. Though this could not be an appropriate time for all photos. To find out what the best time is, experiment. Place a sheet of black card over a slide and expose it to light, then move the card up another slide (leaving the slide that was just exposed to be exposed again) and so forth. When exposing your film, assure that the safe filter is removed. If you are having trouble with the film rolling upwards, then press down with a sheet of glass. This is not always the case as it is not always needed, and sometimes glass is known to cause scratches on the film. Once your film strip has been exposed onto the sheet on paper, you develop the paper.
Simple.
(I hope it's as simple as I've explained, at least.)
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