Contact Sheets

Laika, thanks for posting it! Number 31 looks interesting.
 
I am starting to get organized. I scanned this whole roll, here is the index print, next I have to try to make a digital contact sheet.
 
On my way back from the fair on Saturday, I stopped by the grocery store, which has a photolab. Before getting some food for supper, I dropped off the film I had shot (Kodak T400), asked for negs only - guy says, "No prints? It'll be done in 7 minutes".

After supper I scan them with my cheap HP 4470c scanner (6 strips, 5 minutes a strip) and cut them into individual frames and do quick "levels" correction with GIMP. This is the contact sheet that XnView produced.

The nicer ones I touched up the dust spots and added some USM and posted here!
 
I like contact sheets. They give a snapshot of the photog's "day", an insight in his/her interests, and the variation of shots makes them interesting "reads". That's why I like cataloging programs (ThumbsPlus is what I use): the general catalog view is just one big contact sheet. And since I just name all my shots in a YEAR-MM-DD_<sequence_number>.<jpg/tiff> format and don't catalog them by subject or so, I get to see all of my shooting sessions as one giant contact sheet.

It's really nice to look at the posted contact sheets. They bring me a little closer to y'all's personal lifes. Thanks.
 
Another one from last week, still have to scan each frame at full res though. Anyway the best method I've found is to scan two whole 6 frame strips each time (at 600 dpi) and put together the 3 documents after that.



I resized the resulting document to 2500 wide and 300 dpi, that should give a nice print but my ancient 440... well... :rolleyes:
 
Just another one for the record...



This one shows also that the Canon 50/1.8 (mine at least) is prone to suffer from flare/ghosting problems under some light conditions, easily seen with those rain pics where the sky was uniformly white...
 
Well, it certainly has some oil on the blades but looks very clean otherwise, no haze that I can see even under a strong penlight, and that kind of flare was almost always to front light situations with a diffuse source, as even direct sun pictures (frames 6-7) present a different kind of flare.
 
Another one, half forgotten in the hard drive !



True that they are powerful memory triggers, I'm laughing myself remembering this dinner from last September :D

More contact sheets anyone ? C'mon, don't be shy :)
 
I also did some digital contact sheets, but I'm kinda lazy with it coz it actually takes a bit of time. I used to place the negatives on a flatbed and then put an a4 sized light table on it in order to have a bigger light source than it's standard one. Here's a result of two's stitched together afterwards.


 
Here are the first two rolls from my MP3. Scanned from the 8 1/2 x 11" RC print.
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