These are scans of my contact sheets for my final shoots.
I have marked the frames that i think are the ones i will use. Some of the frames in the contact sheets are blurry this is because the contact glass wasn’t completely flat when exposing my paper and this has caused blur.
Initially i was worried that the light leaks and defects weren’t very consistent through all the rolls of film, some rolls had been affected much more than others. I was worried that the viewer may read into it too much and think that i purposefully damaged a certain film more than another for other reasons. After speaking to Matt i was assured that it didn’t matter, it was interesting that each film is different and reflects the conditions they were left in.
Contact sheet 1
I chose one image to print in this set. This one has quite a bit of light leakage around the edges, Darren and bubbles are both visible and sharp which draws the attention to them. I like that he isn’t looking towards me in the image and is acting like I wasn’t there.
Contact Sheet 2
This film contains Steve and a Big Issue Seller (didn’t get his name).
I have chosen 1 image for the big issue seller, the image is sharp… the contact sheet doesn’t show this image well because i was exposing for the other images.
With Steve there were 2 different types of images of him. I preferred the one where he was standing up, it showed his personality much more, the way he is standing and holding himself shows he is uncomfortable. the ones were he is crouched outside a shop is showing him in a bad light, whereas with the other image i have chosen, he could be anyone not necessarily homeless, we don’t pity him in this image which is something i feel is important.
Contact sheet 3
Only 1 image is sharp out of the 2. I am planning to print my previous image of Andy from a few years ago to go along side this image. I am a bit worried that they are different formats.
Contact Sheet 4 & 5
These are the brothers that i will be presenting next to each other.
I’m not sure if i want these images to be similar to each other so i have chosen a few, I will print these and see what works best.
In contact 5 i really like the middle image but not sure if it will work with any of the contact 4 images
Alice Riddy 