34. Minor Tasks - Contact sheet, photos selection & editing

After each photo shoot you've probably ended up with hundreds (maybe thousands!) of photos. That's perfect! Now comes the part to look at that great work and select the best images you got. Take screenshots of the folder just as a contact sheet* would be done in the past.

*see here what a contact sheet looks like:

https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2009/09/28/contactsheet_001_copy_custom-d5c047561fc7d4210774ab7eaf3bcba6b14b5558-s800-c85.jpg

Usually when shooting on film, the photographer would put all the film strips like this next to each other and use this overview to spot the most successful photos.

Now it is easier to do this digitally, as you can see them all at once in a folder like thumbnails, but also very quickly open and look at them individually in more detail.

Make a rough selection of photos you consider to be suited for your digipak/poster/film postcard/magazine article, social media page and answer the following questions:

- Why are those suited?

- Which you might use, and where in the digipak/poster/film postcard/magazine article, social media page?

- What do you like/dislike about specific photos?

- What kind of edits you are thinking to apply to them?