Marking a Contact Sheet

Video Transcript

"So again one of the most important things about doing dark room photography really is making a contact sheet, and one of the things I enjoy the most is taking my loop and looking over my contact sheet to see what my images look like on a piece of paper rather than looking at them on the light table. One thing that I do in my, I guess, work flow is that I get a China marker. It's very inexpensive. A few dollars art store, photography store, and I look at my images and I go over what image I want to print and what images maybe I don't want to spend too much time printing. These markers are great because you can just sort of mark which one. Sometimes I'll even mark them in succession of which ones I think should be printed first. I usually go A, B, C, D. A being the one I want to print first which I think might be the best image. I just go down the line like that, and as I was saying before, I learned a lot about the way I take pictures by looking at negatives like this especially in the order that I shot them. I see if I look left or right. Do I hold my camera like this? Do I go like this? What do I do? So this is how you would start to look at a contact sheet when make your print."