Reflective Writing

I found the reflective writing lecture very helpful. Our task was to reflect on something we were not good at or something we could have done better or avoided a problem. I chose too reflect on being late for university. I find waking up on a morning extremely hard, even motivating my self too get out of bed I struggle with. This causes me to rush around and usually miss my train, which arrives at the station every hour. With the train running every hour I am either 1 hour early for my first lecture or half and hour late missing half of my lecture. I figured if I go too bed a lot earlier (9/10 o'clock rather than 12/1 o'clock)  I would then wake up at 6:30 and set off the the station at 7:15 to make the 7:44 train at Wakefield Westgate. I would then arrive at Huddersfield station for 8:15 giving me an hour gap before my lecture. I have time too grab some breakfast and a coffee and walk down too university before my 9:15 lecture. Getting in this routine will save me a lot of time instead of rushing and missing vital parts of my learning.

This excersize showed me how too apply this too my work, how changing something as simple as going to bed earlier can affect my work. Simple things such as changing the colour or a shape or the composition or even a font or font size can have a massive impact on my work bringing it too a  professional standard.

I now see how reflective writing can help a lot especially in my experimentation for example.

This is a picture I took for a project, it is not very interesting and does not show any photographic skills. There is too much going on in the image. It has no spacific focus point. Taking the picture a lot closer to the actual cup and using the rule of thirds while cropping the image will create a focus point. Maybe taking the picture in a different angle will create character to the object and using levels on photoshop will enhance the image making this cup of coffee interesting.

This is the next picture I took after my reflective writing, I took the picture closer this time and on a low angle point creating the affect of "the ultimate cup of coffee" the low angle point creates a superior feel. depth of field has shown the focus point of the image. I have also used the rule of thirds while cropping this image to create a balanced composition. I have also adjusted the levels in the image to create a balance between light and dark. I love the shade and light contrast on the coffee cup.










Remember both of these pictures are of the same coffee cup in the same place but just refining and  changing simple things like composition and camera angle can improve your work dramatically.