Contact Sheets

When I began taking photographs back in 1968 there was only film photography.  In order to see your images, you made a contact sheet.  You basically cut your roll of 35mm film into strips and placed them on top of a sheet of photographic paper in a frame with glass on top to press the negatives flat on the photo paper.  This was placed under the enlarger.  

With a magnifier you looked at the contact sheet to see which images you wanted to print in your darkroom.  I learned early on this was my photo history and every once in a while you would look through your contact sheets and you might discover an image you missed.  

When I was recently looking at one of my contact sheets I discovered a street photography photo that I missed.  The photograph titled Don’t Be Frightened was frame #20 and the other photograph I had printed was titled “Woman With Stretching Dog At #14.  This photo was frame #13.  It was just a few frames before.  

You can see an example of a contact sheet below.

This is an article I wrote for Photo Techniques magazine on Fuji Acros film.

I am humbled and honored to have been selected as the Grand Prize Winner, out of 30,000 talented applicants for the #80Stays Contest. Looking forward to an incredible photographic and learning experience at the workshop lead by Trey Ratcliff Queensland, New Zealand.

Print Options

This is an article I wrote for Photo Techniques of Kodak 400 T-Max-2.

In my video on View Camera Basics, I mentioned a PDF on view camera movements.  Here is the PDF of view camera movements.  Thank you for watching my videos.

When Fuji introduced the IS-1 Infrared camera I was able to borrow the camera to do an article for Photo Techniques Magazine.  It opened up a whole new world for me.  Here is the PDF of the article - Fujifilm FinePix IS-1.