VISU1311-Project 1 Reflection: Shelby Charette

After finishing my project and going through the entire presentation process over the critiques, I realized I spent too much time on trying to capture the Gestalt principles in my images, rather than taking images and applying principles to those images. When taking pictures, I tried finding examples of images that would reflect continuity and repetition, and my photos ended up not being the best, but I felt like they did look better in a group, and some definitely stood out more. I feel like I took the project a little too literal though, and after watching the presentations of my classmates, I realized that was not the objective for our project. Overall, I took the project from a more literal perspective instead of a creative perspective, and could have done a lot better if I knew to be more creative with it. I learned to not take it so seriously, and to have fun with my projects while also trying to complete the assignment. Altogether, the critique helped me somewhat break out of my comfort zone, and let me explore and try new things with my projects. At first I was afraid to be critiqued because I have never had someone look at my work before and tell me where I needed work, but critiques are there to help us grow, improve our work, and learn from our mistakes and I feel as if the critique was very helpful to me and helped guide me to where I should be heading.