In a recent Class IX Darkroom Photography class, students were making contact sheets from 35mm negatives that they had processed the week before. Students learned that a contact sheet is a same-size positive of all the negatives on one sheet of photographic paper, and that it allows the photographer to view their images in the order that they took them and select images for enlargement. Students also learned that contact sheets provide an opportunity to edit for their most successful images and think about what it is that they would like to communicate to the viewer.

In both Class IX Darkroom Photography and Upper School Photography students learn to use a manual SLR 35 mm film camera and master the basics of film processing and black-and-white printing techniques. Once students are confident about using their cameras they are encouraged to select a genre to explore which can be abstract, documentary, landscape/cityscape, portraiture, narrative or still life.