‘Reflection’ Writing.

After publishing Assignment 3, The (in)Decisive Moment, I went back to re read the assignment before submitting to my tutor, in the hope I haven’t missed anything obvious. Part of every assignment is to write a reflection. I put this at the end of my assignments.

This time I feel I’ve spent more time writing reflectively than on the previous assignments. I think that may be because I found myself learning as I tried to take the photos. I also found myself thinking about my photography in a way I hadn’t before starting this course. I previously took photos of things because they looked nice, but wasn’t entirely sure how to get the best in each frame. Occasionally I got images as I imagined them, but mostly they were just ‘ok’. However, now I find myself planning the shot more and being recognising things I have learnt through this course so far such as composition. Although I may get the right shot sometimes, I still want my images to be more consistent, which will come with practice, hopefully.

When logging in to my student page I noticed a link to Andrea Norrington’s “Reflective Writing: Taking time to invest in your work.”

This article made me think about my reflective writing. I wanted to make sure this time I was answering the kind of thing expected when looking back over your own work. In particular what I’ve learnt and what I’ll take forward with me. Before reading the article I hadn’t thought too much about what reflective writing means to my studies… Other than it being necessary. Whereas now, I understand it more. Obviously I knew the underlying idea was to make me a better photographer. Now I see that I can do that by learning from my mistakes, and from what went well, to influence how I do things going forward and how I can hopefully use it to change my photography in the moment rather than looking back and thinking “should have, would have, could have”.

Reference

Norrington, A. (2020) : Reflective Writing: Taking time to invest in your work. At: https://www.oca-student.com/ (Accessed 08/06/20)