Making Contact Sheets 

A contact sheet is a positive print of all the negatives on a film. Making contact sheets is useful to see which are the best images on a film so you can understand which images you want to make enlargements of. The first step of making a contact sheet is to set up the enlarger in the dark room, first of all you will start off at 1; you'll set the enlargers colours to each number by looking at the papers on the wall. You'll put the film of images in the enlarger, picking one image, then make sure by turning the enlarger light on that the photo is in focus before making. After that you'll turn the light off and with the shiny side of the contact sheet facing upwards you will place that where the picture is lighted before and set the timer to 5. With a piece of card you will cover up sections of the contact sheet and press the timer at 5 seconds about 5 times, then press the timer again exposing all of the contact sheet to light for 5 seconds. After that you will put the contact sheet in three different acids for about 1-2 minutes depending on the warmth of the acid and after that you will place the contact sheet in cold water for about 5 minutes. After that you will see the picture slightly, going outside into the light you will see the picture fully. You will see the different sections and which section was the clearest and better quality/colour. For example if section 3 was the clearest you'd go back into the dark room and make a contact sheet full all over exposing it to light for 15 seconds. Then after that you should be able to see the image all over very clear and HD quality.