Film Contact Sheet
A contact sheet of six film frames that fills its grid completely, where the exposure printed under each frame matches the light in it. Six fields.
We made two examples: a daylight roll of Portra, and a tungsten night roll on Cinestill. The grid and the numbering follow the same rule, and the exposures are completely different because the light is too.
You get a contact sheet of six frames in three columns and two rows, with no frame left on its own and numbers in sequence. The exposure printed under each frame matches its light: fast speeds and small apertures in sun, slow speeds and wide apertures in the dark. The sprocket holes are drawn differently from image to image, and the date sometimes drops off a frame or two.
Generated for this library
Input
Roll Vibary's first open build week, one Thursday
Stock KODAK PORTRA 400 · frames 21 to 26 · 18.07.2026
Wide the street at seven, flat grey · the street at dusk,
windows lit
Detail a hand on a trackpad under a lamp · proofs by a
window in bright side light
Human two people over one screen, lit by it · someone
carrying a poster out into full sun
Colour warm neutral, green shadows, soft highlights
Returned 1 sheet · 2:3 · six frames, three columns, two rows
grid six frames fill the page evenly, thin white gutters,
no orphan and no empty corner
numbers 21 through 26, left to right and down, one roll
exposures each frame's stamp follows its own light - 1/60 f/2 on
the lamplit hand, 1/500 f/8 on the sunlit doorway,
1/15 f/1.8 on the screen-lit pair. No two alike unless
their light is alike
borders black frame edges with sprocket hints, the stock name
in amber at the top, number at the right, exposure and
date along the base
colour one roll's palette throughout: warm neutrals, green in
the shadows, highlights rolling off rather than clippingYou fill in 6 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The roll
- 2The stock and the numbers
- 3Two wide frames, with their light
- 4Two detail frames, with their light
- 5Two human frames, with their light
- 6The colour of the roll
Film Contact Sheet
What this makes
A contact sheet of six film frames that fills its grid completely, where the exposure printed under each frame matches the light in it. Six fields.
The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.
How to use it
- Copy the whole template with the button above.
- Replace the six FIELDS lines. Give each frame its light — bright, dim, backlit, lamplit — and let the printed exposure follow from that.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the sheet.
- Check the numbers and the corners: consecutive frames, no empty cell. Then check one dark frame against one bright one — if they share an exposure, the strip is decorated rather than shot.
What you swap
- The roll
- Vibary's first open build week, shot over one Thursday
- The stock and the numbers
- KODAK PORTRA 400 · frames 21 to 26 · 18.07.2026
- Two wide frames, with their light
- the studio street at seven in the morning, flat grey light, long exposure · the same street at dusk with the windows lit, wide open and dim
- Two detail frames, with their light
- a hand on a trackpad under a desk lamp, warm and close, wide open · a stack of printed proofs by a window, bright side light, stopped down
- Two human frames, with their light
- two people leaning over one screen, lit only by it, very wide open · someone carrying a rolled poster out the door into full sun, stopped right down
- The colour of the roll
- warm neutral, slightly green in the shadows, soft highlight roll-off
Before it runs
- Six frames, or eight. Seven cannot fill a grid, and the odd one out is the first thing anyone sees.
- A light for every frame, described. The exposure printed under each one has to follow from it, and inventing both is how these sheets end up stamped 1/125 f/2.8 six times.
- Subjects that move through something. Six views of the same tent is a repeated frame, not a roll.
When to reach for it
For a trip, a day, a season, a project's first week — anything better told as several photographs than one. The style is easy to render and fails in two boring ways: a grid with a hole in it, and every frame stamped with the same invented exposure.
What changes
- One sheet whose grid divides evenly — six or eight frames, never seven — so the page has no orphan and no empty corner.
- Each frame carries an exposure that agrees with its own light: a firelit close-up and a noon ridge do not share a shutter speed.
- Frame numbers run consecutively, so the sheet reads as one roll rather than a selection.
- The six subjects step through the day rather than repeating it, with a stated mix of wide, detail and human.
- One film stock's colour across all six, so the sheet holds together as a single roll shot in one afternoon.
Pairs with
- Diagonal Split Macro PosterA macro poster split on a diagonal — backlit translucent matter on one side, deep shadow on the other — with every text assigned to the side that can actually carry it. Seven fields.
- Photo With Glowing Drawn FigureA real photograph with one glowing hand-drawn figure living inside it — standing on a real surface, touching a real object, and placed in the quietest part of the frame. Six fields.
- Street Photo With Five PinsA wide daylight photograph of a real place with five small pins on it, each naming something actually visible in the frame rather than floating over it. Seven fields.