Work Diary - Reflection

Work Diary

Evaluation

In Wednesday's session I was asked to go out and take photographs of reflection, whether that be reflection in puddles, in water or in glass and car windows. I found taking photographs of reflections in mirrors to be my favourite part of the lesson because I was able to make something in an image look as though there was two of them. This also produced symmetry in my photographs which I thought made them look creative. A lot of my straight images were of symmetry so I believe that I fulfilled the task of reflection very effectively. I did find a few things to be slightly difficult though. One of those things being that in some photos you were able to see the camera in the reflection. This is why I preferred working with reflections in mirrors because you didn't have to accidentally get the camera involved with the photograph. 

This was one of my favourite pictures that I got of my eye. I zoomed into the original picture to ensure that the reflection from the eye was the main subject of this photograph. In the white part of my eye you can see the reflection of all of my eyelashes spread right across my eyelid. This is pure natural reflection that I think is extremely effective when in a photograph. The blue and green tones of my eye also contain some reflection of my surroundings. In the reflection, the eyelashes look a lot thicker and closer together than they actually are because my eye is of a sphere shape so they curve round in the reflection. This is a distorted reflection that I wasn't able to find in puddles, only my eyeball.

This other photograph that I captured is an example of symmetry. The line distinguishing the real life from the reflection is so vague that it's difficult to tell where the refelction is coming from. I think this is a lot more photographic than having a thick bulky line going right down the middle of the photograph that lets you know where the start of the reflection is coming from. Using blue as the reflector gives the photo more colour and makes it more interesting rather than it being plain and just an ordinary reflection.

Progression

Because I really enjoyed using mirrors in Wednesday's photography session, I would include a lot of these in my future photographs if I were to focus my pictures on reflection and re-shoot. I would gather a variety of mirror shapes and sizes and use them in my photographs so that they would create more than one reflection when teamed up. I would most likely also attempt to use water/puddles of any sort in my photography because these create distorted reflections which I believe are original and creative. A picture doesn't have to be perfect to be amazing. A few of the images that have inspired me throughout the topic 'reflection' would be the ones that I have inserted below that would help me if I were to go out and re-shoot for reflection again.