Reflection Work Diary

Description of shoot: 

This shoot was all focused around reflection. This meant I focused on shooting objects and beings as they are perceived on surfaces and objects.

I did this task both outside and inside. I found myself quite limited in the amount of objects with reflective surfaces when I was outside especially as the sun was not shining so there was no natural lighting which would have brightened any reflections.

Image I liked:

I took this image using a spoon that I found inside a shop. I liked how, because spoons are curved, this created a curved reflection. And also this caused the reflection to be upside down. I like the pattern and form this creates as it the reflection seems quite abstract and almost disjointed because of the curved surface that it is being reflected off. I think this creates a different perception as we wouldn't normally see the world around us in this way. And because its such a small object, it always has reflections coming off it but people never tend to focus on the image that the reflection creates and I think I have captured just that in this image.

This is an image that I took when looking into a shop window. This shows how thinking about the background and the object of the image is important. The window reflects me and other people in the street but the reflection is quite subtle. Then there is also the actual window which we can see through and it has a poster of an enlarged human figure. I think this creates quite an abstract image as its easy to focus on either the reflection or whats on the other side of the window, in real life.

Progression and image I disliked:

I think my results would have been better if I experimented more. For example a lot of my pictures are of myself/people in reflections of surfaces like the image below. In some of my pictures I did include the actual background that the image is being reflected from however in the majority I only focused on the reflected image. I think this can make the images less abstract and creative.

Images from the internet:

This is an example of an image that I found on the internet. It has the same elements that my picture of the spoon above has only with a different shaped spoon and with a different scene being reflected. However the principals are the same as the curves of the spoon make the landscape reflection appear disjointed and abnormal.