Contact Sheets

Contact sheets allow people to show off how their finished photographs will look to a client/potential clients. These contact sheets are filled with all the photographs from the shoot you did and make your business or work looks a lot more professional if you were to have none.

If you don't know what a contact sheet is, think of it like a negative when you has your photographs from a camera printed and created. They're much like the brown film strip which came accompanied with the images but instead, a contact sheet shows the photograph in positive colours. Contact Sheets show all the pictures you took but in a thumbnail size, it allows for a clear display of everything you tool and if a client so wishes to, allows them to pick and choose which ones they want to order.

Here is an example for a contact sheet after a shoot was completed:

As you can see, every image taken in that particular shoot as been laid out next to eachother with nubmers next to them done by hand. That's because this contact sheet is a lot older than the modern and easier way of going about it. The names of the pictures will be automatically added when you print out or create a contact sheet of your own.






An example of my own contact sheets - 

This is one of my own created contacted sheets and shows off a quick shoot I did using a slow shutter speed to show off the effect of painting with light behind a dark background.

As you can see, the contact sheet shows off every single image taken at a thumbnail size as well as the name of the image taken. These are the default names of the files but they can be changed to whatever you like beforehand.

For every shoot I will be creating, I will accompany it with a contact sheet to be able to show all the images I took and what are my favourite and ones i've chosen to edit further.