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Michael Flomen PowerPoint

Contact Sheet

Bottom (bottom): test strips Bottom (top): film sheet Middle (bottom): test strip Middle (right): small sheets Middle/Top: final contact sheet

          To make a contact sheet I first photographed a classmate (Molly) and developed the film. Then I went into the dark room to use the enlargers and actually made a contact sheet. I focused the enlarger to fit a 5' by 7' area then got out a small strip of paper and placed the film on top, and moved the cardboard on top of that to make a test strip. I made a few before deciding on how many seconds looked the best.
           After making a small strip of the desired time, I proceeded to make small strip test strips of my preferred negative. I focused the enlarger again and brought the negative carrier out into the light and inserted my negative. I made the contact sheet and put it through the chemicals and repeated this a few times until I had the desired values. Once my contact sheet had the right values, I made a full sheet, which had a rough border so we made another.
          If I were to do this project again, I wouldn't do anything differently. I like how the finals came out and how little adjustments I had to make. I demonstrated how this project was supposed to be done by making test strips of the film strip and the specific negative, then testing out the most varying color value and then finishing with a full sheet.