Completion of Part Two - Elements of Design

Again, there has been a bit of a time lapse since my last learning journal entry but, as before, I have been doing quite a lot of photography in and amongst a quite heavy workload and considerable travel for work.

I completed the remaining exercises in the unit looking mainly at shape (including triangles) and rhythm and pattern and have also completed the Assignment for this unit (which will feature separately).

I have been aware of the use of implied triangles in some of the work I had been doing around portraiture and especially when there are three or more people in the group. The exercise to take a series of photographs that represented real and implied triangles wasn't quite so easy. However, these are included on my Flikr site.

The final exercise concerned rhythm and pattern which I enjoyed doing. For rhythm, I spotted some tall grasses blowing in the wind outside our house. I liked the way that each blade of the grass flower moved together with each other as if they were one. I took a number of shots of these but the best, which I feel gives a great sense of rhythm is below.

For Pattern, we were staying at a rented house in the Cotswolds and one of the rooms had a book case in loaded with books of all sizes. I took a number of photographs cropped tightly into the book case and making sure that the edges of the case did not show. Again, I was pleased with the result (below).

Overall, the unit has again helped to observe more closely my surroundings and think constantly as to what it would look like as a photograph as well as improving my overall composition technique.