What is reflective writing and why we use it?
The OCA reminds us that as we develop and photographers we must not only develop strong technical skills but we should use then effectively to promote our ideas and intentions or (practical) work should reflect what we have learned in terms of technique and conceptual intentions.
Self-reflective writing helps us to gather and process our thoughts and ideas as much as it illustrates to our tutor and assessors that we were not just blindly clicking away with our camera, i.e. it allows them to understand our intention, how we intended to carry them out and how the results met or failed to meet our expectations.
Reflective writing is we should step back a little and be critical, (although not necessarily negative) thoughtful and reflective. Our writing should be factual of how our technical decisions, ideas and contextualisation’s have come together with each project and assignment. And we should give reasons why we feel our work is successful or unsuccessful.