{"id":13549,"date":"2014-07-16T08:26:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T12:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/?p=13549"},"modified":"2022-07-28T19:02:37","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T23:02:37","slug":"making-virtual-contact-sheets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johnpaulcaponigro.com\/blog\/13549\/making-virtual-contact-sheets\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Virtual Contact Sheets"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Using Smart Collections in Lightroom speeds up the process of gathering and revisiting these images. I use Smart Collections\u20151 Star, 2 Stars, 3 Stars, 4 Stars, 5 Stars, and 3+ Stars. These Smart Collections are critical for focusing and accelerating my visual thought process, helping me to make the most of a location in a short amount of time. I can see what\u2019s working and what\u2019s not, correct mistakes, figure out what it\u2019s going to take to up my game, identify missing shots, and seek out the ones that will bring a set of images together. Smart Collections serve as a chronology of all the ranked images I\u2019ve made. They create a unique kind of journal. Most importantly, they start the process of assembling bodies of work.<\/p>\n

I use Collections for assembling like images to develop projects, typically grouping selected images by location or theme. Unlike Smart Collections, I find Collections\u2019 support for a manual sort order essential. Manual sort orders enable me to create image pairs and sequences, continuities that bind groups of images together into bodies of work. (For more on Continuity, Bodies of Work, and Developing Personal Projects, download my free PDFs at Creativity \/ Storytelling resources\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Unlike when I used film, where I had to make physical contact sheets to select images, I rarely print my virtual contact sheets. It\u2019s curious to call them by the traditional name \u201ccontact sheets,\u201d because they\u2019re not made by contacting film to paper. But, they\u2019re no less essential to my creative process; if anything, they\u2019re more important. Virtual Contact Sheets allow me to edit images at higher levels of thinking. I even use them to select and sequence images for slideshows, exhibits, and books.<\/p>\n

I save virtual contact sheets, and sometimes I even save different states of a single contact sheet. I take screenshots of Lightroom\u2019s display of my curated Collections. So many people requested to see them that I started sharing them on my blog. Having to make remarks about my virtual contact sheets helped me obtain an even better understanding of my creative process and my results.<\/p>\n

See more Contact Sheets here.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Read more about my\u00a0Contact Sheets on B&H.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Read about Seth Resnick’s Contact Sheets on B&H.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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