{"id":984,"date":"2009-05-31T08:18:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T15:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/05\/31\/contacts\/"},"modified":"2009-05-31T08:23:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T15:23:43","slug":"contacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/05\/31\/contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Contacts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>A forgotten technique<\/i><\/p>\n<p>One of the more fun aspects of the drudge that used to be darkroom work was making a contact sheet of your 35mm film roll.  Arraying 36 snaps on one sheet of 8&#8243; x 10&#8243; paper made for easy selection of the winners.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a forgotten technique as now we bang away, a million snaps a minute, and then examine everything on a computer screen.  Every bit as valid but far less contemplative.  And easier to miss a good one amongst all the noise.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a contact sheet from the great humorist with a Leica, Elliott Erwitt:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Erwitt_Contacts1.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"922\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the one he chose:<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/Erwitt_Contacts2.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"457\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>You can enjoy more of this sort of great learning experience by subscribing to the <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2006\/09\/04\/keld-rediscovered\/ target=_blank>Patek Philippe magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A forgotten technique One of the more fun aspects of the drudge that used to be darkroom work was making a contact sheet of your 35mm film roll. Arraying 36 snaps on one sheet of 8&#8243; x 10&#8243; paper made for easy selection of the winners. It&#8217;s a forgotten technique as now we bang away, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2009\/05\/31\/contacts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Contacts<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}