For my photography independent study, I was asked to create a web page to place on the school’s web server so that student work could be highlighted. Rather than creating some sort of simple gallery, I wanted to create the illusion that the website was itself a contact sheet (used by photographers to see all of their photos from a roll of film at once). A little bit of manipulation of a scanned contact sheet gave me the general idea of what I was going for. I had to tweak the contrast and colors a little to get it to look better, and some elements had to be moved around, so it’s not exactly what a real contact sheet looks like, but very close.
Ultimately, it all boiled down into a single frame that just surrounds each thumbnail. This allows for much easier web templating with the file in applications like Picasa and other photo-organizing software. The page, currently being employed for the school’s photography web page that I designed, is viewable here, and you can see what it looks like with other images below:
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