1. UNIT 0 :: REFLECTION & INTROSPECTION
learningthroughimprovementandevaluation
tutorials: step by step procedures for using computer programs
Re-editing five old photos from last year using new skills and new
techniques.
Reflection & Introspection are key concepts which help artists grow by looking at their
previous work, analyzing it for successes and failures, and then improving this work.
Reflection is the act of mental concentration and careful consideration of the past.
Introspection is an observation or examination of one's own mental and emotional state,
mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself..
Use these ideas to think about how you create art, why you create art and what it is you
are trying to portray. Then apply these ideas to your first project.
• Collect ten photos from last year. Find the unedited versions of these photos. Decide
how you can tie these photos together to form a message, story, purpose, idea, or
overall theme. Then decide how you could represent this visually. Think about color,
contrast, composition and other editing techniques which you could use to show UNITY
between these ten photos.
<<application: actions in reflection & introspection
STEP 1: Edit one of these photos using various tools and
techniques learned last year. Remember you are
going to create UNITY through the elements and
principles
of design. As you are editing try to remember what
you
have done, what has worked and what didn’t.
STEP 2: Open a second picture.
STEP 3: WINDOW  ACTION  click on the TAB and
SELECT NEW ACTION  RECORD
STEP 4: Try to edit this second picture the same way you
edited
the first. Use the same filters, crops, adjustments
etc.
STEP 5: When you are done editing, click the STOP button
in
the actions menu.
STEP 6: Open a SECOND PHOTO. In the ACTIONS
WINDOW press PLAY. You should see all of your
“mouse clicks” replay on this new photo. This is a
simple way to recreate edits on batches of photos.
STEP 7: This function is not flawless. You may are may not
be
able to use it on all of your photos. Edit 10 photos
using this concept of applying similar effects to
each of
the photos to create unity.